Danayi is a self-taught textile artist from Zimbabwe who creates texturally rich textiles through an intuitive and contemplative process. She explores global and local traditional handcrafts to create works that focus on the sensory experience.

Danayi Madondo's textile work is experimental and abstract, with a regenerative design process that reduces textile waste. Her work engages with multi-disciplinary practices that take on an immersive storytelling approach to expand on archive and cultural preservation. Her textile and fashion work often amalgamates multidisciplinary art forms.

conception, gestation, and birth
"The process of weaving evokes the vicissitudes of life, growth, and maturity."

- Unknown

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“I have learned that each and every piece of cloth embodies the spirit, skill, and personal history of an individual weaver. . . . It ties together with an endless thread the emotional life of my people.”

- Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez