Cameroonian soils have a vast range of colours. Whilst in Yaoundé, I was intrigued by the redness of the earth. Without knowing what I would do with it, I brought a sample to Buea.

I was travelling across the country for my internship at the Doul'art Art Centre. I decided to move soils from one city to another. I would choose a neighbourhood, unfold my backpack into a plinth and dig a hole. Then, I'd put the soil gathered previously on top of that plinth. It acquired another status, became sculptural, differed with its surroundings. Finally, I'd used that same dirt to fill the hole and I would take the one that I had dug out. I would repeat the same gestures somewhere else.

It took me a while to understand the implications of these gestures and the questions that it could raise, related to history, colonialism and post/neo-colonialism, property, authority, cultural belonging. This work relates to larger issues of power, dominance, longing and belonging. It took place in 2013.