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Those Who Weep 1 Drawing

Bonita Alice

South Africa

Drawing, Colored Pencil on Paper

Size: 7 W x 11.2 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

The series Those Who Weep is part of my ongoing experimentation with the medium of woollen dust and archival glue on paper. In an earlier (ongoing) series I began to fragment the image into a pattern of dots of colour suggesting something viewed through and partially obscured by, a latticework screen. Both series allude to our need to experience selectively anything that may be too difficult or challenging to face directly. This is of course how our unconscious protects us from too much that may hurt us. In these images it is our relationship with the natural environment that concerns us and how we can’t always face the knowledge of the destruction and pain around us. The title refers to our difficulty in recognising our role in the problems we see. We may weep, but can we live differently and commit to doing less harm, including, in the end, to ourselves? The medium here has the appearance of felt against the paper background. In fact the woollen 'dust' is applied in dust form to individually painted areas of glue in a slow and painstaking process. The felt-like surface is reminiscent of children's craft or toys. It suggests the transience of our dust-to-dust presence, and perhaps also an idea somehow cushioned or softened to make it less painful.

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Colored Pencil on Paper

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7 W x 11.2 H x 0.1 D in

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I am a South African artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. I lectured in Sculpture in Johannesburg before moving to London in 2007. I returned to South Africa in 2020. My work reflects my concern with our emotional dependence on the natural environment, and our conflicted and inconsistent relationship with other animals. I am preoccupied with the idea, reflected in my artistic practice, that we suffer some kind of emotional disruption when we are inattentive and don’t recognise our duty of stewardship to the natural world of which we are a part. The result is internal, or emotional, chaos - individual or collective - in the human world which is expressed in external crises; in environmental destruction, for example. My work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Durban Art Gallery, The UNISA (University of SA) Art Gallery, The SA Reserve Bank, Standard Bank Collection, WAM (Art Museum of the University of the Witwatersrand).

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