Ubuntu
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This sculptural relief is made from cast paper fiber, hard pressed into a mold, then dried, sealed, painted, and mounted on a firm backing. Measures approximately 8"x10". The edges are left in a rough state.
Made with care, entirely by hand. Wired and ready to hang.
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Made with care, entirely by hand. Wired and ready to hang.
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"Ubuntu" is a African word from the Bantu language. It translates to mean sharing and human kindness, and refers to a philosophical belief of sharing as the natural universal bond connecting humanity.
According to African historian Dr. Michael Onyebuchi Eze, the core of ubuntu can best be summarized as follows:
“ 'A person is a person through other people' strikes an affirmation of one’s humanity through recognition of an ‘other’ in his or her uniqueness and difference. It is a demand for a creative intersubjective formation in which the ‘other’ becomes a mirror (but only a mirror) for my subjectivity. This idealism suggests to us that humanity is not embedded in my person solely as an individual; my humanity is co-substantively bestowed upon the other and me. Humanity is a quality we owe to each other. We create each other and need to sustain this otherness creation. And if we belong to each other, we participate in our creations: we are because you are, and since you are, definitely I am. The ‘I am’ is not a rigid subject, but a dynamic self-constitution dependent on this otherness creation of relation and distance”.
According to African historian Dr. Michael Onyebuchi Eze, the core of ubuntu can best be summarized as follows:
“ 'A person is a person through other people' strikes an affirmation of one’s humanity through recognition of an ‘other’ in his or her uniqueness and difference. It is a demand for a creative intersubjective formation in which the ‘other’ becomes a mirror (but only a mirror) for my subjectivity. This idealism suggests to us that humanity is not embedded in my person solely as an individual; my humanity is co-substantively bestowed upon the other and me. Humanity is a quality we owe to each other. We create each other and need to sustain this otherness creation. And if we belong to each other, we participate in our creations: we are because you are, and since you are, definitely I am. The ‘I am’ is not a rigid subject, but a dynamic self-constitution dependent on this otherness creation of relation and distance”.
- Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa, pp. 190–191