hello my name is wairimu (grace) mugo and I am a multimedia artist and writer studying morden culture and media and computer science at brown university. this site contains some projects that I have worked on that explore the connections and diactomies of art, technology, and the human experience. the goal of my art is to pose questions: who are we, what are our histories, and where are we going? when viewing these pieces i hope each one of them calls forth these inquiries within you.
recent works
created in adobe illustor and drawn by hand, A Thousand Dreams is a laser cut wooden piece that aims to explore the connection between memory, conscience, desire, and existentialism. each square holds a dream, a story, a message lost in conscienceness. who are we when we dream and what are our possiblites? this piece aims to explore that.
created in adobe photoshop God's Creatures is both a 2D digital piece and a 44 by 11'' ink print made in additive and subtractive color respectively. With the main medium being color, the goal of this collage was to discover the complexities of nature and movement love in everyday life. What are our harmonies, how do we move?
created in adobe inDesign Grace's Alice is both a 2D digital piece and 8 by 6'' paperback book with the entire text of Louis Carol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The piece takes inspiration from John Tenniel's illustrations in the orginial novel but with a modern twists and a focus on people of color.
created in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Water Gets No Enemies takes inpiration from the 1975 Nigerian Jazz piece "Water No Get Enemy” by Fela Kuti, where Kuti emphasizes the power of water literally and metaphorically and it's importance to opposing ideology such as life and death. In the piece I aim to explore the connection between religon, memory, and colonlized bodies within the context of water, answeing the question of how we, as post-colonial individuals concptualize our own morality.