There will never be full compatibility in human relationships. Be it platonic, familial, or romantic. Only openness to dialogue guarantees continuity. The pursuit of relationships does not seek full compatibility as much as it seeks understanding/consensus. That we agree to leverage the best of each other to achieve a collective goal and minimise the alternative, which can only be realised through communication.
Because it is this conversation that helps map out the areas of incompatibility for resolution or parting. You must be open to conversation if you seek human connection, or contend with a sugarcane for a partner.
You make one painting that sells well.
You make another similar.
A collector asks for something "like" the last piece they bought.
A gallerist gently suggests experimental work should "stay in the studio" while we show "work people connect with."
Meaning: work people buy.
Helen Mmapula Mmakgoba Sibidi is a South African artist. Sebidi's work has been represented in private and public collections, including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington and New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, New York, and the World Bank. Her work has been recognised internationally and locally. In 1989, she won the Standard Bank Young Artist award, becoming the first black woman to win the award. Image Source: The Artist Press
Stixx is super mature for his age, I hear the Kent and Jimmy Dludlu song but there’s a gem that was released in 1983 that he touched, Tania Maria’s “Come With Me”, like do you understand the level of music education you need to have to even think of remixing Tania Maria
🎥🎭SOWETO - the passion ... the pain (1998)
A sneak peek into how a Gibson Kente rehearsal looked like in the 70s. Mam'Mary Twala is SINGING okay!
Kente’s theatre can be read as early “mass media” in a context where Black voices were excluded from dominant press, radio, and television. His productions travelled, drawing huge audiences in community halls, and word of mouth. He created a counter-public sphere, an alternative network of knowledge and performance that bypassed state-controlled media.
To me he demystified theatre it was no longer an elite or distant practice, but something ordinary people could attend, participate in, and even aspire to make. He turned performance into a tool of social identity and collective memory.
One of our most accomplished artist Mme Helen Sebidi, we gave you your flowers last nite, thanks for putting South Africa on the map, thank you DP @PaulMashatile 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🥹🥹🥹🙏🙏🙏🙏
South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV, c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent 9 weeks at No. 1 spot.
We really need to organise a national braai for Dan Corder, this was a generation cooking. Ernst Roets has been mumbling on these shows without any South African to counter his lies, good to see him tossed around