Palesa Masemola (20) Photo by: Instagram (2020) Art is the closest you get to immortality -Damian Hirst While earth was gracing us with the art of spring which was accompanied by warm temperatures, blooming flowers and even greener trees twenty years ago on this same date . The universe was simultaneously gifting the world with a young avid drawer/painter Palesa Bontle Masemola. She was born and raised in Mamelodi a township bordered by the Magaliesburg mountain northeast of Pretoria. The most suitable adjectives to describe her work would be simple, sublime and vibrant but one that creeps out of her work and buries all three is aggressively authentic She believes that if it wasn’t from both her mother and older brother’s drawing skills she wouldn’t be holding a paint brush or sharpening a pencil. Her older brother and mother’s complicated relationship with drawing birthed a passion that can never be washed away by any tide. Even though she couldn’t quite place it, drawing has alw
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