CONTRAST

Poverty rises as riches fall. The contrast of informal and formal living standards is a scene that signifies warring emotions. The falling buildings represent the structures that have held humanity and are failing to stand, increasing poverty. l use the shangaan bag to collage as windows, to the effect that each to his own, as in, dust to dust, the recycling of life. Nothing stands forever, no matter how strongly engineered

  • CONTRAST
  • Nkosinathi Thomas Ngulube
  • 2021
  • Hessian on Board
  • Artist's left thumbprint in signature bottom right
  • 67 x 55 cm