The Restless Debt Of Third World Beauty

This is a piece directed by Rowan Pybus [1], artwork by FAITH47 [2], and music by Fletcher. [3]

FAITH47 has been doing graf art around South Africa for years now, my memory of parts of high ways, township walls and urban high rises has her perspective sprayed, painted and stenciled on them.

In an interview [4] she was asked, "Who is Faith47, where are you from?" She said, "I’m from South Africa. [The country] has raised me and given me hidings and heartaches.  I’m rooted here but I’m no believer in patriotism. Lines drawn on a map with a pencil are not in sync with nature. Therefore I belong to this world at large. I breathe, in the knowledge that death is certain [and] I am trying to fully catch each breath."

The beauty of my home country, wrapped up in suffering.