Hair Tales

In this image I examine the beauty of black hair and how it’s gone under significant changes in order to arrive to this point where we celebrate it in all its glory. The afro combs are also significant in how the heritage of our hair has been shaped. I also incorporate coins as means of unpicking an in-visible system which creates social structures of inequities. I create a backdrop which incorporates the Zimbabwean bird motif together with old Zimbabwean coins with the late queen Elizabeth’s face on them, as a way of commenting on misfortunes of life which resulted in a subversion of power dynamics. I also implore the idea of hair as a currency which has shaped our contemporary realities.