IGNYTE Magazine Issue 01 | Page 86

You’ve lost your home, but you’ve always got a home here,” the ladies of the Olmakau Collective assured me as they enveloped me in embraces punctuated by stabs of wire protuberances from enormous beaded necklaces and head adornments. Their voluptuous bodies were warm and moist from the exuberant welcoming song and dance that had accompanied my arrival.