One | re-encounter
re-encounter is exploring the external architecture of Lozi culture in its provincial and hybrid manifestations; a visual poem of self love.
The collection of photographs is an intuitive introduction into my Lozi ancestral context over the course of 11 months. For your eyes and the I’s whose shoulders I stand upon.
re-encounter works with hemp silk, 35mm film and digital photography to foreground my introspective journey into the indigenous soul.
A texture of time that is is restless, re-encounter threads images from the Western Province of Zambia and the Western Cape of South Africa; weaving together an archive of decolonial decadence.
We are descended from stars and gathering the scattered pieces of ourselves.
The question is do we feel worthy of self knowledge?
It is death to ego, a sacred suicide
It is a laying down of bones
from third eye cranium to jointed toes
we are not learning something new, we are remembering.
The opening of re-encounter took place on the evening of the Supermoon- 14.11.16
praises
The Dream Continues in a Restless Resevoir (i found my undrwater cave)
analog/digital
Table Mountain/Zambezi River
Barotlesland Corridor & Double Consciousness
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
January's Full Moon & The Dream Continues in a restless Resevoir (i found my underwater cave)
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
To look an Elder in the Third Eye & I kneel as Mukwae Mboanjikana decodes my life in a tongue unfamiliar to me
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Kezeli kwa Atlantis
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Atlantis Strolling
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Kezeli Carry i & Kezeli Lean on on i
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Bless Up
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
& the ceiling took on a Texture of Time
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
detail
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
detail II
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
outside view
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Barotseland Corridor & Double Consciousness
Photographs from Decolonial Daydreams one | re-encounter exhibition
printed on hemp silk
taken at Wolff Architects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town