For Our Time Is The Passing Of A Shadow

Notes

A sustained meditation on the sea as a physical and psychological landscape: crossing and passing. The past year has seen Visagie's preoccupations find a wider resonance in global narratives of migrancy. Where his earlier work proceeds from his biography outwards to consider water as a site and symbol in queer literature, his thematic considerations have since extended to include histories of ocean crossings. Such crossings have been, and continue to be, undertaken by those fleeing war, hardship, and persecution, those who dream of safe haven and hope for a better life and by those, too, who crossed not by choice but in chains, borne across the water by the violent tides of slavery and empire.