Image of the week… The Journey home from school

22nd November 2024

The Journey home from school/ Boundaries of play ( WIP). I hid in the car for a moment to breathe. Within seconds the patter of little hands on the window chanting, the car rocked.

“Auntiiiii Aunnntiiiii”
I sigh, smile and clamber out dangling my Hassey and stroll towards the muralled bus stop entertaining several conversations simultaneously.

This bus stop becomes more beautiful each time I see it. Layered with cave like drawings; a vivid Auerbach archive of Manenberg. A space to play, gossip, hang, vent and leave your mark.

The young people huddle in tightly under its shell as the sun dips and that golden light slips in. One way all silhouettes, the other a sharp warm yellow taking aim at any face that enters.

I watched with my final frame as this young boy climbed its wall and rested his cheek softly on the cold concrete. I miss that bus stop.
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