The artist Lawi Moshi lives in Mamba near Marangu. He searches the forest for fallen wood and has some type of vision that allows him to see things in the pieces of wood that he finds. It is most remarkable. Currently, the family has purchased an amazing Makonde carving of Adam and Eve, a beautiful large warthog (ngiri), an amazing ostrich (mboni), two madonna and child statues, a heron, a guitar (to be strung and tuned in January), a marimba, a face of a man, a little bird breaking out of the egg. This man once had a place in a gallery and for one reason or another, as things tend to go, this place did not work out. His studio is his home, a simple place in Mamba, and he asks for nothing but for his work to be appreciated. We do! Amazing findings in the Kilimanjaro region do not fail to astound and touch me.
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