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photos /Gabriela Fullon
A short story: One afternoon many years ago while in Karatina, Kenya someone called out twiga as I was walking by. Later that day I was told twiga is the name for giraffe in Swahili. Though explained, I wasn't sure how to take the comment until weeks later when I saw a jenny of giraffes in the savanna. Truly, there is nothing like seeing animals roam free. I remember thinking how graphic their coats are, how soulful their eyes, how sway their gait is until they need to run at top speed powered by their long legs and neck. What a perspective they have being tall with a keen sense of vision. I decided to take the comment as a compliment, and many years on, to name my studio Twiga Works.
SUsan e Wilcox
I am a photographer attempting to evoke feelings of memory and meaning by capturing how we live in and create our worlds as expressed in and through quotidian moments, spaces and objects. I'm drawn to naturally, oddly occurring tableaus, juxtapositions, patterns, textures, and to the stories about the randomness of life they depict. I am a witness to what may seem mundane but convey depth, humor, realness of people, places and things.
I am a traveller who continually encounters and considers ideas about place and home through experiences of living on settled land and journeying around the world.
I am a designer that uses graphic language and textiles to create aesthetic solutions, simplify complex concepts, and give joy.
I believe we need bread and roses — air, water and art — seeing endless, mind broadening, spirit moving examples of this in communities under-sung and underrepresented. Toni Morrison said, Art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be.
Aché,
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