NEIL LOUW | Fine Artist

Beautiful worlds that flicker through glass tubes enchant the poor more than any other soul.

‘Back yard dwellers’ is a term for folk who raise families in mostly shanty houses in the back yards of those a little more fortunate than them. When I first heard the term it felt like a label for those who cannot escape these iron sheet cottages.

I am not romanticising poverty when I say “I see the beauty in dilapidation,” I am noticing the silver linings; the soft white curtains bundled up in the window, the bunny aerial on the shanty roof.

Medium: Oil on canvas  |  Size: 23cm length x 34cm

Weight: 1kg