10/11/2010 Weave the Kenyan Way

Wood and Mud Houses in Kenya

During my recent month in the East Coast of Kenya, I established a deep connection with the culture, environment and people living there. I knew I wanted to make work inspired by the architecture of rural family houses made from a simple but affective wooden frame filled in with the deep red earth that covers the Kenyan landscape as soon as I saw them. In a climate that is very hot and humid for the major part of the year, these houses need to be nothing more than easy and cheap to build, with a cool,dry interior but these houses have a simplistic beauty like no other architecture I have seen.

(weaver bird nest photo)