More from Zanele

Its 5am, i woke up, cleaned my room, did some filing and then had to come and blog. First thing i went to find more of zanele's work, which i seem to love, not only because she is lesbian but beause her work is amazing and she is South African, so i give thanks and much appreciation and even more exposure. From the work and the exhibitions i have found her work is in ur face, she is not afraid to break boundaries and create art that not many black woman would think off going public with. The themes she seems to cover is that of black women and lesbianism particularly in South Africa and no, not the urban modernised black woman, but the ordinary one in the township. Her work depicts them carrying on with ordinary lives as apposed to what many may think the lesbian lifestyle may be limited to. These are women doing things like bathing, making love, taking walks hand in hand, going to work and the most in my face one, which I'm not such a fan of are the ones of menstruation. Its a vital part of our womanhood and is taboo still, something woman don't talk about much, its like our little secret that we all have, that unites us, but zanele, is like, here it is baby, blood in ur face, vagina's in ur face! other work of hers as u can see explores the body of the so called fat woman, showing that we r so bombarded with western images of the ideal "Paris Hilton" like body that we forget that there are ordinary woman who have beauty..wat ever way it may be, but these woman are fat and also their bodies are a kind of taboo, but Zanele puts gives u fat women in ur face. I also like the few pictures of nature she has taken, one of which a beautiful tree which takes on the shape of a womb or vagina... not very clear what it is, but is beautiful never the less. Think what you may of this woman, but she has talent & is using it unlike so many of us who are.... too afraid of our own possible success. she has been recognised, awarded and funded by some frendch org, she is both an artist and gay activists with one of her own orgs. enjoy! i will put up each piece with a comment!