A South Sudanese journalist is using recycled paper to create works of art now being exhibited at Juba Civic Engagement Centre with pretty high price tags on them.
Kidenite Art show is mostly made of pots and paintings dominated by South Sudan’s national colours.
The pots are sold in clusters of three and at 600 Pounds and paintings range between 600 to 700 Pounds.
Artist Salome Kiden, who is also a SSTV newscaster, told CRN that the she loves art and that she was unhappy about the way papers were tossed here and there at her workplace.
She said she decided to recycle the used papers creating the first ever works of art made of paper in South Sudan.
Ms Kiden explained that she cuts and soaks the used papers in water for three days, mashes them with paper glue and shapes the paste in whatever object she likes.
She said she used inflated balloons to make pots.
Central Equatoria Acting Governor Manasseh Lomole pledged to contribute 10,000 Pounds to support Ms Kiden’s art works.