How Kuse Kashala Turns Discarded Materials into Sculptures

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One of the surprises of our Horn of Africa trip of 2012 was the atelier of Kuse Kashale, a South Ethiopian artist working with scrap materials

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Used plastic plates and scrap metal became animal and human figures outside a workshop near Jinka. In an account of a 2012 trip, travelers describe stopping at Kuse Kashala’s roadside display near Kako village. They say he made sculptures from materials available locally, including lamps, wooden sticks and animal hides. The finished pieces stood outside his hut, where passing vehicles could spot them.

The travelers bought a small sculpture, though they found many others too large to carry. They also report that other tourists had bought his work. What makes the stop memorable is the change in how those everyday materials appear: objects someone discarded had become figures worth pulling over to examine. The account offers no definite explanation for why Kashala began making them. Is the roadside display still there, and where can his sculptures be seen today?

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