I pictured myself - always wearing the same yellow cardigan and clutching my daughter's hand as we strode boldly out of the picture - towards the future.
I drew non-stop for over a year - huge vibrant, 3 metre x 2 metre drawings that filled every wall of the house. I resumed the drawings almost as a kind of exorcism - to "˜draw myself out' of my current situation - and I suppose that is what happened.
Unhappy and isolated in Cape Town, I wanted to bring about big change in my life. I resumed the Hum of History drawings in 2008 at a critical moment in my life. Everything fed into it - my own experience, migration, fairytale, being black and female, work, love, the world at large, domestic life, politics, stories. It was quite a grand idea at the time I suppose - I wanted to create an epic, fluid, narrative series that would go on and on and on - a narrative of the world that would make more sense as it continued.
I meant Hum as in "˜kyo' or the sound or vibration that connects us all to everything in the universe.
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