by Lizzy Moon
Visual Artist, Teaching Artist
IG : mununa
email : [email protected]
Mununa is an artist and Teaching Artist whose practice explores how time can be observed, remembered, and recorded through color. Working with natural pigments, installation, writing, drawing, and participatory projects, she creates material archives that reveal the changing relationships between people, place, and the natural world.
Her practice begins with careful observation. Walking through landscapes, collecting plants, making pigments, writing, and drawing are interconnected ways of paying attention to a place. Rather than documenting nature as it appears, she is interested in recording the traces of time embedded within it.
Natural pigments are central to her practice. She collects colors from plants, flowers, fruits, and soil, transforming them into handmade powdered pigments through experimental processes. During extraction, colors often shift and transform, revealing qualities that are not immediately visible in living plants. She understands this process as a form of translation rather than reproduction. Each pigment becomes a material record of a particular season, place, and moment in time.
For Mununa, natural pigments are not simply materials for painting. They are a visual language for remembering and exploring time. By collecting and accumulating pigments from different places, she builds an evolving archive that reflects seasonal change, local ecology, and the subtle ways time becomes visible through color.
Her practice continues to expand through installation, writing, embroidery, workshops, and community based projects. Although these works take different forms, they share the same intention: to translate traces of time into different material languages. Pigments, handwritten letters, embroidery, conversations, and living plants each become distinct archives that preserve experiences, memories, and relationships shaped by place.
As a Teaching Artist, Mununa sees education as another form of artistic practice. Rather than teaching techniques, she creates situations in which people observe, make, and reflect together. These shared experiences become living archives that extend her artistic practice, inviting participants to discover new relationships with nature, place, and one another.
Ultimately, her work is not about preserving nature itself. It is about paying attention to the time we share with the living world and creating material forms through which those encounters can continue to be remembered.
*<mununa. Pigments : Red beat. 2024>*