Secrets was a site specific installation for Gallery Delta in Harare, Zimbabwe. It consisted of pairs of black and white photographs, with a dismembered audio speaker covered in multiple layers of felt that muffled the sound, and panels of painted canvas with holes sewn up to give only a partial view. The piece was an attempt to articulate and recognize relations that are normally hidden and unspoken. The work tried to reproduce the experience of being an expatriate, particularly the moment of realization that things are not what they seem.
A friend said to me at the time, “Do not scold people on a journey: a foot has no nose.” (Shona Proverb)