Shaping Up

<p><em>Shaping Up</em> 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.</p>