#PAZIA

By StoryZangu

In the stitched silence of wounded skin, PAZIA rises a visual protest born from Kenya’s Maandamano resistance. This StoryZangu series weaves portraits of defiance and memory, where thread becomes both wound and witness. Yet, even in silence, the body speaks.

Names of the dead are inked across skin. Hashtags of the living pulse like veins: #pazia #Sirininumbers #JusticeForAlbertOjwang #Maandamano

In Kiswahili, pazia means veil something that conceals but can also reveal. In this work, it tears open the state’s curtain of denial. It dares to ask: what grief goes unseen? What truths lie beneath stitched silence?

PAZIA is more than art. It’s mourning turned public, pain turned political, and protest turned permanent. Here, the body becomes a canvas, a placard, a timeline a refusal to forget.