Registers of Loss

Rinos Mwanaka

Description

My work takes the nature of interactive, collaborative and multidisciplinary. I work across several art fields, including among others literary (fictions, novels, essays poetry, play, short stories, songs...), musical (composition, singing, reciting, mbira, marimba, keyboards, a little guitar...), and visual (drawings, paintings, photography, collages, mixed media, installation etc...) I am interested in connection, convergence, community and cooperation, following disparate sometimes disfigured experiences, seeing how they can come together or shy away from each other to create new wholes.

The baobab trees are ancient trees, some might be thousands years old, imagine the people who have stayed in these dwellings, who have ate the fruits of these trees, who have used its leaves as relish(we create mashed okra relish with baobab leaves), the ailments treated by its buck....every part of this succulent tree is useful. In this photo journey I learned a lot more about these beautiful souls: they have a tendency to create musical lines, mostly linear, it's like one tone starting it, fading and letting the next tone to take over and this will fade and let another tone to take over, such that you can see the lines, how they conjoin to create music beyond human understanding. And most of the Baobabs, I realized, inhabit the same place in numbers, and usually they are on high grounds, like Gods who love elevated dwellings, and they look down upon other small humans (small trees, humans etc...), but there are also some singular baobabs that inhabit lower grounds and most of these are solitary and from my memory growing up here, these don't bear fruits. And whilst I was photographing the Baobabs several story strands in my head converged around one far much more important issue, the issue of Climate Change and Global Warming. In Registers of Loss I encourage working together as human beings to arrest Global warming and climate change the way the baobabs work together to communicate in linear notes, or in community thoughts.

Sujets

• Loisirs
• Collections photographiques
• Photographie Créative
• Individual Photographers
• Artists' Books
• Artist's book
• Photography

Informations

• Publié par: Mwanaka Media and Publishing
• Date de parution: 11 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781779272621
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 18 Mo

Extrait

Registers of Loss

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

Registers of Loss Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

Registers of Loss: PhotoTalking with the Baobab Trees of Nyatate

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, Chitungwiza Zimbabwe * Creativity, Wisdom and Beauty

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Publisher:Mmap Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd 24 Svosve Road, Zengeza 1 Chitungwiza Zimbabwe [e-mail] [e-mail] https://www.mmapublishing.org www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/mwanaka-media-and-publishing https://facebook.com/MwanakaMediaAndPublishing/ Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com ISBN: 978-1-77921-326-6 EAN: 9781779213266 ©Tendai Rinos Mwanaka 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher DISCLAIMER All views expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views ofMmap.

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Index of artworks

1.Finding A Way Home……………………………………………………………………………………………………1 2.Sunrise…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 3.Volcanic Explosion………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5 4.Signature Baobab Tree…………………………………………………………………………………………………..7 5.The Seat of Government………………………………………………………………………………………………..9 6.Nyatate Bush Baobab……………………………………………………………………………………………………11 7.The Rising Sun and the Setting Sun on the Rolling World……………………………………………….13 8.Mapfurira Kraal Baobab Tree……………………………………………………………………………………….15 9.Couples Retreat……………………………………………………………………………………………………………16 10.The Colour Purple……………………………………………………………………………………………………….17 11.Couples……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….19 12.Linear Music……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….20 13.Holding the Line………………………………………………………………………………………………………….21 14.Sand River…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..22 15.Nyajezi River……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….24 16.Registers of Loss…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..26 17.Registers of Loss revisited……………………………………………………………………………………………..29 18.Spinning Arms……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..31 19.Muchena Mountains (White Mountains)………………………………………………………………………..32 20.Facing the White Mountains………………………………………………………………………………………….33 21.Climate Apocalyptic……………………………………………………………………………………………………..34 22.Facing Nyatate 2…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..36 23.Facing Nyatate 1…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..37 24.Musinga Baobab Tree…………………………………………………………………………………………………..38

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25.An Under Sea imagined………………………………………………………………………………………………39 26.The Sleeping Lion Stretches in the East………………………………………………………………………..40 27.A home Under the Constant Gaze of Nyanga Mountain…………………………………………………..43 28.Umbrella……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..44 29.Chinyamusaka Gap………………………………………………………………………………………………………45 30.Where it all begins……………………………………………………………………………………………………….48 31.Where it all ends………………………………………………………………………………………………………….49 32.And The Sun Sets………………………………………………………………………………………………………..50 33.Mmap Multi-disciplinary Series……………………………………………………………………………………..51

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Introducing Registers of Loss t’s something I had been meaning to do for years, photographing Nyatate’s Baobab I trees, and it’s what I set out to do when I took this photographic tour end of September this year. I grew up in this area 3-5decades ago and they were a constant companion. In our 12 acres family plot we have 4 baobabs, one had a hole and a dwelling curved inside it, we would hide in it when it was raining and we were working the fields. The baobab trees are ancient trees, some might be thousands years old, imagine the people who have stayed in these dwellings, who have ate the fruits of these trees, who have used its leaves as relish(we create mashed okra relish with baobab leaves), the ailments treated by its buck….every part of this succulent tree is useful. Unfortunately most of the Baobabs have shut out their indwelling to us by closing the doors to us. In Mapfurira Kraal Baobab tree, “Seat of Government”, I enthused Baobabs have this attitude of dominating its environment, both above and below like a Seat of Government that creates laws, rules and authority to govern its surroundings. In this photo journey I learned a lot more about these beautiful souls: they have a tendency to create musical lines, mostly linear, it’s like one tone starting it, fading and letting the next tone to take over and this will fade and let another tone to take over, such that you can see the lines, how they conjoin to create music beyond human understanding. And most of the Baobabs, I realized, inhabit the same place in numbers, and usually they are on high grounds, like Gods who love elevated dwellings, and they look down upon other small humans (small trees, humans etc…), but there are also some singular baobabs that inhabit lower grounds and most of these are solitary and from my memory growing up here, these don’t bear fruits. These are the gods we stay with every day. And whilst I was photographing the Baobabs several story strands in my head converged around one far much more important issue, the issue of Climate Change and Global Warming. As I noted the Baobab tree communicates in linear music and they will outstay us, as their roots go deeper to the water sources. We should all be listening closely to its music. We should be working together as human beings to arrest Global warming and climate

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