Wonderboy Nxumalo; South African 1975-2008; Basa Umlilo Ngaphandle Kuka Matches (Making A Fire Without Matches)
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Notes : This work depicts a troop of baboons at sunrise near the 'Sounding River'. The leader magically points fire at a bucket of maize and cooks a meal for his fellows. One of the baboons overindulges and develops a stomach ache. In the Spirit of our Stories project, 1995, a group of rural artists from the Ardmore Ceramic Studio at Winterton worked in a medium that was new to most of them at the time, printmaking, at the Caversham Press. The artists' skill in working in a narrative tradition lent itself to the translation of images from 3-dimensional ceramic forms into 2-dimensional prints. The images the artists produced include interpretations of dreams, references to folklore and bible stories, and observations from the world around them.
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