Shaping Up: Art drawings, Essays, Poetry and Interpretations

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Shaping Up: Art drawings, Essays, Poetry and Interpretations is written by Rinos Mwanaka and published by African Books Collective. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1779272618 (ISBN 10) and 9781779272614 (ISBN 13).

Shaping Up is more personal and intimate than the author's previous works. The poems and images reflect a period while he was living outside of Zimbabwe, in South Africa. The immigrant experience gives the work a more personal, closed, abstracted feel driven by loneliness of the exilitic condition. Living in the element, uninhibited and careless can help deal with confounding, controversial issues more easily, this theme can be dissected from the drawings to do with sex, sexuality and gender issues. The line breaks, whirls, thins out, sometimes is bold, sometimes is barely there, thus the drawings straddle the tenuousness of time and life.