Registers of Loss

My work takes
the nature of interactive, collaborative and multidisciplinary. I work
across several art fields, including among others literary (fictions,
novels, essays poetry, play, short stories, songs…), musical
(composition, singing, reciting, mbira, marimba, keyboards, a little
guitar…), and visual (drawings, paintings, photography, collages,
mixed media, installation etc…) I am interested in connection,
convergence, community and cooperation, following disparate sometimes
disfigured experiences, seeing how they can come together or shy away
from each other to create new wholes.

The baobab trees are
ancient trees, some might be thousands years old, imagine the people who
have stayed in these dwellings, who have ate the fruits of these trees,
who have used its leaves as relish(we create mashed okra relish with
baobab leaves), the ailments treated by its buck….every part of this
succulent tree is useful. In this photo journey I learned a lot more
about these beautiful souls: they have a tendency to create musical
lines, mostly linear, it’s like one tone starting it, fading and letting
the next tone to take over and this will fade and let another tone to
take over, such that you can see the lines, how they conjoin to create
music beyond human understanding. And most of the Baobabs, I realized,
inhabit the same place in numbers, and usually they are on high grounds,
like Gods who love elevated dwellings, and they look down upon other
small humans (small trees, humans etc…), but there are also some
singular baobabs that inhabit lower grounds and most of these are
solitary and from my memory growing up here, these don’t bear fruits.
And whilst I was photographing the Baobabs several story strands in my
head converged around one far much more important issue, the issue of
Climate Change and Global Warming. In Registers of Loss I
encourage working together as human beings to arrest Global warming and
climate change the way the baobabs work together to communicate in
linear notes, or in community thoughts.