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Pointillism in oils and ink on paper.<\/p>\n

Size A4 \u2013 Framed<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a chapter between losing who you thought you were<\/div>\n
and becoming who you\u2019re meant to be.<\/div>\n
A dark, quiet stretch of road where the world doesn\u2019t clap for you\u2026<\/div>\n
and the only sound you hear is your own spirit breaking open.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
This piece lives in that space.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
After The King Who Never Was, I had to face the truth inside myself:<\/div>\n
you cannot wear a crown built on wounds you refuse to heal<\/div>\n
You cannot lead from a version of yourself you\u2019ve already outgrown<\/div>\n
And sometimes the things you prayed for come with weight<\/div>\n
you weren\u2019t prepared to carry<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The hands covering the face aren\u2019t shame<\/div>\n
they\u2019re pressure, exhaustion, the moment a man tries to hold himself together<\/div>\n
while life is pulling him apart<\/div>\n
The one eye still open is the part of me that refused to die<\/div>\n
The wings aren\u2019t triumph they\u2019re responsibility<\/div>\n
The crown isn\u2019t glory it\u2019s a burden that teaches you who you really are<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
This is the in-between chapter<\/div>\n
The collapse before the awakening<\/div>\n
The storm before Indlela Yobudoda (the road to manhood)<\/div>\n
The breaking that had to happen before I could hear my ancestors calling me home<\/div>\n
Before Umkhetha Akhakhali (the initiate doesn’t cry) could rise inside me<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It\u2019s easy to celebrate the rebirth<\/div>\n
But this?<\/div>\n
This is the part of the story nobody sees<\/div>\n
The part that hurts<\/div>\n
The part that shapes you<\/div>\n
The part that forces you to choose whether you stay broken\u2026<\/div>\n
or stand back up as someone truer than before<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Sometimes the crown is heavy<\/div>\n
because you\u2019re finally becoming the man meant to carry it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pointillism in oils and ink on paper. Size A4 \u2013 Framed There\u2019s a chapter between losing who you thought you were and becoming who you\u2019re meant to be. A dark, quiet stretch of road where the world doesn\u2019t clap for you\u2026 and the only sound you hear is your own spirit breaking open. This piece […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[703,70,43,46,30,47,31,105,654,42],"product_tag":[208,58,126],"class_list":{"0":"post-14654","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-affordable-paintings-under-r2000","7":"product_cat-african","8":"product_cat-artists","9":"product_cat-contemporary","10":"product_cat-fine-art","11":"product_cat-gallery","12":"product_cat-mediums","13":"product_cat-mixed-media","14":"product_cat-sakez","15":"product_cat-styles","16":"product_tag-african","17":"product_tag-contemporary","18":"product_tag-mixed-media","20":"first","21":"instock","22":"taxable","23":"shipping-taxable","24":"purchasable","25":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/14654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=14654"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=14654"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=14654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}