Heath Nash makes cool things

The New Basket Workshop starts โ€“ 23 June 2009

2009-10-22

the rank market on the first day of my trip to Zimbabwe earlier this year
the rank market on the first day of my trip to Zimbabwe earlier this year
fruit in a Japanese supermarket
fruit in a Japanese supermarket

When I arrived in Zimbabwe (Bulawayo - my birth town) for a series of weaving workshops there with 2 different groups of women weavers, I was taken to the rank market, where a certain pride was shown by the people selling tomatoes and sorghum and so on. It immediately reminded me of the way produce and objects are often proudly and beautifully displayed in Japan - like the fruit in the second photo above...


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