Artist: Ana Pereira De Vlieg
Country: South Africa
WASA Member: Yes
Title: Community in Unity
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 38cm x 27cm (14.5 x 10.6 inches)
Details:
Community in Unity
In a time marked by displacement, uncertainty, heartbreak and growing division, this painting reflects the quiet strength of hope found in community. It was inspired by groups of people from diverse churches and backgrounds who gather at dawn at the entrance of our harbour to pray for the destiny, healing and future of our city. In these moments, strangers become neighbours as they listen, encourage, comfort and care for one another.
Painted in transparent watercolour, the figures dissolve softly into one another, allowing individual identities to become secondary to a shared humanity. Light emerges not from a single source but through the relationships between people, reminding us that compassion has no borders and belonging is created wherever love is lived.
As fear and xenophobia challenge our sense of home, this work asks a simple question: Are we not all travellers, each seeking a place of peace, purpose and belonging? It is an invitation to see beyond labels of nationality or status and to recognise the light that connects us all.
Community in Unity celebrates hope as an act of everyday courage and reminds us that even in uncertain times, the brightest light is often found in people standing together.