Musekiwa reflects on concepts of connections; how to integrate new elements into life’s rhythms, and how to bridge cultural and territorial divides. Speaking through his maerials, Musekiwa draws spiritual connection to bridge worlds:
A Nigerian wooden paddle from Makoko, the world’s largest floating city, becomes the root of a series of black clay heads sculpted in Mänttä, a remote town in Finland surrounded by water.
A read opal stone head carved in his studio Zimbabwe is affixed to the bronze knife he forged in Hammeenlinna, Finland at the Siberia foundry. The character that emerges and stands on a wood base burnt in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Valuable Metaphors was created upon Musekiwa’s return home to Zimbabwe after his stay with the CTG Collective in Newfoundland during 2016. The work is a monument to the artist’s first time seeing the ocean. Musekiwa collected hundreds of periwinkles, fascinated by their small structures, and later selected them one by one with the help of the collective members. The sculpture is a metaphor for bringing the ocean to Zimbabwe as seven Zimbabwean characters carved from spring stone admire the shells in awe.