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Girl balancing cigarette on lips

2018 Competition entry

Katlego Mogoera

Details:
Not Signed
Photograph on canvas
30 cm x 40 cm

Description:

This is a photograph of a teenage girl balancing a cigarette on her lips.  She has many piercings and tattoos on her body.  This photograph is all about hurtful words people say about people and some even say them to their face, when they don’t even know them.

She is looking at the viewer with daring eyes, as if she is already expecting to be judged.  The piercings symbolise the many times people have pierced her with wounding comments.  The cigarette smoke bends with her hair, like it’s become part of her, just like unkind words stick with a person and become part of them.