Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button
…along their hems. The saying on “Our Nation Needs Peace” reads Leo Ni Leo: Today is Today. In this sense, then, I felt like the pieces of the material culture of Kenya, represented something beyond the material—the Swahili sayings seemed to speak to another sort of vision of Kenya. One of the khangas that I bought was one commemorating the election of Barack Obama, a subject of constant conversation while I was in Kenya. I was there in April, only…
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