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Simphiwe Ndzube Quotes

born 1990 South Africa

Simphiwe Ndzube (born. 1990 in Hofmeyr, Eastern Cape, South Africa) is a South African painter of Xhosa origin currently living and working in Los Angeles.

South Africa
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It’s not premeditated but an intention to arrive [at and] to make work that feels like it is saying something.

Doing this thing on your own has been exceptionally hard.

I made these portraits as a way to kind of … add my people into my universe.

I’ve been focusing on taking care of myself, making the work, and doing the bit that I can.

I’m learning to walk on my hands and feet, so to speak. I think that we all are.

I bought plants the other day.

I can kind of play around with materials and pull things around … you know, kind of go back and forth.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simphiwe Ndzube (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.