Atang Tshikare - Sebatana
Atang Tshikare
South African 1980-
Sebatana
2019
numbered 4 of 5
wood
height: 25cm; width: 46cm; depth: 19cm
Notes
Kindly donated by the artist in collaboration with Everard Read Gallery.
Peo e Atang
The growl came again — louder this time. Peo’s heart pounded.
Through the crack in his hut wall, he saw it… feelers glistening, mouth dripping,
claws shredding the grass walls apart. “Grrraawww!” it roared.
He didn’t wait. He ran — into the thick night, clutching the strange object that had chosen him.
Breathless, he climbed a tree and held on till dawn, trembling…yet alive.
Something ancient had awakened.
The view here is that we are all Peo.
The beast (Sebatana) is our trial — the chaos sent to awaken the dormant power within.
When the darkness hunts you, it is not there to end you, but to initiate you.
You are not losing — you are being called to remember.
The climb is your transformation. The night is your teacher.
You are still chosen. You are still rising.
Atang Tshikare
South African 1980-
Sebatana
2019
numbered 4 of 5
wood
height: 25cm; width: 46cm; depth: 19cm
Notes
Kindly donated by the artist in collaboration with Everard Read Gallery.
Peo e Atang
The growl came again — louder this time. Peo’s heart pounded.
Through the crack in his hut wall, he saw it… feelers glistening, mouth dripping,
claws shredding the grass walls apart. “Grrraawww!” it roared.
He didn’t wait. He ran — into the thick night, clutching the strange object that had chosen him.
Breathless, he climbed a tree and held on till dawn, trembling…yet alive.
Something ancient had awakened.
The view here is that we are all Peo.
The beast (Sebatana) is our trial — the chaos sent to awaken the dormant power within.
When the darkness hunts you, it is not there to end you, but to initiate you.
You are not losing — you are being called to remember.
The climb is your transformation. The night is your teacher.
You are still chosen. You are still rising.
