The project Another story emerged during a trip to northern Tanzania, together with a research team from Umeå University. We worked in very dry environments where the Acacia trees are trees that can withstand the drought. In these trees lives the Tanzanian equivalent of our most common birds; the Weaver birds. With the methodology of a botanist, I tackled the Weaverbird's nest, which I studied and depicted. My "herbarium" where the depicted bird's nests hang, is a catch net.
Lettowianthus stellatus:
In Tanzania grows a tree with its local name Mwanachoita. But even today it also retains its Latin name Lettowianthus stellatus, after the German general von Lettow Vorbeck. It is one of many examples of lingering colonial thinking. Below are two large scale charcoal drawings (150 x 200 cm) of dried inflorescences from the tree.
