"In 2018, I ended a 10-year relationship and it left me broken. I became quiet and irritable; I craved isolation and found myself putting up emotional barriers to avoid having to talk to anyone about it. It felt like I'd never recover. Taking long walks has always been one of the ways I've dealt with my emotional and mental state. On one of these walks around my home city, Kampala in Uganda, I discovered an abandoned warehouse."
"The building was in the heart of the city, among offices and factories, but seemed isolated and forgotten. Within its walls were rooms with doors that led deeper into smaller, more hidden rooms. Rather than unsettling me, I found the emptiness reassuring, and felt at peace for the first time in months. I was able to let my guard down because I was physically and mentally alone."
In 2018, I ended a 10-year relationship and felt broken, quiet, irritable, craving isolation and building emotional barriers to avoid talking. Long walks provided coping, and during one walk in Kampala I discovered an abandoned warehouse tucked among offices and factories. The warehouse contained rooms leading to smaller hidden rooms, and the emptiness felt reassuring and peaceful, allowing me to let my guard down because I was physically and mentally alone. That isolated space matched my state of mind and became the setting for my Indigogo series. Indigogo originated from my interest in indigo dye, sparked during a 2017 artist residency in Salem, Indiana.
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