"I painted my grandmother on the morning after she died. The blue is the sky over Gikomba market that day."

"Sunday morning church on Independence Avenue, two hours before the matinee."

"Photographed across three Ramadan evenings in Old Town. My grandmother was twenty-five."

"Charcoal forgives nothing. Yeoville at six forgives less."

"Karen at three. The horses had just been brought in and the light came through the eucalyptus."