ad with a hypothesis, and investigate a certain social or political issue and execute it? A: That process is new, but then I suppose it is not only a reflection on the Kenyan, but also the global side of things, whereby it is important to find threads … relationships and join the dots. As someone who is standing aside and looking at the proper picture, you find that this element works with this element, this artist with another, this work relates to this concept, to this theme … this is my idea and a particular work actually functions within it. So that process is new … now people have become more critical with their expression and we try and find places where our expressions fit. Because on one level a curator also needs to have a creative edge, which means he has an idea, a thought, but he also needs to manifest, to materialize it. If I were a curator, I am not a curator, but if I were, your current paintings would probably fit into a certain idea, and another artist’ s drawings would as well, so it is would be up to me, as curator, to see and present those threads. That’ s all it is, its presentation …
Q: What do you think about this evolution from simply hanging up work on a wall to the current critical, concept based exhibitions … I don’ t think you would be agreeable today if I asked you to bring work to go hang in some restaurant in town just like that?
A: Maybe I would if I was broke- well, I am broke. Maybe I would if my landlord was knocking on my door; I don’ t know … maybe I would. I don’ t think I would at this point though, I don’ t know about the future.
Q: Am glad you brought that bit about the economic or is it financial dimension which informs our actions as artists ….? A: …. That is the linkage I wanted to bring in, which is that the process has changed, but then also the motives behind the processes. section3: Conceptual
To a certain extent the idea; creating a painting on canvas, a meter by meter was all the conceptualization that I needed to do- I think any process of artistic expression, be it writing music or theatre- whatever, begins with an idea, which gives way to a concept. This is because a concept looks at the structure. You have an idea, a spark, and the concept is how that idea links up to the real world, or even to the world of fantasy. But then, the execution and the kind of interaction you want your audience to have with
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