Employing a labor-intensive technique of soaking and staining, this work on paper manifests as the physical embodiment of time and underscores the artist’s relationship with nature, yet another system of exchange. In a painstaking process, Kure invites the labor of seasons to partake in the creation of her works.

Kure titled this series of work on paper in Bamum (or Shümom), an indigenous African writing system of the Cameroon Grassfields. Invented by King Ibrahim Njoya in 1896, Bamum was a syllabic script used for administrative purposes, documentation, and education. As a result of colonial suppression in the 1930s, it has largely fallen into disuse. These titles provide an additional layer to the work, considering the ways that not only line, but language represents an ever-connected system of power.