Convoluted Roots (Dreadlocked)

Convoluted Roots (Dreadlocked)

"It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies."

• Matshona Dhliwayo.

Through my work I'm adulating & celebrating the aesthetics of natural African hair, thus including the manner it's often variously styled and carried by both females & males, especially how it defies the archaic western draconian standards of beauty that have been policing people of Africa and of African descendance on how they should style and carry their own natural hair since time immemorial.

Original Document Size: 1080*1350 mm.