Title: Utatu
Diesel New Art 2004, Draw
Artist: Godfrey Semwaiko
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of
About the work:
Utatu is the work done to express the three basic things in Human Believes, as human believe and pray anywhere, and the place they are praying is mostly a Temple, either in under the tree, in Synagogue, Mosque, Mountain etc. so The temple has three basics in it: The Heaven, The Earth and The Underworld. If your temple is Tree then there is Heaven-Brances, Earth-Stem, and Underworld-Roots. Also aplies to Churches Architecture, Mosques and even Mountains. UTATU is Swahili word meaning THREE. This is watercolour work.
About the artist:
I am Tanzanian Book Illustrator, Painter, Print maker, Computer Graphics designer and sculptor. My work is with different media due to material, theme, feelings and area. At the moment I use Dark and Light as my inspiration of my work
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