and then we wept: madonna and child but without the child because she probably got killed by a south african man somewhere

and then we wept is an ode to mothers, the real madonna’s, mothers of targeted angels. black mothers.

a black madonna is, in an art world that is very colonialised with western identity, unconventional imagery.

however, the whole idea of a madonna, is built upon the grieving mother to a saviour.

south africa finds itself with unwilling martyrs, and the madonna’s behind these martyrs are left to weep and mourn.