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Thandazani Nofingxana - SITHI ABA 1

My range for 2017 is strictly inspired by the idea of ‘being’. Why is your culture different from mine? Why do we dress like we do? Do we eat the same food? Are your parents from the same country? How does it feel to be a Foreigner? Where is your local?

These are some of the questions that I have tried to answer. I have explored them throughout my designs incorporating them into the design elements and the overall aesthetics of my range both in interior and clothing.

Inspired by the diverse ethnic African people. I specifically focused on the cultures and ‘mixed’ identities of two ladies, one of whom is Xhosa and Bugandan and the other who is Xhosa and Nigerian. As a starting point, I identified the basket work as the common cultural element between the cultures and used this as an inspirational threshold to develop my designs. The two ladies are referenced on all my designs within the range.

All the female garments are named after Tayira and all the male garments are named after Feridah.

More photos will be up on tumblr and Instagram,jeez i need a website🤫

Photography: Melissa Cant Designer :Thandazani Nofingxana Make up :Thandazani Nofingxana Creative Direction : Thandazani Nofingxana

Models : Lwethu Tenge,Joy(@Razor_Rain),Lavhe.

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Thandazani Nofingxana - 2016

#fashion #youth #yellow #dope #red bottom

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I SHOULD HAVE - CRUCIAL CARTEL

Produced by Dan Haynes,

Mixed and Mastered by Dj X

Written by Crucial Cartel ( Thandazani Nofingxana )

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WE ARE FOUND OBJECTS - THANDAZANI NOFINGXANA 

Colours Of You South Africa hosted Creative Connect 2017,an apparent preparation to the annual creative festival that usually takes place in November,however this year they wanted to bring creatives together before the big event so when November comes we’ve probably connected and made contacts as creatives prior(which is pretty cool) . Last year i showcased 6 of my A3 textile prints (RichIsBlackandViceVersa’s first exhibition),Yesterday was a continuation of the same theme just focusing on a slightly different topic but using the same prints from last year.

These prints are photographic images turned into motifs then repeat design,for this year i took an even more experimental route,which include photography,printed out photostats of prints,found objects and some origami,eggs,cups,threads,wool anything i could find around my room.

Hence this is is called We Are Found Objects,i literally just looked around and used what i had,i also used the aesthetic of typology the idea /a classification according to general type. On this series i used an image of myself taken by Marc El Herve and made it the focal point of all my 9 designs with the different textile print backdrops,An image that one could say resembles the famous sculpture The Thinker by by Auguste Rodin,weirdly i noticed this on the day of the event because i saw one of the people’s board with ‘The Thinker’ and it just clicked like heeeeey man :) i guess Its the human frequencies,connecting lol and it feels good to find yourself kind of reliving something but in a totally different space .

All 9 prints are named FRAGILE (with caps on), Tittles fore me a re quite important as they give you an idea of what the artist was trying to convey,for me Fragile came as both an element of these design,everything they contain and just the overall aesthetics. Why with capital letter? Fragile would suggest I’m easily broken but if you look at the relationship between FRAGILE and the prints,an idea of steadiness and rigidness can be found even though my posture and dressing says i am vulnerable but I’m standing almost as the sculpture the thinker. The triangle of my head makes it even harder for one to look at my emotion,prints combine creates the sense of loneliness but with that  yellow Organite Pyramid on my head you cant really tell but the posture  is one thing one can sort of analysis.

so yeah :) but its totally up to you how you interpret this.

#textiledesign #youth #southafrica #nmmu #colour #popculture #art #pyramids #original

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THANDAZANI NOFINGXANA - WE ARE FOUND OBJECTS

This is a burden I’ve carried for almost 10 years of my life.

The biggest, longest and realest insecurity I’ve ever had.

Kids in my junior school would ask me what the hell’s up with my legs when they showed, I used hate them after that question, I used to hate them so much, don’t they know that they might be breaking my heart? I’d die inside…every single time. I had such unlovable legs. Sports days were the worst days.

