kith & kin

the black & white snaps of santu mofokeng were on display in london. it was cold, snowy, rainy and moody - london style. a friend and i hauled oursleves over to rivingtons palace for the opening night of santu's exhibition. wow wow wow. all of it so intensely familiar. one of my favourite pics describes a landscape so vast and yes, familiar, grey scale printed on bryth paper. it shows the tale end of a funeral procession, one with more people than cars. a man or at least his outline faintly dominates the foreground with the center of the pic containing a single deck municipal bus, following solemnly behind the rest of the procession. kith and kin motion on in stillness to bury their dead (the eternal rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those of us to follow). for all our shortcomings, we bury our dead in the most beautiful way, this picture - from a grey soaked london - reminded me of that small fact, reminded me of home