Nature Glitches: The Color of Mozambique

Euridice Zaituna Kala created a photographic diptych titled 'Nature Glitches' representing her personal reflection of Mozambique. The artwork consists of leaves and plants overlaid with pink and red filters. Here she explains the meaning behind the artwork and what it means to be African. 

A colour that is not on the spectrum of our naked eye. We can assume it does exist because we can create it somehow. A colour that absorbs other colours to make it self appear that assumes that objects and people can change shapes if we really desire. A colour that is primary, not mono, not unique. A colour that is many…colours.

What does it mean to be South American or North American or Asian or even European? What are the urgencies of representation and belonging? What does it mean to unpack this questions? Would this reveal a particular difference? 

Will it be liberating to be different? How can our contemporary multiple representations find space in this closed conversations?

Can the format suffice? Will we be happy with the response? Will it make me feel more African? Was I only African in the beginning? Does where I live make me more African? Is what I eat make me African? Can where I pray make me African?