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Since March of this year, Dickens Otieno has been in transit between Nairobi and Migori in Western Kenya, a recurring journey that is the genesis of the works in the current exhibition, Trails.

The seven-hour drive in either direction formed a meditative environment for Dickens to rewire his relationship with his childhood home in Migori, a process that has opened up new channels of inspiration, and explorations in psychogeography. Whether it is winding through fields of maize and sugarcane, alongside smaller kitchen gardens that serve everyday vegetable needs, or watching cattle grazing with …