March 19,2014. 

Even Mzee Elimo Njau agrees

In my blog post yesterday where I was relating art and freedom and how everyone generally is artistic in some way, I mentioned how the placement of things in someone's house can be looked at from an artistic point of view. To some point, I felt that I had not gone as far as I should have to explain that comparison. I felt that that particular part of the post was inadequately explained. 

I stumbled on this while wandering around the streets of tumblr and I thought why not bring it home and share it?  It's from Mikemelrinho's  account and was titled "Psychedelic art" 
What I did not appreciate up to yesterday was that someone else (with a better general understanding of life and art than me) would say the same about how art brings itself out in the simple way we create order in things and people around us.


Just this afternoon I was going through one of my favorite arts and culture blogs and I stumbled upon this paragraph in Anyiko Owoko's post that I think had the same message as one paragraph in my blog yesterday. The highlighted sentences are the two that made me write this post by the way.


“Kenyans appreciate art. They just don’t know that it’s in daily life. It’s how you arrange your flowers, your clothes, it’s the general order. While it’s true that art is abstract, it lives through your eyes in two forms; the tangible and intangible. At the end, art is about receiving and living. You are as much as an artist just by appreciating a piece of art. Same way you are a composer if you can value the music,” wise words from one of the fathers of East African culture & art Mzee Njau. As my love for Africa got re-acquainted, I fell hard in the acquainting of my love for Paa Ya Paa.

You can read about Anyiko's visit to Paa Ya Paa Art Center here

I am personally a big fan of Anyiko Owoko's works ( TV, Curating Art, Model, Fashionista, Blogger, and most of all brilliant beautiful African woman) and I recommend her blog to anyone who likes reading about a place and then feels like they were actually there themselves. You can reach her blog by clicking on this link.


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