Artwork

Tshepo

2023 Competition entry

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Mojalefa Mokheseng

Details:
Not Signed
Acrylic
65cm x 94.5cm
R20 000.00
Description:
Almost all the boys and girls in the townships are at home after finishing grade 12 not because they wish to be there or are too lazy to find schools to further their studies, but because the circumstances are hard for them to do so with not getting any funding and applications declining. It is even harder to find jobs in their gap years to not just sit and do nothing, with the papers of CVs on the table showing just a countless number of CVs some of the youth has to send out for employment without even a single one being selected, they would sit at home for many years doing nothing and this may put them under pressure for them to end up abusing harmful substances or doing rag fewer things in the townships and with that leading up to an increase in crime.

Alcohol and drugs are the only option for them to endure the pain and peer pressure plays a role also coming in hard on them and they end up losing hope that tomorrow things will change. R350 highlighted on the table is such a trivial amount of money from the government paid to the unemployed monthly since covid 19, even though it is dependent for some individuals to use it for little important things, some use it and that is mostly the youth for alcohol in ”groove” (parties) and other useless things.

The table with the slingshot on top of the CV papers indicates or rather symbolises job hunting and how it is tough for the youth to find decent jobs that go with what they have studied. Now this slingshot is broken showing that aiming so hard and even getting close to hitting the right job, expectations always get broken and they lose to someone who is a family member to the job, someone who has paid a bribe, someone who is a friend with someone in the job, etc. corruption is worse in this country because without connections you cannot get a job, even when qualifications are excellent.

Everything on the table from where the paraffin lamp shines highlights some of the things that the minority of this country or the society at large go find themselves under with no prosperity and even today there is no development. The paraffin lamp and the phone show that through everything that society has been facing loadshedding has been one of the bigger problems adding up to the struggles which came with long upsetting power cuts. The lamp shines on the table and it is in colour done with water paint which is to get the eyes first of the viewer as it is the focal point of the drawing, it is a mixed media work and the choice of mediums used, charcoal, oil pastels, water paint, and graphite. The darkness represents how dark it gets on load-shedding moments especially at night and with the sparking yellow lights of the dragonfly, this is done to show how great mother nature is even through dark days and the flowers around the head of the muse represent how he can only dream with hope that tomorrow comes everything he can ever hope for to achieve goals that can change his life.

Now the young man in the portrait shows an emotion of loss in hope (Tshepo), a defeat in all the struggle and with his eyes closed he can only imagine and dream about a perfect and productive future because of the exhausting or current depressing situations in this country especially in the townships, the future does not seem promising.

Acrylic

Detail
Tags

Mojalefa Mokheseng

Details:
Not Signed
Acrylic
65cm x 94.5cm
R20 000.00

Description:
Almost all the boys and girls in the townships are at home after finishing grade 12 not because they wish to be there or are too lazy to find schools to further their studies, but because the circumstances are hard for them to do so with not getting any funding and applications declining. It is even harder to find jobs in their gap years to not just sit and do nothing, with the papers of CVs on the table showing just a countless number of CVs some of the youth has to send out for employment without even a single one being selected, they would sit at home for many years doing nothing and this may put them under pressure for them to end up abusing harmful substances or doing rag fewer things in the townships and with that leading up to an increase in crime.

Alcohol and drugs are the only option for them to endure the pain and peer pressure plays a role also coming in hard on them and they end up losing hope that tomorrow things will change. R350 highlighted on the table is such a trivial amount of money from the government paid to the unemployed monthly since covid 19, even though it is dependent for some individuals to use it for little important things, some use it and that is mostly the youth for alcohol in ”groove” (parties) and other useless things.

The table with the slingshot on top of the CV papers indicates or rather symbolises job hunting and how it is tough for the youth to find decent jobs that go with what they have studied. Now this slingshot is broken showing that aiming so hard and even getting close to hitting the right job, expectations always get broken and they lose to someone who is a family member to the job, someone who has paid a bribe, someone who is a friend with someone in the job, etc. corruption is worse in this country because without connections you cannot get a job, even when qualifications are excellent.

Everything on the table from where the paraffin lamp shines highlights some of the things that the minority of this country or the society at large go find themselves under with no prosperity and even today there is no development. The paraffin lamp and the phone show that through everything that society has been facing loadshedding has been one of the bigger problems adding up to the struggles which came with long upsetting power cuts. The lamp shines on the table and it is in colour done with water paint which is to get the eyes first of the viewer as it is the focal point of the drawing, it is a mixed media work and the choice of mediums used, charcoal, oil pastels, water paint, and graphite. The darkness represents how dark it gets on load-shedding moments especially at night and with the sparking yellow lights of the dragonfly, this is done to show how great mother nature is even through dark days and the flowers around the head of the muse represent how he can only dream with hope that tomorrow comes everything he can ever hope for to achieve goals that can change his life.

Now the young man in the portrait shows an emotion of loss in hope (Tshepo), a defeat in all the struggle and with his eyes closed he can only imagine and dream about a perfect and productive future because of the exhausting or current depressing situations in this country especially in the townships, the future does not seem promising.

Acrylic