Dog Firepit Mural
December 30, 2021
Cement and river stones
So this is another out-of-school project that was also somewhat of a group project with my family over the Christmas break of 2021-2022. My parents own some cottages up in the Aberdares in rural Kenya. They're really cute, there's a river out front, and it can be nice and cool depending on the time of year. We always bring our dogs and my parents are always adding new things to the property. My dad decided to add a fire pit to the side of a hill and assigned making a mural to us girls, so we gathered a bunch of river stones of different colors and shaped them into our past dogs. Left to right: Pixel, Cheza ('play' in Swahili), Nandi, Ndevu ('beard' in Swahili), with an 'H' in the middle as our family initial. Nandi's puppy, either Rye or Chai is standing on the seat in the second picture and Keg, who's the same breed as Ndevu, is standing in the third photo. I would enjoy making another mural in the future out of any materials, maybe glass or stones or plastic. Bonus: my back was so sunburnt afterwards.
