God’s fruit
God’s fruit
So beautifully sweet and full of seed
How can you possibly resist?
For the Lord did place them on this earth to eat
There is little that can be done about it
You must feast
You must savour their juices
You must coat your tongue with their blood
God’s fruit
Replenishing our soils one by one
This was not God’s plan
For the tree was to be remain untouched
Untouched by the hands of man
There is so much that can be done about it
You must stop
God’s fruit
Oozing with strength and pain
Need not bleed out alone
- Masego Boitumelo Maloka
Gender-based violence is a plague that has spread throughout our nation. These prints are in conversation with this issue, drawing inspiration from the work of Penelope Siopis. A clear link can be identified between Siopis and myself. The direct usage of a similar subject matter as well as visual composition allows for me to evoke emotive response with regard to ills against women in South Africa. In this way, printmaking becomes a vehicle of protest art. The mark-making process itself has an insane emotive contribution; rough and angry yet the results are beautiful. Strong images that tell the nasty truth that often times something that is meant to be painful can be mistaken as aesthetic.
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