Grace Ndiritu

My Blood Self is a series that uses repeating images in different works to cause a Déjà vu quality. Civilizations (Part 1) juxtaposes current socio political problems in Africa with the great civilization of the Egyptians. It highlights Africa’s decline through history from a continent of wealth, knowledge, power and higher learning to a place currently experiencing mass sociopolitical upheavals and conflicts. It is also a metaphor for Africa rising from the dead and being reborn again and can be seen within the context of Afrofuturism and the music of Sun Ra.