September • 30 • 2020
Abena Motaboli
Vastness
Abena Motaboli, Yesterday these sentiments came tumbling down, plastic, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.
The vastness where we lie is wide open.
It is a space
It is a place
It is the white basin with nothing but the sound of your breath
Soft waters standing still
Clear as the ice beneath our feet.
The vastness is a vastness like no other
She takes you with her
And when you think about all the things that were
The things that are
And the things that will be,
You let her take you
And you
B r e a t h e

Abena Motaboli, Yesterday these sentiments came tumbling down, plastic, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.

Abena Motaboli is a Chicago based educator, facilitator, and visual artist. Influenced by her home country Lesotho and Southern African culture, she invites the audience to find a space to contemplate in, amidst the chaos which surrounds us in the modern world. Her art practice is performative, contemplative, and transformative. She uses ephemeral material including tea and coffee on canvas as well as writing and other visual forms of art to comment on displacement and her past memories.
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