Patience · Cameroon · Africa
The Seated Elder
Original proverb · Français (tradition bamiléké)
« Le vieillard assis voit plus loin que le jeune debout. »
Translation
A seated elder sees farther than a standing youth.
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Meaning
Experience grants a vantage that vigor alone cannot: patience sees what haste overlooks.
Cultural context
A proverb common in the highlands of Cameroon, where the elders' word opens village councils.
Design story
A low horizon line and a seated figure: the whole shirt becomes the distance he contemplates.
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