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I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

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I keep things moving along with a seriously loving, caring, and brilliant man, a fierce group of friends - and really strong coffee.

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My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.

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For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.

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I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world.

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Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.

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When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent.

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Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself within the elaborate structure of patriarchy.

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Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical.

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If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That's my philosophy.

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Biography

Nationality: Kenyan

Type: Artist

Born: June 22nd, 1972

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