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revelations
Make warmth for yourself (detail), 2022
Fabric installation
Where we are scattered, 2021
Felted curtain insulation, yarn, paper and felt
Bado, Tunapishana (Still, we miss each other), 2021
Felt, calico, paper and yarn
Preoccupations, 2021
Felted curtain insulation, yarn, paper and felt
Zaliwa - Performance shot, 2021
image curtesy of Villa Mondriaan
Zaliwa Costume
Made as part of an exhibition centred around the theme of foreigners, and the "alien". Zaliwa is a costume that was birthed with water and a poem. She symbolises the harmonious contradictions of nature, like the whale shark, that is an anomaly of both a shark and a whale. However within human identity politics these contradictions are hardly ever harmonized or accepted.
Although we are a part of nature, we live parallel to it.
Zaliwa is a hybrid manifested idea of what it may look like to re-textualize and recontextualize skin.
Although we are a part of nature, we live parallel to it.
Zaliwa is a hybrid manifested idea of what it may look like to re-textualize and recontextualize skin.
Zaliwa Close up
Wool, plastic, calico, yarn, organza and metal
Sneeze, 2021
The Death Coat
Cotton, Acrylic, Newspaper, Plastic
Belonging, 2018
Wooden Board, Nails, Acrylic Yarn, Passport Pages
preoccupies stills.jpg
TBA-1.jpg
Together, but Apart
Clay, acrylic yarn
ANSA XI, 2018
Novamara XII, 2017
Minawewe III, 2016