the Telephones

Each sculpture has at its starting point a stone head – carved from opal, cobalt, butter jade, serpentine, white marble, verdite, epidote, or springstone, and the receiver of a rotary phone dating from the 1950s to the 1970s, a time before Zimbabwe gained its independence and was still known as Rhodesia. The combination of stone and outdated communication tools may lead into a discussion on the complicated relationship of two histories that make up current-day Zimbabwe; and may be broadened to bring into light global ecological questions surrounding the discarding of obsolete technology, and the trend of fading traditions at the hands of capitalism; or the conversation may obsess with the seamlessness, the finesse, the intricacy and sturdiness of each sculpture.