![Dense digital collage resembling an election poster, combining a DA campaign poster reading ‘Geordin works for all’, an image of Geordin Hill-Lewis juxtaposed with a demon, paintings of enslaved people, photographs of the Mexico border wall and wall spikes, Rondebosch Golf Club, the former Tafelberg Remedial School site in Sea Point proposed for affordable housing, a cardboard protest artwork reading ‘Building a wall won’t resolve our problems’, and a painting of Cape Town.](/images/artworks/Works for "all".webp)
Around me · 2026
Works for “all”
Apartheid decided who could live where, who could occupy valuable land, and who belonged on the edges of the city. Some live in ‘heaven’; others are cast down to ‘hell’, systematically prevented from moving towards something better.
Above the wall is the affluent city, ‘heaven’, more like a modern European city than an African one, some say.
Below the wall, bodies are compressed together among images of townships and poverty. The composition draws on slave ships: bodies reduced to a mass, confined and allocated only enough space to exist. An existence based on servitude which feels, at times, too real today.
Between the two is a wall, interwoven with Trump’s border wall. Are we so different? Both walls are trying to keep the “other” out. Crime can become a convenient excuse for exclusion, and a cover for racism.
We inherited a city built around separation.
Why are we still building walls?