It is his mother who first taught him how to draw and his grandmother who would tell him stories about the past: about her grandmother and her great-grandmother and how they came to be in the place they now call home and stories history books do not tell.

Drawing heavily on the stories of the Kamba people told by his grandmother, he explores how history and identity are intertwined, looking at the past the present and the space in between. His works are multifaceted and characterised by rich layers, offering fragments to be pieced together slowly with stitching. The lengthy research process employed in the making of the works is mirrored in the experience of viewing them, „it’s like layers of history“.

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