William Kentridge used visual symbols and metaphors to send the message of the struggles that people in South Africa were facing. What’s immediately interesting in this form of expression is “process”. When we see paintings/photographs or other forms of art hanging on a wall, they serve more as artifacts. The viewers and their subjectivity are left to decode the ‘meaning’ of the work without much evidence of how it came to be. The viewer must accept the work for what it is, like it or not. This video, on the other hand, is a more transformative journey and could be “hallucinatory” for the viewer. Instead of drawing separate images with variations, the author was reworking one single image over and again creating the sense of different movements and sequences. By photographing his charcoal drawings, the author produced an animated film, created narrative to present themes of love, death, suffering, violence, and other human emotions and events. Piece of paper is author’s frame for the sequence of the film, and the drawings are constantly partially redrawn or erased. The charcoal, because of its characteristics can be blended, erased, spread, and allows artists to easily transit from one scene to the next. The viewer’s thoughts are not much distracted by the colors, and therefore the attention goes to subject, …show more content…
They became connected through the telescope which “brought” impossible connection of two separate worlds into contact with each other. This metaphor represents Felix’s connection, memories of his African homeland that he had left. His homeland was suffering. The devastated landscapes, places where dead bodies were laying, were painted with red color over charcoal, and symbolize the violence that was part of South African history. The bodies were absorbed by the land. All the scenes provoke different