A block of Irish limestone is the raw material out of which Emmanuel Changunda creates a sculpture by hand, using hammers and chisels that send up clouds of dust and shoot out chips of stone amid the frequent sparks
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Migration is a journey from one's origins to new materialities abroad. In this case, Shona sculptural tradition translates itself into Irish limestone, a rock that is geologically foreign to Zimbabwe, where Emmanuel Changunda was born, grew up, and initially trained in his art.
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`I've always seen sculpture as a physical activity in which working by hand allows you to pay more attention to detail.'
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Long hours of work demanding the hard manual labour of moving heavy slabs of stone around the workshop and chiselling by hand, as well as concentrated attention to the finest details for which Emmanuel strives.
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`Making sculptures by hand I feel there is a connection with my materials, there's movement, there's a special chemistry between you and the stone.'
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