Lesley Magwood Fraser breaks a heart

[Nancy Bell Scott]

This piece is so affecting that it's hard to do it justice: Lesley says that these are "ghost" images from monoprints she did. How fitting for the subject--a man who was not there--due, as I understand it, to apartheid. The poem she includes as part of the art refers, as it says on the back of her note, to the slang-word for the pass that all black African people had to carry at all times ("dompas") and to the slang-word for a police pick-up van ("kwela-kwela").

This is very moving work, Lesley, and I'm fortunate that you entrusted me with it. It's profoundly beautiful and sad, in the same way that so many of us feel sorrow over the injustices around us, whether close by or far away, and usually they are both. Thank you so much for this poignant reminder of why we stay aware and why our mission to create is so needed.

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

It  is so nice to get such great feedback from my IUOMA mates, I tend to underestimate my work so to hear such praise is fantastic, thanks to all of you dear hearts.

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Yes CPsa, that LMF sent it to me is indeed lucky for me--it's beautiful, meaningful.

[cheryl penn]

LMF - FAB!! NBF - Lucky you :-) X

[Svenja Wahl]

Wonderful work, Lesley, beautiful

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

Thanks for posting Nancy....

[Marie Wintzer]

This is sooooo beautiful.....