When silence speaks louder than words

Butcher Boys (1985/86) is a sculpture made by South African artist Jane Alexander of three life size, oil painted plaster figures with animal horn and bone details, seated on a bench.

The humanoid beasts with powdery skin, black eyes, broken horns are devoid of their outside senses – their ears are nothing more than deep gorges in their heads and their mouths are missing, appearing to be covered with thick roughened skin.

The artwork represents the brutal dehumanizing forces of Apartheid in South Africa.

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Chefchaouen or The Blue Pearl is a breathtaking mountain town in northeastern Morocco. The picturesque medina, set against the dramatic backdrop of the Rif Mountains, is filled with white-washed homes with distinctive, powder-blue accents. Every street is better taken care of and cleaner than any other city in Morocco.

The blue-rinsed houses and buildings mirror the cloudless Moroccan sky – but religious rather than stylistic reasons are behind the design choice that comes from the town’s former Jewish population. In Judaism, blue represents the sky as well as the heavens, reminding everyone to live a life full of spiritual awareness.

The name “Chefchaouen” simply refers to the shapes of the mountaintops that tower over the town, that look like the two horns (chaoua) of a goat. “Chef Chaouen” literally means, “look at the horns”.

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