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Kamva (Xhosa for Future)

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Acrylic

50 x 50 cm (20 x 20 inches)

The Story behind Kamva (Xhosa for Future)

People buy and just keep on buying, a lot of it being plastic, problem is, they don’t care where that waste ends up, reality being, that a massive amount of that plastic ends up in our oceans, killing a great number of marine life every year. Over a 100 000 from entanglement alone.
Kamva is a young man from the coast of South Africa, where the national fish is found, the Galjoen (Dichistius capensis), sadly it is listed on the Red because of overfishing and plastic pollution. On his left hand he is holding the problem and the greatest threat that is facing marine habitats, the Galjoen entangled in a plastic bottle while its mouth is penetrated by a plastic pipe, how sad. And this is just an example of the everyday atrocities that occur under water because of human carelessness and cruelty. On his right, he is showing the most simple and rightful way of doing this, a used plastic full of plastic waste, to say that plastic rubbish belongs with rubbish, not with marine life. Do better.

Dbongz

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About the Artist

Dbongz

Dbongz is a South African, Street artist. He has been actively painting for about a decade.
Apart from working with global brands on continental projects and painting at different international festivals in his home country. He has been consistent in taking the art form to less privileged townships and villages in the outskirts with the confidence to unearth hidden and misplaced talent. He tackles topics such as poverty, marine conservation, historic archiving, human injustices, just to mentions few.
For his efforts, he has previously won awards for best Graffiti and for Community Development.
He continues to learn and to paint, with the hope to educate, enlighten and inspire demographics from all walks of life.

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Priority Ocean Challenge

Pollution + Plastics

Pollution, especially plastic pollution, contaminates marine habitats, bioaccumulates in marine species, and contributes to ecological imbalances with unknown and far-reaching consequences.

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