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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Pfunzo Sidogi
Pfunzo Sidogi is a lecturer in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa. He holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art (cum laude) from TUT and is a doctoral candidate at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His PhD research project examines the artistic representations of twentieth century urbanisation in South Africa by Black artists and is supported by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), in collaboration with the South African Humanities Deans Association. He has published on themes related to art education, South African art, and comics. He is chair of the ‘de arte’ journal editorial committee, and also serves as a council member of the ‘Pretoria Arts Association’ and the ‘South African Visual Arts Historians’ (SAVAH).
Tshwane University of Technology