“The square is only painted.” — Akim Mulahngu Msakanda Farrow, 2nd Year Sculpture MFA
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As a first generation Zimbabwean-American artist, grown in the mountains, my perspective is shaped by imbrications of being. My work navigates layerings and liminalities of identity, myth, and storytelling; in-between realms of the self. All materiality is a single body, alive with memory, weight, and form. In the Contemporary age, the industrial Anthropocene, where the bones of the world are cast in steel, I often turn to this medium, my first material love, to tell the stories I wish I was told about the world; about myself. My sculptures are living objects and sites of story-building, where personal and collective histories collide, transmuting the industrial age into something more intimate. I have visions of nature then urbanity, my heart then my home, they help me explore how mythologies, personal; collective, and our bodies shape our sense of self, community, and place. Materials as medium and metaphor; history and possibility, my works celebrate the intricate and infinite imbrications of our shared human experience.
Photography and design by
@zachdobbinsart 
