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Safe Travels Uyinene Print
South Africa
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8 x 12 in ($40)
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About The Artwork
This artwork is a uniquely vibrant piece of modern Africa’s heart – it is a prayer, a blessing and a call for help. The bird reaching down symbolizes the sacrifice of Uyinene, a black South African student who was brutally raped and murdered by a post-office worker. The tiger stands for the power born of this sacrifice reaching into the vast potential of an unformed landscape. The death of Uyinene became a standard around which South African women stood for weeks, saying ENOUGH. The painting is a reflection that death itself can bring life, that we all live through thousands of deaths in our lifetime and that each death is necessary for the birth to come. Little birds can become tigers in the unchartered landscapes of our souls and the world responds. The style of the artwork is fluid with visible brush marks. It is inspired by boldness of graphic art and the detail of eastern art with the vibrant tones that is proudly South African. It is a small work compared to some of my others and it is precious to me. I cried while creating this work – with anger and pain and sadness. And at the end I was left with these colours and shapes that I can share with you. The water-colour drawing/painting is executed on 120 gm Amedeo watercolour paper. This piece is best viewed while enjoying dark chocolate flavoured with bits of chili.
Original Created:2019
Subjects:Animal
Materials:Paper
Styles:RealismFolkExpressionism
Mediums:WatercolorInkPencil
Details & Dimensions
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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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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