"Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, 2020"

This double portrait of the two men, two paralleled figures, shown side by side and in profile; one has his eyes closed, the other has his eyes open, was inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe’s photograph “Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, 1984”

I didn’t see this photograph as a symbol of race relations, but more as a neutral background subjected to interpretation. And from this "blank slate", with no built-in inherent meaning I assigned the significance or meaning I wished for.
I don’t see two men, I see one, I don’t see races, I see humans, I don’t see black and white, I see colours, I don’t see a history of separation, I see nonduality and the essence of nonduality is given by the experience of connection.

Acrylic paintings, grid of 9 
80m X 80 cm each panel