Team Mukakasa

A face mask worn to harvest fields. Sewn from silk sailed home from Thailand and India. Hidden behind it: a woman you cannot read, dressed in one of the most extraordinary costumes in Scandinavian history. The national dress of Fanø has fascinated me for years. Pattern mixing. Material richness. The quiet power of a face that refuses to be seen.

"He learned his craft not in a classroom, but in the workshops of Copenhagen craftsmen, touching clay, wood, silver, leather and steel before he was old enough to study design formally."

In many Western markets, African craftsmanship is often labeled as “cheap.” Cup circle caught on film in Zanzibar- photographer: Laila-Sophie Surges Whether it’s a carved mask, a woven basket, or a piece of hand-dyed fabric, these objects are frequently undervalued — seen more as souvenirs than serious cultural or artistic expressions. But this perception says more about the structures of global inequality than it does about the craftsmanship itself. Behind this devaluation is a tangled...