In 2020 when my residency with NOW Friends in Nairobi Kenya was cancelled due to Covid, I spent 3 months cleaning, drilling and string thousands of bottle caps into larger-than-life strings of pearls inspired by Masi beading designs instead.
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In 2020 when my residency with NOW Friends in Nairobi Kenya was cancelled due to Covid, I spent 3 months cleaning, drilling and string thousands of bottle caps into larger-than-life strings of pearls inspired by Masi beading designs instead.