Tinashe Chiura is a Zimbabwean-American university student, focusing primarily on Visual Arts & Cultural Studies and Languages, working to be a visual artist. She has her heart and mind set on exploring how visual arts pertain to and reflect notions of identity in post-colonial Africa. Having spend the latter part of her adolescent life in Zimbabwe, she has seen firsthand how dilapidation, and neglect can be transformed into space so inspiring, and serving a purpose so drastically different, that one can scarcely remember what was there before. In seeing such transformations, and witnessing daily what can happen when a pothole is fixed (a space filled), a house is painted (a space reborn) or lines drawn on what used to be a dirt road (a space created), she feels called to explore what can become of spaces, and how they influence our lives. Her greatest ambition is to transform the visual and urban makeup of cities like her home of Harare to transcend the colonial and evolve into urban spaces that reflect African cultures and histories.
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