https://www.mouminatouthiaw.com/writing daily 0.75 2026-10-18 https://www.mouminatouthiaw.com/writing/artist-spotlight-chelenge monthly 0.5 2024-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/5e5b5d90-b109-4624-9e7d-070489c76425/chelenge10.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism - Chalenge Van Rampleberg is a beloved contemporary Kenyan visual artist celebrated for her sculpting, printmaking and painting. On November 2nd, 2023 the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute opened its doors to exhibit her exceptional body of work in the solo exhibit titled, ‘The Long Way Home’. For the very first time, Chelenge exhibited artworks inclusive of her nearly four decade-long career. Chelenge blends enigmatic and familiar shapes in her sculptures which illuminate interwoven expressions of motherhood, ecological connection, and Africanity, to actively engage viewers in deep inspection of collectivity, and engage critique of white-capitalist-patriarchy. Her wood sculptures in “Long Way Home” reference these recurring themes and in doing so, join in conversation with AfroWomanist Artivism that advocates for equity, audacious love and ecoharmony from the perspectives of women of the African Diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/c781e88f-9d12-42ea-9787-f3944d781ba6/chelenge9.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism - i am accused of tending to the past Lucille Clifton i am accused of tending to the past as if I made it, as if i sculpted it with my own hands. i did not. this past was waiting for me when I came, a monstrous unnamed baby, and i with my mother’s itch took it to breast and named it History. she is more human now, learning language everyday, remembering faces, names and dates. when she is strong enough to travel. on her own, beware, she will. from her collection, Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/d4f86cdb-b836-48fb-a2a6-31d317770d06/IMG_7758+3.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism - homage to my hips. Lucielle Clifton these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don’t fit into little petty places. these hips are free hips. they don’t like to be held back. these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips. I have known them to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/86173b43-7e41-44a8-b7ac-52064cc94b5b/chelenge1.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism - The Jacaranda wood sculpture, Elephant Woman, made by Chelenge in 2004, is a figure where light and shadow direct viewers to consider the intertwined postures of ecological justice and AfroWomanism. On one side, light hits the shapes of a breast and a large elephant trunk; on the other side, shadow conceals a large eye which, in its shelter, sees viewers before we see it. While the eye subverts the passive spectator, the proportions and protrusion of both trunk and breast become phallic objects that castrate the poaching gaze of white-capitalist-patriarchy. Carved hips are balanced opposite to the trunk, and the leading lines of the etched braids create visual harmony and asymmetrical balance in the sculpture. As the line of vision moves from top to bottom, Elephant Woman stands as an Artivist exclamation of AfroEcoWomanism to forefront the perspectives of African women in critically and creatively confronting empirical capitalist regimes for their exploitations of both women and the environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1717836830419-JUXH3W7Z1R2JKQB24NU8/chelenge2.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1716036901962-88JH1JGXZLAYQKBCKOOB/chelenge4.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1716036894809-WMGIUE7HZ75AU3DG4KT7/chelenge3.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1716043346428-WHF2FYOSNVYI3G0KN5ST/theman2.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1716038719511-VFHWQHLCXCR449Y3TZX3/theman1.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1716038732660-F9RFRA48GYS8TORAMOG0/chelenge6.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1716043248344-2H1ISINZ4ZWEWJ4L56VE/chelenge7.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1716043248274-624ITZATMIGJJCT2X3ZA/chelenge8.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1716043377215-54VD1G1EW89SQF2J6A2L/chelenge7.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1717967216431-CP88OSJ8PBG76XJX0P4V/chelenge19.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism - On the Chair of Love (Kenya Kiti cha Upendo) 2018 Woodcut Print on Paper (Chapa ya mbao kwenye karatasi) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1717967216557-FC7OJSVWVSVU9B0EKA1V/chelenge13.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism - Happy With Music (Kufurahia Muzak) 1992 Oil on Paper (Rangi za mafuta kwenye karatasi) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1717967219328-ZE04SW6B84R9B63FTHSL/chelenge5.