Following are bodies of work that have been created over time, ever evolving, mapping and re-shaping both the artwork and the maker.

 

 

“When you listen to somebody else, what they say becomes a part of you, whether you like it or not.”

David Bohm, Quantum Physicist.

 

All artists are able to display their craft without the exertion and engagement that marks a performance of the soul. An artist can simply project his or her persona while remaining detached from the performance and the audience. But if you are ‘working the sounds’ – if you are involved in something that engages you; confronting your own prejudices, fears and limitations, rather than merely presenting what you already know; feeling your own discomfort and taking that discomfort into the terrain where the truth exposes you – then you are quite possibly in the territory of vision. You are close to grasping the mystery of the healing. You are then, only then, within reach of the gift that you can bring back to the world…. Once you have glimpsed this vision, then you are indeed a participant. And the duality between you and your audience, you and your work, becomes an illusion. And you have written a poem. You have done a performance. You have enfleshed beauty. You have made it matter. And the community, taking part in the art, completes the last line of the blues refrain, initiating a new reality.

Estella Conwill Majozo