I'll Go to Jericho

There is a seeming innate need for man, in all times and places, to express himself artistically. This is an intellectual and spiritual desire that is bound up in the very nature of his being human. The journey promises much but is fraught with uncertainty and even actual danger. Evans Nyongesa is a painter and sculptor, an artist therefore and symbolically on the journey of life, in his case from Jerusalem to Jericho. He is currently missing from their slum home. Family and close friends are looking for him. As the days go by and he still does not turn up despair and panic grip them. They search and ask around, without success. As this goes on the character and perspectives of the various people around him is brought to bar on him and the situation, building up a composite view of the artist, and also the role of art in man’s intellectual and spiritual endeavor in life and existence. With these also, complex and intractable problems are brought to bear: poverty, urbanization, development, crime and the human spirit. We feel the tension of presence and absence, innate in art, like a paradox, which eventually to a gripping tale with a poignant end.