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism - Loving Them the Way They Are (Kuwapenda Jinsi Walivyo) 1995 Woodcut Print on Paper (Chapa ya mbao kwenye karatasi) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/8505337a-207a-414f-99df-a837ac3c4ef2/chelenge17.jpg WRITING - With my Mother’s Itch : SHAPEin’ AfroWomanist Artivism - Make it stand out My Life’s Journey (Safari ya Maisha Yangu), 2022, Acrylics on canvas https://www.mouminatouthiaw.com/writing/trepe8vvot10841h7rx06umboth78m monthly 0.5 2026-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/9111ebef-e95d-467b-97e9-3ebfe039978b/IMG_5627.jpg WRITING - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT : KWAKU OWUSU ACHIM - I was invited to visit Achim at Crescents Studio in Accra, where he works alongside artists Joshua Oheneba-Takyi, Clifford Bright-Abu, and Kwabena Lartey. During my visit he shared about a town in the eastern part of Ghana, called Adamrode, in which 20% of its population is deaf. In this town, those who are deaf must marry with hearing people by law; the motive of this law is that the population of deaf people would diminish over time. Achim also shared that the people of this town believe in both hearing and deaf gods, and they know which type of god they are communicating with when the priests dance one beat, or off beat, during ceremonies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1708853719604-AKWQJSYG96PZ1IQ2NTT8/IMG_4693.jpg WRITING - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT : KWAKU OWUSU ACHIM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1708853724825-SXZP4HBE0MYQ779CPLOM/IMG_4695.jpg WRITING - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT : KWAKU OWUSU ACHIM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1708853949156-M61KPT4WJUQRAVC44SPG/Untitled-69.jpg WRITING - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT : KWAKU OWUSU ACHIM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/7341bb3d-4202-490f-90dc-3444db3f713c/Untitled-106.jpg WRITING - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT : KWAKU OWUSU ACHIM - Kwaku Owusu Achim is a Ghanian born artist from Kwahu, an area in the eastern region connected with the Twi-speaking Akan; he creates sign-love-languages which he calls hand signs in his enigmatic works to express the push-and-pull of unity, familial love, intimacy and AfroDiasporic spiritual knowledge. His tenebrous backdrops electrify the signature blues, oranges, yellows and occasional greens of his artscapes to construct a mystic visual world in which he explores his learning about west African spiritual traditions, readings and conversations. Achim uses the body lines of his figures, a high-contrast color palette, and the sign-love-language system of his hand signs to create compositional balance and visual harmony in AfroSpiritual ArtScapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1711269013264-3UMLXBLIPG16GOXIGNXR/IMG_5625+2.jpg WRITING - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT : KWAKU OWUSU ACHIM - Part of "nkonta buo series" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1711269014126-VOQQ8AU1FVAP9KI7USLA/IMG_5626.jpg WRITING - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT : KWAKU OWUSU ACHIM - shown at O'DA Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1711269251216-SQPYZL1H74VFXBRE10TM/IMG_5628.jpg WRITING - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT : KWAKU OWUSU ACHIM - Lagos, Nigeria 2022 https://www.mouminatouthiaw.com/writing/zanzibar-street-art monthly 0.5 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709717887465-6GRH9IQW9G04F4IFHUQ1/IMG_5028.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709717891256-A91UNYWYXP95451M2Z0M/IMG_5029.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709717894363-EYDACGJY5PU343WVHPE7/IMG_5030.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709717896779-2QMLZSPRL2PF346ZW2OL/IMG_5031.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1701847670519-CH564QSJP92FRGI9Q5AF/zanzistreetart6.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1701847524518-VPJ34Z50WCK6G0E3KRTP/zanzistreetart8.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1701847721804-KAJ3N9JWD0OQQOSC3UD3/zanzistreetart5.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1701847866532-MRU68FNQEKYI1TUZEJAE/zanzistreetart7.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1702031208140-PLMT9X9N12K4QFTJVC0N/zanzistreetart.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1702030966585-07CYSPNM03U9VOAG4EME/IMG_9173.JPG WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/a753563e-0637-4f76-9339-cf11cac21ab6/IMG_9026.