Gypsy Faith

Driftwood

Zanzibar Driftwood Frame

On Zanzibar there is awesome driftwood from mango trees. The wood is smooth and rounded and has the collest colors. One summer when we lived there I collected a couple of crates of those bits and dragged them back here. I screwed them to a plywood frame and varnished them. CONTINUE >

Kalua Black & White Bird

Kalua is a Dar street artist who sits beside the expat grocery store in an alley and paints on driftwood. The big Tanzanian painting style is tinga-tinga which is a fliud, bright style that usually depicts the local animals. Kalua’s art is not at all similar to his colleagues’. He CONTINUE >