Well-worn steps pour out of an open doorway of a red mud and plaster house in Agadez, Niger. I made a sketch for this picture in 2001 but just painted it — for want of a simple thing to do while I waited for something else to dry enough to continue. I had gone to Agadez, a market town and jumping off point for Sahara expeditions and migrants on their way to Libya and beyond, to study the way ofRead more