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/3bcef11c-243f-4f7b-b828-6796fd1b7e9d/IMG_9144.JPG WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART - “We’re trying to identify the most encouraged artists behind this movement, but its really hard because I usually deal with the shop owner, and sometimes the pictures are so old that they don’t know who painted them, or maybe the art was there before they owned the building. But a few times we find signatures and mobile numbers, some which are working and some which are not”. - Dáriusz Gwizdala https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/59836f48-8b29-4b1c-9847-49233823c2c9/darz4.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART - Make it stand out Guest house mural painted with local children from Paje https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/47d2b978-a660-44bf-a8b4-e04615f0ac69/PHOTO-2023-12-05-12-11-28+2.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART - Make it stand out Schoolhouse mural in Paje https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709715428323-FD5D1ZRIAQT1G247MXI2/zanzistreetart11.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709715456019-5ANEVFGOTG4U7YOEID5E/zanzistreetart15.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709715453790-J9CAUX9C2PNOFYP4SRU6/zanzistreetart17.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709715428865-Y1Z9OPUKK4B4Q670JDY6/zanzistreetart13.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709716233381-BX3VIBGXWSF1KC4SJU8Y/zanzistreetart1.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709716466039-XETQQK5WWHI3QLHWZ048/darz1.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709716431067-JN0A1X21XPLTUS0SXJMY/darz3.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709716491500-6XCSMPLAPJLBK1KZA4QR/darz2.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709715369457-Z1J312417I9URTYEUPP5/darz5.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709715387399-YDGQY9RYO12VITOGVHES/darz6.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1709715375805-HRG5FGP4G2FNHV02MXID/darz7.jpg WRITING - ZANZIBAR STREET ART Thank you to the Artists of Zanzibar for coloring the island with Creative Graphic Arts. And a very special thanks to Dáriusz Gwizdala and the work of his team, for the commitment to contextualize, document and spotlight Zanzibar Street Art. 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JAVANESE BATIK : A HISTORY OF WAX-PRINT TEXTILES Klowangan stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1699985670725-IKAUR5JWAX3LM6S8U3JG/4.jpg WRITING - JAVANESE BATIK : A HISTORY OF WAX-PRINT TEXTILES The canting, wax and stove https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1699985611786-J89E6AHPQELMGXBRQCW5/IMG_8018.jpg WRITING - JAVANESE BATIK : A HISTORY OF WAX-PRINT TEXTILES Master of batik ten days into the second stage of creation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1699985624478-RZ6S3I052A5GENOWNYDI/1.jpg WRITING - JAVANESE BATIK : A HISTORY OF WAX-PRINT TEXTILES Copper stamps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1697979724931-0D2EN0NP59LR3G7VT6J8/IMG_2575-2.jpg WRITING - JAVANESE BATIK : A HISTORY OF WAX-PRINT TEXTILES - Kawung Motif Batik Kawung is one of the oldest motifs in Java recorded in written and oral histories as early as the 16th century. Related to the word suwung, which means “emptiness”, the kawung motif symbolizes emptying oneself of worldly desires to grow in self-control, wisdom, purity and holiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1697979581865-B3OIOYJYTQTTO6TYOEGD/parang.jpeg WRITING - JAVANESE BATIK : A HISTORY OF WAX-PRINT TEXTILES - Parang Motif Some motifs, called Larangan Batik, were forbidden patterns, meaning they could only be worn by the Sultan and his descendants. One such motif is called Parang, pictured above. It’s distinguished by its geometric ornamentation of parang daggers arranged in a diagonal line. A leader who wears this motif is expected to have intelligence, agility, strength, and power. The scale of the parang implied the degree of elevation of its wearer - the larger the motif, the more dignified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1697980308053-PCMEU9DRR4WCHH03L6RO/IMG_2812.jpg WRITING - JAVANESE BATIK : A HISTORY OF WAX-PRINT TEXTILES - Burung Motif The bird motif above is called burung, which depicts a peacock or a pheonix, symbolizing eternal life and regeneration. The creative style of the burung and its surrounding flowers records the touch of Chinese merchants who set aside the regulations of Islamic art traditions as they began designing motifs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64c267e7e333bc209c8093cd/1697980416715-CMW2PHIBTTH74XT2GFIP/IMG_2657.jpg WRITING - JAVANESE BATIK : A HISTORY OF WAX-PRINT TEXTILES - Garuda Motif, having two wings, this variation is called sawat. With one winging it’s known as mirong brituk, and without a tail it’s called lar Hinduism and Islam have major influence on both color and symbolic designs in Batik. In Islamic art, surrealism is often used to imply living creatures because traditionally, Islam discourages figurative depictions of people, animals, and Allah. 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