Moussa Albaka is a Tuareg tribesman from Niger, in West Africa. And with my bare hands make out of earth, air, fire, water, things, that will eventually melt back into the earth again, and again, because it’s everything I can do.” But mostly in my courage and fortitude and sheer will to continue to add, piece by piece by piece, sometimes working in a vacuum of desperation to convey to who, what? To you, to them, to me, to the heaven and the earth this life long exploration that is both impossible to grasp and without words.
I continue to fascinate myself with my own luminosity and even more with my profound ignorance. Of course, “talk is cheap”, to quote somebody. It is this place that let’s us into another realm. The consistent motion of the earth and the sea, tumbling and roiling, defines delineates and qualifies what is there and what is somewhere invisible, bound in it’s own nature to perpetuate. The edge is ever present sharpening and then falling away, and ever as inarticulate as is the tideline. Tension lies at the edge this place where the physical meets the spirit, where inside meets outside, light passes to dark and to light again. However, it is at the edge where we advance and retreat to catch a glimpse of the abyss. I can easily navigate between the 2 – 3 dimensions and from time to time, even between heaven and earth. My experience lies in the things I leave behind. “For decades now I have taken every chance, challenge, even dare that has been offered up.
She is also heavily influenced by traditional cultures and attempts to create modern interpretations that are relevant to an urban environment. She works from her home studio in Nairobi, where she sources inspiration from her surroundings and her day to day experiences. This left a lasting impression on Katungulu that has seen her working with community groups within the region to make pieces for her collection. She spent much of her youth following around her late grandmother who ran and managed a curio shop in Nairobi that sourced work from artisanal groups that she worked closely with in their home town in Eastern Kenya. Katungulu studied fashion in the United Kingdom where upon completion, returned home to Kenya to pursue the creation of her own contemporary fashion line. Experimenting with modern techniques, innovative fabrics and traditional methods.īorn and raised by a base guitarist, architect and plant loving, psychologist, alongside her best friend and techie of a brother in Nairobi Kenya. Katungulu Mwendwa designs timeless, transcendent casual and semi-formal wear that extends beyond any season.
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