Day three, for my third piece day and third piece of art I chose to do an international report. The article is about how the levels of rape and sexual assault towards women has increased a significant amount in South Africa and how the rates of femicide in South Africa is five times higher than the worlds average. Light was she on the reports as a woman called “Karabo Mokoena’s” was found dead in a shallow grave, her partner had burned her body until recognition with acid. Her partner wasn’t charged. Mokoena death is the most recent case of femicide and is what made many South African women speak up about abuse. The article goes on about how many women and young girls are being killed and abused of the street. More women are speaking out about the daily struggles they face and how the government is trying to reinforce more legal action to make women and children feel more safe. Looking at this article I really wanted my work to symbolise danger but also femininity. I wanted my work to have a soft delicate aesthetic focusing on light bring colour which as associated with women like pink. I want the strong feminine feel to have a hash contrast against the danger side. I wanted my work to be quite shocking as I think the article itself Is quite shocking, and unbelievable that women in South Africa must face such hated in their everyday lives. I wanted my work to also symbolise the youth, the young girls who have had their childhoods ruined. I use old cigarette buds in my work to symbolise the abuse and hatred. Cigarettes have a bad signa to them, they have a hold on you and slowing start taking full control. They are bad for you physically damaging your body and mind set. This links to the article as most of the women who have been assaulted were abused by their partners, the people they thought loved them. The men become possessive and often get physical when the women try to leave them. The cigarettes often stand for fire, they represent how many women’s life is over after suck a horrible event. They are burned out and thrown away. The fire side also links to the death of Mokoena as was set a light during her tragic death. I wanted to add a sense of lose youth in my work. I wanted to show how certain events in life make you grow up without living your life. I used a period pad as a symbol of a girl’s life. Becoming a woman is significant time in a girl’s life and when that precious time is forcefully taking from you, you go straight from being a young girl to a broken woman. I used the wrapping of the period pad as a background as I really liked the pink flowery pattern on it. I think the flowers almost represent the delicacy of a women and how fragile but also strong we are. I wanted to add a sense of strength to my work, I experimented using the wrapping and making interlocking chain links. I wanted to symbolise how on the outside you may look delicate like a flower however on the inside you are strong. You may never forgive what happened to you, but you can accept it and try and be strong. Th chain links also symbolise that you are stronger with others by your side. time- 21:17 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39941143

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