Author: mamello m

• A portrait of this woman on fire

  I painted this self portrait in 2024 and it has only hung up prominently in my house in 2025. I call it an ode to Sara

  

• Live, Love, Laugh: The decline of cringe and authenticity on social media

  Not everything has to be spectacular— for it to have been life, love and laughter. It can just be.

  

• winter in hout bay

  of loneliness

  

• lumos

  lumen amen lumen amen light amen light, light, light this fierce prayer. light give me light. it is hunger the deepest belly-ache, screeching begging for the satisfaction of oblique darkness,…

  

• the scream

  lumen

  

• no one would hear me scream

  on dying a south african woman

  

• we could be in revolt

  On the “you can’t blame the government” sentiment…

  

• teetering

  of reluctant lingering in the place of hollow bodies

  

• on anarchy in the disaster state: reflections on Bakunin’s fanatic love of liberty

  a stream of consciousness on the state amidst the coronavirus pandemic

  

• mama don’t call me dirty

  of ptsd