Moyo 2016

Crayon, color pencil, graphite, acrylic, paper collage and a seed of unknown gangsta genus, found on recreation yard, on board

38 x 51 cm

Reggie once told me that we could use these cells like meditation cells used by monks in monasteries.

The seed [placed in the eyebrow center of the portrait] represents potential. But the design of the piece and the use of minimal light is meant to call to mind a dim-lit space where a meditative mind can be found more easily.

I think that it is interesting that the seed was crushed in transport [traveling across the Atlantic in mail] being Reggie was also crushed.