Light Leak
c. 21st century
Anonymous


Situations, conditions, spaces, places, everywhere and nowhere, lies the fundamental of our inherent existence. We do all that is there and sometimes necessary to, in order to do all that we can ever want to do. This being so compels or rather constantly throws us at inescapable situations, affecting the manner in which we condition our thoughts and ways of seeing.

In an effort to survive such a state of affairs it is only human to condition and adjust our mental realm by exciting positive thoughts as a means of sustaining our sanity. Hope, dreams, desires, anticipation, fantasy and love are all but some of the common responses to situations. And these can vary ranging from the most compassionate to the most loathsome.

Our memory is the internal world through which we begin to decipher, comprehend and interact in constant dialogue with the external world. Within this dialogue, there exists a number of punctures, pierced by our own systems of knowledge processing. Corrosive in its nature and unforgiving, the human mind is known to be the worst enemy to itself.

‘Light Leak’, as an immediate visual reference to ‘Touching Moments’ 2008, it carries relations and layers of meanings through which our perceptive and active response in relation to this very text unlocks the underlying implications we, as humans, exist in. It is a ‘light leak’ as the title suggests, control, surveillance, voyeuristic and sinister undertones are implied. Well if you haven’t already picked that up. It defines both tangible and intangible boundaries. Inside and outside. Is it the control of the outside from the inside? A mere realization of our inability to have absolute control maybe? It’s all in the mind, it begins there, manifests in relation to external world and is decoded and perceived by the mind again. Well, a touching moment…

Loyiso Qanya