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Ecce- Homo, an encounter with early machismo is a body of work that was inspired early last year when I unexpectedly encountered a group of enormous rusting steel sculptures, depicting early Stone Age hunters and their prey, high in the cactus covered High Sierras of central Baja California, Mexico.

Based on rock paintings by the isolated and mysterious hunter gatherers of that spiny inhospitable region, those sculptures, by a seemingly unknown artist and standing ten feet tall completely bewitched me with their virile splendor. I somehow realized anew how powerful it must be to be a “Man” wild and free, hunting with your mates and with them being the sole providers for the clan, family or herd.

Migrants is a subject I have explored in so many ways over the years. Nowadays once free moving people have become herds of landless and pathetic migrants. What kept me in Africa as a painter for so many years was mostly this once vast land with its free roaming animals. Now there is really no room left to roam free. Hence the question, Migrants forever? Yony Wai-te