The need for power is a global issue.

This is a video art installation piece, to a song by AngelHaze, “There's no Church in the Wild”, originally performed by Kanye West and featuring Jay-Z, the lyrics have been changed by Angel Haze. These lyrics and the tone of the song have been influential to me in the last couple of months and have sparked my creative imagination within the issues that currently preoccupy me.

I chose to cover myself in black, and to remain as anonymous as possible in the piece, because I am “everyman”. I represent any race, colour, creed or oppressed person in the world.

The song speaks about the world, our leaders and the people. In my installation piece I have fused south African history with modern day language and global issues, highlighting the fact, that the past does repeat itself. The south African struggle of race issues and men in power who have abused that power, is not only just a south African struggle but a people struggle world wide. This struggle does not only encompass racial divides but also schisms caused through religious beliefs and general prejudice about specific ideologies and dogmas that countries, cultures and the like choose to adopt. 

My final slogan – Lex – Jailed since '93 is about my own imprisonment since birth, and how I feel that society is forcing me to conform to the way it wants the world to be.

My thinking behind the whole work, is to question our present and our past. The leaders we have chosen - are they really standing up for the people they lead? I use Nelson Mandela footage to show what a great leader did and how he brought a whole nation together. Whereas Hendrik Verwoerd, took a whole country and oppressed it, through non sustainable and inhumane policies.  

I have always left my creativity and art to be interpreted by one's own perceptions, my point is to get the people to start thinking beyond their own self interest.