This work is the left piece of Triptych “Withering Heart”, exploring the withering heart of man, in black and white reflecting the artist's South African past. An inherited burden that holds, cut both ways, edged into body, vulnerable in charcoal, shadowing, earthy closeness to identity, farm life of birth, his African roots.

Black and white forced to meet at centre, identity and birth- origin, an exiled identity layered in tones the body balance in between white scream and black soul.