b'5587MOSES MASAYA (Shona-Zimbabwe, 194795),Eagle and young,stone sculpture,incised MOSES MASAYA to base,height 60cmMoses Masaya was born in Inyanga in 1947, the son of aAt the time of McEwens enforced departure from Zimbabwe village headman. Like many other major sculptors, Masaya(then Rhodesia) in 1973, Masaya was a young artist on the was influenced to sculpt by Joram Mariga, whose workthreshold of his career. He probably suffered more than he first saw in 1968. Two years later, he joined the ruralmost as a result of McEwens departure and the subsequent community of sculptors at Vukutu, which had recently beenbreak-up of the Vukutu Community. He managed to survive established by Frank McEwen. McEwen had invited Masayathe difficulties (political, economic, social and artistic) of the to join established more established artists there because he1970s, however, and emerged in the post-independence considered him to be a young sculptor of tremendous promise. period, as a mature artist who fulfilled his early promise.Masaya, in common with the other major Zimbabwean$1,0002,000sculptors, readily acknowledged McEwens role in creating an environment conductive to free and uninhibited artistic expression. He credited McEwen with making him more aware of the sculptural possibilities of a piece of raw stone. According to Masaya, McEwen would encourage him to look carefully at the raw stone, asking, What can you see in it? McEwen never would attempt to suggest an answer. He would simply pose the question, leaving the artist to provide his own answer and convert his own mental image into a sculpted form.87'