As I got older, shorts started to disappear from my cupboard, I don’t even remember what I did with them.

I tried every remedy my young mind could think of, these tattoos wouldn’t go away no matter I tried.

3 years ago, an old friend of mine told me I’m a leopard because of these spots, he didn’t know how I feel, so I threw back every insult I could think of… But I am one. I decided I am one.

For the passed 3 days I’ve been jogging in sweatpants, today i put these shorts on and without hesitation I ran out the gate…leaving my comfort zone and yard for the first time ever in about 8 years like this… Naked, but not vulnerable…

#YOUTH dreams insecurity future photgraphy #youth #photgraphy #portelizabeth #southafrica #beach #creativearts

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Thandazani Nofingxana’( Crucial Cartel) Textile Prints.

#langblrstudyblrtraveltravel photographymuseumssfmomagermandeutschgerman langblrsan francisco #langblr studyblr travel travel photography museums sfmomagermandeutschgerman langblrsan francisco

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Crucial Cartel - I Should Have (Prod.by Dan Haynes)

Written By Thandazani Nofingxana

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#SoundCloud #music #Amazon & Crucial #Pop/Rap

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Terminus,Port Elizabeth,South Africa.

#portelizabeth #southafrica #edgar allan poe #emotions

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Come wearing Yellow in any event i will tap you on your shoulder and be like hello You Me Camera Snap Cheese Bye.

#yellowdress

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I am currently in Port Elizabeth for my studies and i must say the city is quite inspiring especially from a photographer’s perspective ,i constantly look outside my window just for sunsets and sunrises,The process of waking up early and staying up till late to check if there's anything interesting on the clouds or the beach is fucking awesome. Typical artist neh?  but heey man :) ...

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I’M THINKING ABOUT HORSES

“Maybe this universe wasn't an achievement at all Maybe our lives, our wars, our fuckups, our diseases Our love, our humanity, our passion, our pennies, our Holocaust Are all just a rehearsal before the show A sketch before the mural, a stretch before the jump” - Mansionz

