The Butcher Boys

Made it to Cape Town safe and tired but not too tired to hit the ground running.  First stop was the South African National Gallery where I fell in love with the "The Butcher Boys" by Jane Alexander.  At first glance, I thought for sure that it was a living installation piece.  Aren't the poses incredibly humanistic for such strange looking creatures? They also reminded me of the blind monster from Pan's Labyrinth.  


And yes, those brutes are indeed political art;  Alexander created them as a visual representation of the dehumanizing force of apartheid.