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When it comes to our history… and how it has been written. How does one grapple with it? How does one attempt to be sane?

— Dineo Seshee Bopape

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My focus is to separate what has created the self [and] what is the representation of personality and group identity.

My work developed out of a paranoid expression of drawing boundaries between things private and things public, and an obsessive safekeeping of such.

Sometimes it’s more about resting. Things flow easier when there’s less pressure.

I’ll be working with soil and clay, and hopefully feathers.

I think everybody is a post-colonial artist; we’re all living in post-colonial societies.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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