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I'm Tanya Mosley, and today my guest is Blitz Baza Wule, the director of the 2023 musical film adaptation of Alice Walker's the Color Purple and the Burial of Kojo, his directorial debut about gold mining in Africa.
Blitz has a new exhibit of paintings that explore memories of his formative years growing up in Ghana.
I stopped by his exhibit.
Those were the days in Los Angeles, two floors of paintings that blitz created during the pandemic years.
They feature slices of his childhood in Accra, kids playing soccer in the street, a man playing drums, a stylish family enjoying a birthday celebration.
The exhibit allows visitors to interact with it.
So an example, I'm standing in a bright fuchsia room.
You can hear the sounds of a fan behind me, and there's an old time gramophone.
There's this table with an ornate tea set and a comfy chair.
And when I sit down, I'm facing Blitz's painting, which depicts the very scene of this room.
So it feels like I've stepped right into the painting.
Blitz's exhibit gave me a vivid sense of growing up in Accra and his love of the visual arts.