Life as a Canvas for Art: Nelson Guda at TEDxNapaValley

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Nelson Guda shares his motivations and ideas as part of the TEDxNapaValley 2014 "Going Against The Grain, embracing the unconventional" event.
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Nelson Guda has traveled around the world trying to understand how people move from places of extreme darkness back into the light and express it in his art. The U.S. artist has worked in paint, ink, glass, steel, emulsion and electrons. His latest project, "ENEMIES," began in East Africa in 2011, where he brought people together from opposite sides of brutal conflicts in the slums of Kenya, the border of Sudan and South Sudan and the killing fields of Rwanda. In the ENEMIES Project, Nelson sees the act of seeking out conflict and resilience as a form of art in its highest sense of expression of the human experience.

Nelson holds a PhD in biology and helped found an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Texas in Austin.

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