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Becoming Water
Lungelo Manona
In Lungelo Manona’s “Becoming of the canvas, revealing the skull’s water that characterises the life
Water”, a human head, modelled in fragility. It is traced through with force. Instead of respecting this
clay, is mounted on canvas painted dried-mud cracks. The work, natural dynamism, humankind risks
with heavy impasto to mimic the however, is coated with a “wet- an extremism that will destroy it
rippled water into which the head look” glaze, capturing the immense (signified by the cracked, parched
sinks. Light shines through the back energetic tension between fire and skull of a being who, in truth, is
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