This year I dedicated my work and my research to two concepts which I find to be profound in the discovery of myself and my identity within different contexts. These two concepts being the matriarchy and coloured identity. My search for these two ideas started off as separate – I began to look deeper into both individually, learn what I didn’t know and extend on what I did. Eventually I started to find links between the two as I as well learnt more in depth about myself as a coloured woman.
This video series is a three-part series – 1. Washing It Away, 2. The Cleansing 3.  The confrontation. Though this work in particular focuses on the ideas of coloured identity, much of the performance was highly influenced and effected by what I have learnt and come to discover about the matriarchy, femininity, womanhood and spirituality. The performance touches on issues of violence, politics of stereotypes, culture, history and identity and at the same time heavily emphasizing the act of washing these things away and cleansing yourself of these constructs and then reclaiming. What does it mean to be a coloured person in South Africa and what does it mean to be a woman?
This process was not merely a piece of art – each action, each performance was done with intention – the intention to reclaim. Over time the piece became overwhelming, as I was constantly confronting my identity in a social context, and institutional context and a constructed context. At the same time, I am also confronting the environment of that context – how I respond to it and how it responds to me. It became personal, but personal is political.
While on this journey in search of answers as to why and how we find ourselves in the spaces we do today, I had the realization that I had to trace it back. I stepped into an ancestral space.
In this series, I had found a way to confront the box of which we have been put in and then to step out of that box as an act of reclaiming my own identity being: spiritual, political, social and cultural. 
I set out to challenge the notions of coloured identity and he who claims to define it as well as challenging coloured people themselves to step out of that box.
I am a coloured woman,
So much more
And nothing less.