“Nu Chika Enabuka” is a journey in search of our Ethiopian identity that has been concealed through time. Before urban settlement spilled over city limits and the clean soil was smeared with trash, it is safe to assume that all Ethiopians grew up playing with mud,no matter which ethnic background we have been born and raised in. Whether we realize it or not, the process of mixing, rolling, and shaping mud we spent our childhood in, that initial journey into our imagination, has laid the foundation for our individual personalities our thirst for art, and our investigative skills and curiosity. It has allowed us to nurture a keen spirit that drove our creativity through our attempt to make something different from our peers out of pure clay and helped us maintain an uninterrupted connection with nature through repeated mixing of mud. Playing with mud and childhood are deeply intertwined. From the time a baby starts crawling, s/he will automatically start playing with mud if they come across it and eventually start shaping the clay into whatever they conceive in their imagination. Then they will knock down their creation and roll it all up into a ball of clay, ready to start again. We spent our childhood as such. As our mind develops, our creative works begin to gain clarity and our experience and skills get refined.