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New Sculptures Added To Website!
We've just added 33 new sculptures to the web site, including many wonderful pieces by our featured artists Passmore Mashaya and Henry Munyaradzi!
Featured Sculptures:
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My Secret
Passmore Mashaya
To the Shona, the soul is like the wind, or air. Or, as the Shona would say, "Mweya wakafanana nemhepo kana mwando" - the soul that moves quietly like the air and lives in and infuses all around us. The elders revere the power of the wind, which exists without anyone being able to see or control it, just as the soul lives. One can see by watching the tree leaves blowing just which direction the wind is moving, but no one knows its origin or final destination, or can grasp the wind, or the soul. It just exists. In bursts of sudden whirlwinds, the Shona sometimes suspect the presence of a spirit that is wandering with the wind and searching. ©
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Wrapped In Our Love
Henry Munyaradzi
Melding two souls into one, the art work expresses the profound love and trust between two people. The Shona believe that lover's souls become spiritually inseparable upon professing their love for one another. In traditional society, bonding of people sustains and nurtures the foundation for the entire ancient culture. It creates the sacred unit and all laws governing Shona society serve to protect these vulnerable bonds. The artwork represents the metamorphic cohesion with stone as the symbolic medium.©
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Happiness or Rufaro
Gerade Mlengeni
This elegant sculpture portrays rufaro or a sublime happiness found in Shona culture. It means he or she has taken care of the family's basic needs and can now concentrate on the happiness of the family, the extended family and the greater tribal community. A person who has rufaro can sustain a contented state of mind, no matter how life treats him. He can cope with disasters, never seeks revenge, nor has any wish to hurt an enemy. In this artwork, the spirit is leaving rugare, or physical happiness, and rising into rufaro, the higher spiritual contentment.©
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