As a contemporary artist with an African heritage and backbone of the bugisu philosophies of art, it is in my DNA to dance, to move and feel the atmosphere of flow, to be vibrant and aggressive. But some stories I choose to tell by creating images and spaces of fantasy to give viewers time to dig in the art work and seek their own interests, imaginations and meanings.
I understand that some stories can not be pronounced nor written, I choose to embark on the human body as the museum through which the audience can seek their readings. I want to tell stories to the world but can’t learn all the spoken languish. So I choose the body to communicate. Before and after us will be history reincarnated within our bodies. Of which history we can only tell by body not voice. Our bodies react to every situation whether or not by our intention. Question is, how do I make the human body the book of history?
I draw my interest to understand the relationship between the body and space. installation and novels. I understand in my tradition, we are the laziest at reading but the quickest to viewing. With this background, I place my research on the human body as the ink to write history, narrate stories and interpret the versions from the other worlds.
Depending on how I understand and define dance, I at times produce my work with little or no movements but installation of the human body in space.
