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FLOWER POWER
Rooted in the western pacifist, non violence resistance
movements and ideology of the 1960’s, the notion of ‘Flower
Power’ has since evolved and blossomed into a 21st century
global movement, and struggle, utilised by greenpeace activists,
environmentalists and anti-war groups alike.
Today, Flower Power is not simply marked by a repulsion against
the cool steel of armament development and the threat of mutually
assured destruction through the advancement of nuclear and
bio-chemical weapons, but an even more sinister threat against
humanity, and its future generations; climate change and global
warming.
Poignantly, against the backdrop of COP 26, as world leaders
convene in Europe to agree solutions to resolve the increasingly
imminent threat against global civilisation, and ratify agreements
made in Paris six years prior, Evans Mbugua, works prolifically
in his studio in the same city, to create a body of work that
addresses these issues, albeit visually, and more cryptically, but
nonetheless, no less significant and powerful.
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