Nyengana

F"rom the collection "A Rose by Any Name" "Since the introduction of contraceptives (birth control). We are having less children than before. Also, we have them much later in life - thus their value increases and we can stay flexible. Too often they are allowed to be our supreme rulers, our sovereigns. In the past, there was no rearranging life for children. They had to contribute and join the larger family project. Today it is the parents who must conform. There's seems to be a much higher divorce rate, more single parenting, by choice and situation. The idea of the child is evolving, not sure into what. The mother is the one who stays with the child. Not always but almost all the time. I can't help wonder what the mother of the future child is. These 4 works are an imagined figure. I wonder what my mother would be like, starting a family in Contemporary Africa." - Mncedi Madolo