Missouri Botanical Garden - Chapungu Nature, Man, And Myth

Voice: Roy Guthrie, Director of Chapungu Sculpture Park My name is Roy Guthrie. I'm a director of the Chapungu Sculpture Park. It is wonderful to return to the Missouri Botanical Garden, where many of our artists displayed their work for the first time in America in 2001. Stone sculpture is the art medium that most represents the people of Zimbabwe. Many of our artists are from the Shona tribe. There are a few from the Ndebele tribe also. Chapungu artists communicate in various forms of stone to combine contemporary art and themes with their ancient cultural heritage. With great skill and imagination, they convey the relationship between the two guiding forces of the physical world and the spiritual world. This exhibition is grouped in three themes. Man and Nature, Man and Family, and Man and Myth. And the first theme that you'll come to is Man and Myth. These pieces are located between the Ridgway Center there and the Climatron, along the magnolia walk. The sculptures here represent ancestral spirits, to