Monday, August 1, 2022

ISOLATION (Idiot) - A Khahliso Matela Video Poem


 Isolation.

As humanity we are existing in some unprecedented time when we all to confine ourselves.

Endeavor to a degree of isolation of SELF that is self-inflicted and to face the walls. 

The walls that keep us safe at times,  but the walls that seem to be closing in on us.


My name is Khahliso Matela. (Flat)

I am a South African based Video Artist

What do we project on the walls within?


And in our isolation, we will find some connection.


And that is the nature of my art)

And that is the nature of my art the joy and connectivity of our human-ness

That which makes the same walls that keep the human IN

(And as we project on these pasts, and the presents and possible futures?

Together may we project a beauty better than that we have created.)


Isolation.

And as social beings, we all know, that we exist to validate each others’ existence.

But now ISOLATION

Is a mode of self-rediscovery

A space for introspection.


My projections


Are those worlds that project on the darkness in the walls.

In an eternal strife to find connectivity of our species, we project unto these minds a hope.

That your isolation, will mirror mine, 

(so that we might )

In order to launch a better struggle against ISOLATION that is ours.

And in my ISOLATION, though proving that we are one…

BUT WE ARE NOT.


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