Nicole RademacherinMom and meTen Fourty-three P.M.And now I draw and now I fly.Oct 3, 2016Oct 3, 2016
Nicole RademacherinFacing Inside SurfacesGuests & GiftsThe homestead gate opens. A man holding a small boy’s hand walks through. The man has the little boy’s colorful backpack in his other hand…Aug 4, 2014Aug 4, 2014
Nicole RademacherinFacing Inside SurfacesIn StereoI need to skip ahead to Saturday evening and go back to the neighborhood walk later. Jane, the kids’ mother, called to say that she would…Aug 4, 2014Aug 4, 2014
Nicole RademacherinFacing Inside SurfacesBeing invisible in the pitch blackIn the small mud-floored kitchen, around the kitchen fire bordered by 3 large stones (to put the pots on), the middle son is home with his…Aug 4, 2014Aug 4, 2014
Nicole RademacherinFacing Inside SurfacesHow long is 10 years?‘So he is your husband?’ I ask. She nods yes.Aug 4, 2014Aug 4, 2014
Nicole RademacherinFacing Inside SurfacesBlack OnionsFirst she peels them, and then she grates them. She is *Faith the “house help”. Kenyans don’t like skins, she explains. Actually, she tells…Aug 4, 2014Aug 4, 2014
Nicole RademacherinFacing Inside SurfacesWash DayEsther washes all the clothes on Saturdays. “I don’t have help come in, so Saturday is the only day that I can wash everything.” Almost…Aug 4, 2014Aug 4, 2014
Nicole RademacherinFacing Inside SurfacesCooking*Wanjiru doesn’t like to cook, but she has been cooking her whole life, she tells me bluntly as she picks through the red mung bean (a bean…Aug 4, 2014Aug 4, 2014
Nicole RademacherinFacing Inside SurfacesA third note from KenyaIn Nairobi, you can make time stand still. I’m contemplating the stationary second hand on the watch of the woman next to me. She quietly…Aug 4, 2014Aug 4, 2014