Mutiusinezita

This painting is a visual meditation of the sacred nameless tree of Marondera, Zimbabwe. A site of ancestral rituals (including rainmaking) and royal burials, this rare tree bears many types of leaves on a single body. It is one of only three such trees in the country.

The painting explores duality through the simultaneous presence of the sun and moon, a phenomenon known as syzygy, which offers a moment of cosmic balance. This celestial harmony becomes a metaphor for the spiritual equilibrium held within the tree itself, where opposing forces are not separate, but complementary aspects of a larger whole.

In a world full of named things, this tree remains unclaimed, but not unknown. It is a monument that resists definition, its presence echoing through the land where it is rooted, and through the living heritage of its people.