YOUNG BASADZI - in the bedroom

my bedroom is the temporary sanctuary spatial unit where like Frida Kahlo, i can paint/write potraits of myself entirely.

Futon bed, two beautifully growing green plants in respective wooden baskets, collection of cds, main wooden bookshelf, dressing table used as an additional bookshelf, wooden tv stand used again as bookshelf and wooden computer/radio with scent of masala incesense breezing through. I just read the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; The quite violence of dreams by K. Sello Duiker; the Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Pooe et al; with my old time favorites A question of power by Bessie Head; Unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera; Les miserables by Victor Hugo. listening to Eva Cassidy "Songbird"; Bheki Mseleku "Celebration"; Massive Attack (Mezzanine) and attending local hip-hop events on sundays around by area.

sent by shameeyaa neo waMolefe, co-author of 'I Write'.

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'i love my bedroom, it's a site for unlimited expression, unthreatened freedom.'

on my bed side is a cd player, i've been playing "the best of seal" lately. i'm reading coco fusco " the bodies that were not ours" and james baldwin's "the fire next time", seal sings "walk on by". in between i take glimpses of the garden outside, thanks to the recent rains it's looking alive again!

sent by Gabi Ngcobo, Assistant Curator - Iziko South African National Gallery

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my bedside table this morning:

Peach-shaded lamp; Hardcover Notepad; Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, The Good Women of China, Hidden Voices by XINRAN; a year-old unopened Durex box; BIG Pen; Empty Simba chips packet...

sent by Rose Mokhosi

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Another perfect day in paradise!

On my bedside table; there is a reading lamp, an ashtray used for the junk that comes from my pockets – fuses, coins, thumb tack and paper clips. a clock/radio and two books:
Shooting the Monkey – a business philosophy by Colin Turner ; Shirley, Goodness and Mercy – a childhood memoir by Chris van Wyk, author and poet, on growing up in a ‘coloured’ township outside Johannesburg. There are no durex packets open or closed.

sent by friend to mosadzi_Rose

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I am interested in finding out what is in your bedroom, what you are reading and enjoying right now –please send an email at youngbasadzi@webmail.co.za

(last updated in April)