My research-based practice focuses on womanhood experiences that include nurturing, preserving, evolving aesthetics, material culture specialty and methodological history while addressing current influences, challenges and transformations.

My current work is centered on material culture with earth-conscious media where I not only source my materials from nature but plant and harvest them as key processes in accessing my work. My process engages traditional techniques such as weaving, stitching, burning and hand paper making from natural fibers which has elevated the urgency to activate alienated traditional technologies in contemporary communities and lifestyle.

I am specifically working with Ugandan bark cloth known as “lubugo” which is not only thought to be the most ancient textile made by humanity but possesses a significant cultural value for peoples across Central and Eastern Africa. This cultural significance and being a prerequisite of weaving led to the artisanal production process of bark cloth being declared a “Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage” by UNESCO in 2005 and added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list in 2008.

“Okukomaga” in Buganda refers to the 600 years sustainable harvesting and crafting of the renewable bark from the “Mutuba” without having to fell the fig tree. To allow the bark to regenerate, the exposed trunk is carefully wrapped with banana fiber.

I transform the bark cloth into paper and blend it with different natural fibers to create art. Through engaging with indigenous technologies, I create new purpose and language with bark cloth. By interrogation of material culture and transformation, I study human condition and the environment, cultural advancement and evolution.