All Things New

'All things new’ is a new body of work I’ve been working on for about 2 years. In this new work I examine the  sometimes fractured and fragile relationship we as humans  have with the land we live on.

The ‘Resource Curse’ is a term I have come across that encapsulates my concerns around the exploitation of resource rich countries. Sadly the richest countries are also the poorest.

 Zimbabwe and many other African countries are rich in minerals and resources that over time have been exploited. The earth groans as the communities and their people feel the repercussions of this imbalance. Crops fail, mostly because of unusual weather patterns, water is polluted, soil is depleted and the list goes on.

In this work I am interested in how disrupting the earths surface brings an imbalance between the coexistence of humans and the earth. In my art I draw from my childhood memories of growing up in Zimbabwe. I remember playing with the earth and the smell of rain falling on parched earth and the dust rising up.

I want to immerse the viewer in the same experience, using earth, smell and rain water. I want to place us on the earths surface to navigate and experience it in a new way.