PRICE R46,667Oil on canvas
W: 1120mm x H: 1180mm
W: 44" x H: 46"
Framed, but can be supplied framed or unframed.
New years day 1991. I had been unable to sleep after DJ-ing the whole night at "Play at 330" night club. I headed for Battery Beach. It was a bright bright summer day and the sea shore was a sea of silhouetted figures bathing in the surf. And then I saw her.
And as I watched her, fascinated, she seemed to grow in stature, becoming larger and larger.
She began to 'glow' - some form of immeasurable cord thread between us - as if she was being seen for the first time.
Mamma Africa appeared nude in my painting and in a 'traditionally submissive' pose. However, her expression is anything but submissive. Her body silhouette echoes the map of Africa. As you view the painting, her stature becomes enormous. She has carried her load, the burden of the African Woman, with dignity and endurance. She is capable carrying a lot more, but at the same time dares anybody to further burden her.
She has had enough.
For me this painting represents the TRANSITIONAL STATE (a point of REALISATION) of the 'traditional' African Woman to the modern urbanised African Woman.
(NOTE: it has been extremely difficult to reproduce the colours of this painting more accurately)
