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In the Barricade series, I have taken various elements of domestic security and assembled them into fortress like structures. These components of division are small symptoms of a much larger landscape of crime, fear, class divisions and urban separation. This milieu sits on a tower built by spatial and political legacies. At its foundation are colonialism, segregation and apartheid. On top of this are the manifestations of neocolonialism, neoliberalism and corruption. These sculptures are a snapshot of just one part of this giant matrix of separation.

Four of these sculptures showed at the A4 Arts Foundation in June 2022 in a show curated by Nkensani Mkhari called In Security.