At the same time, they play a key part in shaping an urban identity in terms of design, style, and language. The routes themselves are strong signifiers of identity.
Nairobi's diamonds is a project that harvests a by-product of city life, broken windscreens, and shapes this into jewellery designed as matatu route numbers. The project is ongoing
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- ARCHIVE
- CV
- BIO
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- Slum.tv
- The Incomplete Archive of Political Smiles
- Letter to Lagat
- Kenya Navy Sick Bay
- Thika Road mad boys
- Mashup (exhibition)
- Re-imagining Out of Africa
- Once Upon A Time
- Not in the Title too
- Mashup the Archive
- The Rubbish Companion
- Die Dauercamperin
- Die Dauercamperin Copy
- GZ Calling Copy
- Made in Chinafrica
- Die Dauercamperin Copy
- The Ministry of Plastic
- The Bike Gang
- Bar of the Oppressed
- A Day
- Dead Insects in My Parents Pool
- Sustainability; a concept I believe in, a word i don't trust
- Grassroots Upgraded
- Iconic
- Not in the Title
- Ochuo's Funeral
- Million Bob
- Nairobi's Diamonds
- Afropolis
- The car park
- Logos of NPOs
- Pets of Kibera
- Roomah
- Renaming the Streets
- I Love Nairobi
- Ato Malinda
- It's a pity we only exist in the future
- Samson's Dead Stock
- Slum TV
- Chainsaws
- Remember Me
- 6 Hours for 6 days
- GZ Callling
- Skiza Sea
- Strings
- The Naked Snail
- IIP
- Nairobi Distributed
- Octopus
- Simba Mbili
NAIROBI'S DIAMONDS
Nairobi traffic is notorious and collisions between cars are common. As a result, at night the roads glisten with glass crystals from all the broken windscreens, a kind of urban jewel, forced into existence by the pressures of the city.
Matatus, the minibuses of Nairobi, are notorious for reckless driving and are often blamed for these crashes.
MEDIUM: C-PRINT, IMAGE DIMENSIONS 120 x 80cm CONTEXT: 'SKETCHES' SOLO EXHIBITION SUPPORTED BY: GOETHE INSTITUT NAIROBI YEAR: 2010
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