Detail from the performance 'Patterns Outside My Head' by Janine Lewis, Rantebeng Makapan and Bonisile Nxumalo. As part of the FACE Ansisters 2005 event, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg.
"… shush now, sweet, sleep softly sleep whole and wrapped in black outside turns the earth, ah and oh so softly bloused in blue let the wind take your heartbeat let the water your eyes take your ears let the rain take you child black child veld child no one ever mentions child breast child thirsty the wind is full of heaven with my voice on my way to you
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