Connected | Shafina Jaffer Art 2

Connected Series

Graphite & charcoal on canvas

My spirit lovingly dances through life filled with joy.

Life oscillates and cycles just as all things. For our existence, much of its success is seen through mindfulness and an elegant dance. 7 chakras, a third eye and the supreme universal being, whose hands balance the cosmos, balance our hearts and our creeds

Charcoal & Graphite on Canvas; 110cm by 70cm

African Kitenge border

Born to break free from the bonds that hold me back.

Women are weighed down in life with, sometimes their beauty becomes their burden, sometimes their responsibilities and sometimes society. .Make the intension to soar towards the Divine, keeping your focus on love, beauty, freedom, elegance & gratitude. Be brave & break free from the bonds that hold you back, but not so that the connection is severed. For she is stronger that you think

Charcoal & Graphite on Canvas; 110cm by 70cm

African Kitenge border

Struggling to reach my higher self.

The work shows the themes of the human balance between the material world or immaterial world. As we hold up our abilities of knowledge, we hold down our naturalness.

Charcoal & Graphite on Canvas; 90cm by 70cm

African Kitenge border

Creation traverses through time and dimension.

A dance of the cosmos, the human anatomy and the natural world of trees displays itself. The work calls one to think of the way they navigate their place in a human universe.

Charcoal & Graphite on Canvas; 2m x 1.45m

African Kitenge border

Connected through the heart chakra and moving in cycles.

If you love someone or something you will not harm it as your heart is connected. That’s the circle of life propagated by the hand that helps, receives & blesses.

Charcoal & Graphite on Canvas; 2.5m X 1.2m

African Kitenge border