A wispy faceless figure runs with his hand in the air, at his feet a drunken donkey-faced man lies holding a bottle and another figure which looks to be a young man playing, is evident in the art piece too. Behind the wispy figure is an etching of the Johannesburg skyline.
I was to later find out that the piece was very much a political statement, it was the artist's Azael Langa's comment following the deaths of women at the hands of their partners.Men, he says, were seemingly absent and silent during this period. "I started feeling a certain energy within. I started using it after the loss of my brother as a sense of healing because for the longest time I have been using it, but there was no connection. There was that sense of energy and you want to know, you want to find out what it is because when I paint with it there is a sense of joy, there is a sense of healing.
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