Visual artist and muralist Lisolomzi Pikoli aka Mr Fuzzy Slippers will be conducting a walkabout on his work titled Man Like Mountain: Of Memory and Scar at Keleketla! Library on Friday the 24th of February.
His work generally focuses on the human figure and its relation to line, shape and form. This is coupled with themes around outer body experiences, past experiences, thoughts, dreams and the magical are used as channels to express what he experiences internally. He speaks from the position of a second generation urbanized South African and draws on history that he explains as being genetically embedded within us and alive in different ways.
Man Like Mountain: Of Memory and Scar is a project that he has been working on over the past two and a half years, and has culminated into an exhibition and publication.
Lisolomzi uses the mountain as a visual metaphor to think about the human life cycle. In the same way that the mountain gets formed through force and collision, and is shaped by the elements, so too does the human life cycle get formed through struggle and different influences in the world, sometimes leaving scars. “But they [the scars] remind you of something. That you still stand and you are still here,” Lisolomzi expresses.
The publication itself has four different paragraphs, which serve as four seasons. Each section has its own tale and its own tone which will be expanded on during the walkabout on Friday. The walkabout will showcase all the original works included in the publication.