Ukuzala komthwalo (Giving birth to burderned load)

Artist Statement: In this drawing I speak about the irony of a women giving birth to a child that will eventually abuse her.  It is ironic that abusive men hurt women who are the initial givers of life,through birth. Mothers nuture and carry  lives in their wombs.

 I feel as though in the patriarchal society I live in,women are not treated as well as they should be. I wanted to use the male genitalia as the childs body  as a metaphor for these kind of men. The childs face looks innocent ,almost naive , to show how I do not believe that male children are born abusive,but rather that the environment they grow up in influences this as well as the absence of a positive father figure.