Exhibits & Events

"Rondo, the shona term for clay, a word taught to me upon inquiring about the term for ochre in my native language. Rondo is the colours of the people, all people, the colours of their lands, the colours of their pasts and their futures. Rondo is an indicator of environmental change, from early stages of succession to the creek sides of fully grown forests in the stabilization stage, and of constant human presence extracting and exposing elements that contribute to its richness.  

This research delves into the significance of soil, ivhu, and the project is a visual representation of my field notes. Rondo is the type of soil, in all its different colours, that I managed to grind up and turn into a watercolour paint from foraged rocks. The lichens represent one of the many different ways rocky surfaces start to get broken down, as they are among early succession plants, into the soils we see today. These lichens are Lichens of the West Indies from the New York Botanical Garden’s online herbarium collection."