Artist Statement.

2D and 3D works of mixed media including clay, found objects and ink on old calender.

We each are so unique, and yet at the same time a part of a rich diverse tapestry of life. 

Yet we often struggle to accept ourselves as unique beings and instead we imagine the “other” is living the kind of life we want.

In this work I am playing with the different aspects of life that each creature yearns to be…. believing that if they were these creatures they’d have the strengths and attributes required to live life fully.

I hope the work, though actually reveals that in the process of identifying with their creature, they see that they already have aspects of that creature within themselves.

After all, we are all ultimately from the same beginnings though we know not how or where!

The sculptures names are Swahili for each of the characteristics they yearn for. As an Irish white child growing up in Kenya, I yearned to be a black African. Failing to see that black or white Irish or African I had the aspects of life I admired in others in myself. Perhaps too all the different aspects of ourselves and others are connected by love (upendo).

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