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TITLE -Stone carvers of Tabaka,Kisii
At Tabaka shopping centre, women are scratching and chopping the slabs. I watch beguiled as they expertly carve out shapes from the slabs. The resultant wok is beautiful carvings. The carvers have created some of the most beautiful carvings in the world.Kerubo is the proprietor of Pamoja Arts Galley.
She has employed twenty women,which translates to livelihood to 20 households.Kerubo says that fatigue overpowers them so much that they are forced to rest for a day or two after making one or two carvings each. They are however courageous and determined, investing all their energy into the sculpting enterprise.
She invites me to take a seat in her office. Her office is actually a store of mute, nude community of carvings.
‘Products made from it were mainly sold in the local markets but it is a slow enterprise. Kenyans are not good buyers of artistic works. She strengthens herself with thoughts that someday soon Kenyans will start appreciating art and buy her effigies.’ she explains.
She has employed twenty women,which translates to livelihood to 20 households.Kerubo says that fatigue overpowers them so much that they are forced to rest for a day or two after making one or two carvings each. They are however courageous and determined, investing all their energy into the sculpting enterprise.
She invites me to take a seat in her office. Her office is actually a store of mute, nude community of carvings.
‘Products made from it were mainly sold in the local markets but it is a slow enterprise. Kenyans are not good buyers of artistic works. She strengthens herself with thoughts that someday soon Kenyans will start appreciating art and buy her effigies.’ she explains.