#mansionz #blackbear #mike posner

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THANDAZANI NOFINGXANA

RICHISBLACK&viceversa/RIBVV provides a nostalgic mood in rich colour, solid backgrounds with tiny detailed photographic motifs. which as a collective of prints  might remind one of the Bandana template/designs  at a distance, because of their energetic  and abstract nature,With pop cultural influence Thandazani Nofingxana transforms personal experience along with those of others on the subject of Insecurities and feelings into textile his print designs or at least as the starting point. RIBVV is an exploration of personal experience with regards to my dark skin, for quite some time I have been insecure about my dark complexion, obviously being pressured by societal perception on what beauty is and perfection is, which is usually not in the favor of the darker tones(we can have a history lesson on this one) . Pretty understandable neh? cool,see  we live in a world where  'white' is glorified more than anything else in the world especially in the South Africa,well i am a South African i'll speak for South Africans,yeah sho. shit wait, have you noticed how being black(no not just race but complection) is a thing now? No like seriously,people are actually starting to fuck with themselves now and that's awesome,look at how trendy having dreadlocks is at the moment.I just really hope it stays like this for the longest time hey,we need this kind of self discovery because this is us,sithi aba! people are starting to tell black stories,people are starting to embrace their cultures and everything they stand for,by people i mean people my age. Anyway feel like i was caught in cultural dynamics here, one thing is appreciated over other and 2 years later its vice versa.Have you looked how for the longest of time being light skinned has been the ish and now how all of a sudden black is beautiful typa vibes(which has always been the case by the way). Its all a cultural thing but tough luck for the light skinned guy and the very dark skinned fellow,they will always be caught up in the conversation. Which i feel like shouldn't even exist because we are all Human,for now never mind the fact that we are all black/African. So what I’m trying to say is my insecurity with my dark skin has been created by the community that I grew up in, there was a time (still happening) I would be confused with a Nigerian/Ghanaian and obviously there would jokes around that I’d be called iKwerekwere(which is perfectly fine,because me i i'm not xenophobic or anything) but the connotations that surround that are not of progress,we are in a world where you're forced to hate yourself because of preconceived ideas of what you are suppose to look like and if you don't look like that that you're an outlier,we might just call you names as well. What I’m trying to say is, I kind of felt othered by my own people growing up simply because I have a darker complexion,mind you i'm not  talking about white people here telling me i'm black,its the black community!!.Even though these were just jokes(i mean at 10 years you pretty much take things lightly) when people calling you these kind of names,even though it does some damage to your well being without you even realising that,next thing your are bleaching yourself and mind you by 20 you most probably see nothing wrong with wearing a lot of make to make you lighter because its been built in you since you were 10 years,that black is ugly. An example this other girl told me her biggest insecurity are her butt and breast,mind you she has the finest butt every girl right now could ask for but she  told me   she feels like people do not necessarily they just like her butt and that's it and the fact that she's 'yellow bone'. She also had an an interesting point on how people would tell her she's pretty and sometimes overhear someone saying if  maybe if she wasn't light skinned she would have been ugly. See? whats happening? people constantly trying to make you what they perceive as beauty and as she was talking i totally related to each and every thing she was saying and i was like connecting dots and made so much sense why she's insecure. Because,one day your are appreciated and the following day they don't like the same thing they told you yesterday you are fleeking about. Confusing. Understanding that not everyone is  facing the same type of insecurities i was facing, I went around my residence and also on  social media and randomly asked people about their insecurities, but I had to be open to them and tell them about mine first so they could ease up a little bit and open up,insecurities are not easy things one would discuss with a stranger even though some people didn't mind telling me. People sent me photos,some i took with my digital camera and the process was interesting because i started to know people even much better,i'm still in touch with people that i met during the process,some of them  being people around my res that i never talked to so it was quite a very edgy way of starting a friendship with those types,but everything went well and yeah. All the tittles of these prints are in IsiXhosa which is my home language, chose to write in IsiXhosa because when said in IsiXhosa they contain a bit of a truthful wittiness into them regarding a particular insecurity, which is one the aspects I found interesting people being able to laugh at their own insecurity no matter how uncomfortable it is and I just generally love isiXhosa as  a language. there's just a lot to decypher in a lot of simple phrases in IsiXhosa which is pretty dope. The idea behind these  textile prints design was to take these body parts people felt insecure about and create something beautiful of of them,when looking at a distance they would appear as flowers and when looking closely one will eventually see that they aren't flowers,its the very same reaction when your are insecure about something people who aren't close enough to you might probably not know about it but the ones that are/close to you know about insecurity.

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THANDAZANI NOFINGXANA

Tayira Is Half Nigerian and Half Xhosa,Faridah Is half Ugandan and half Xhosa.

#xhosa nigerian ethnic southafrica lifestyle rural life abantu nguni #xhosa #nigerianwedding #nguni #abantu #ethnic #southafrica #lifestyle #rural #life

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iLifeIDifferent

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MADIBAS INTERVIEW RADIO - THANDAZANI NOFINGXANA

#nmmu

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  UBUNINI BOBUNINI,

@Artec,Port Elizabeth,South Africa - Thandazani Nofingxana

My work wasn’t put up on the walls  because I was late, :(  (not very proud about that) but you know what things got more interesting,well... at least for me 😂😂😂. I’m pretty sure artists/designers have come across the conversation about galleries and museums on how they display works, yes? No?... okay anyway, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, for as long as I can remember there’s has been conversations about museums and galleries on how disengaging the way artworks are displayed on the walls. Basically, people are not able to touch and feel the artworks on display and that’s obviously a bit disconnecting.   Sooo,i told myself, you know what these people will see my work and they did.... Before I did my performance  I talked about my prints and how i developed them  and passed the A3’s prints around and yeey! I was happy CHAP ,people started feeling, touching, engaging, talking about the prints and mission was complete ....I Want This braz?😂,PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT THINGS LATE,NOT A GOOD LOOK  AT ALL.Well Done Luzuko Nomnganga(organizer)

#textildesign