12×12 inches, currently at Cappaert Contemporary Gallery
This piece has been in the making for many months. I started probably back in early fall and mostly completed in late fall. And it could have been done… but I just knew it needed something. So it hung on my studio wall for several months. I have been out of the studio for most of this January, busy with projects that are not art related. Today I finally got in to the studio and I knew immediately what the painting needed.
This afternoon I added the brass strip. I’m not normally a brassy type, but I think this piece really needed that bright brass. It makes me happy. And that is good.
And the title? Well not surprising that I embrace both the light and the dark of life. We need both. Not to dwell too much in either.
-Matshona Dhliwayo