Mthabisi Sithole – Swing-Set

Swing-set is 1 of 4 linocut plates I started working on through Danger Gevaar Ingozi studio in 2016. I took my relationship with poetry as a starting point to making marks on the plates. The process of carving them was initially idealised as adapting some of my poems to visual media. That then evolved into an exploration of my relationship with poetry and considering meaning-making through visual means. Printing some of the plates in 2020, I found that I am still in poetry as a means of understanding and engaging processes of making and being.  – Mthabisi Sithole