:: The Ancestors Return - Mural Design ::

:: Melkhoutfontein, Stilbaai, Western Cape, South Africa::
:: February & March 2016 - March & April 2017 - February & March 2018 ::

About the Project    Progress    Murals 2016    Murals 2017
Murals 2018    Murals 2019    Encounters with the Swift People

The Ancestors Return    Leopard Ppl    Ancestors Mural    Leopard Mural    Swift Family

:: 2019 - 45cm x 35cm - Acrylics, Inks & Markers on Canvas Board ::

In March 2017, I was able to visit an amazing Bushman rock art site in the Langeberg less than an hour's drive from Melkhoutfontein. One of the panels appeared to depict a healing dance with ancestors emerging from a crack in the rock to join the dance, and this inspired me to create the 2017 artwork And We Knew The Name Of The Rain. The idea of a community being rejoined by its ancestors stayed with me and eventually evolved into a mural design, which was eventually realised at Tooi's House in Harmonie Park, Melkhoutfontein.

The Ancestors nReturn

 

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