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T-24 Elephant Drawing
South Africa
Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
Size: 33.9 W x 45.7 H x 1.6 D in
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About The Artwork
This artwork was conceptualized on the day that Avaaz (environmentalist and social activist NGO) announced that we have twenty-four months left to save the planet. The work places emphasis on how we as humans are vulnerable in the extreme to the change that we are causing on a global environmental scale. The rock star of the visual arts, William Kentridge, has a freedom in his linework and a playfulness with darkness that I emulate.The artwork is looking for a way to enter conversation around conservation and the sacred responsibility we have to our own humanness to keep nature alive. Audiences are numbed to the point of denial and powerlessness by accusing images of tortured animals .This work is opens the conversation from a place of inner connection and truth, rather than an outwards, distancing experience. As a South African, I mourn and am angered by the loss of elephants to the insanity of (inter)national greed. Elephants stand for the communal spirit of my country and it feels as if because elephants are cruelly slaughtered to the point of extinction, we are losing a part of our own spirit and that our failure to protect them make us/ me culpable in this spirit-death too. Derwent charcoal and Winton&Newton water-colour paint was used to ensure the richest tones and highest quality work. A layer of fixative was sprayed as a final step to seal the charcoal to the paper. The work is professionally framed with a natural wood-finish and has sturdy hanging equipment attached to the back of the frame.
Details & Dimensions
Drawing:Charcoal on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:33.9 W x 45.7 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:South Africa.
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South Africa
I use painting and drawing as tools for telling stories, and I use my story-like images to find a way to create a connection between the viewer’s own inner narratives and to the current environmental issues that are looming over our very existence. It is my stance that humans share a universal language of wonder, humour and curiosity. By allowing myself to engage with this part of myself when I play with art materials, I reach for the wonder in other people. My work becomes a type of spiritual activism in that it draws on attitudes that connects us at our core, rather than focusing on cerebral narratives of power and elitism. I use vestiges of already-existing mythology to allow the familiar stories to guide the more unfamiliar ideas closer into the viewer’s frame of acceptance and embrace. My aim as an artist is to absolutely insist on the relationship we have with nature as alive and I argue for the symbiotic necessity of relationships between non-human and non-human. My artwork is a testament to my clumsy inward fumbling of getting to know my humanness as much part of nature as what any other creature is. With each of my artworks sold, a donation from the selling price is made to an environmental cause, such as Friends Of Free Wildlife http://www.friendsoffreewildlife.co.za/
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