This artwork explores a particular aspect in a life of twins, within the context of the Xhosa cultural and traditional belief systems, where twins have to observe a specific ritual in which they have to throw silver coins in the sea to appease their ancestors before they can bathe or swim.

Before colonisation was brought to the South African shores, the concept of money was foreign among the traditional Xhosa peoples. Xhosa people bartered crops, animals, land, and some forms of beads. The introduction of money totally changed traditional people’s systems of production, distribution, and exchange as these became principally characterized by money as a primary means of exchange of which Africans did not have. Thus, money cost most traditional societies all over the world, their land, animal and agricultural stock but it also forced them to labour for their colonisers.

In relation to the South African heated calls for decolonisation, people have been stating that we should rid ourselves of Eurocentric or Colonial value systems. In my work the Xhosa requirement for twins to throw money into the sea could be read as an active participation to decolonisation where one of the most colonial valuables is rendered useless and is thrown back to where the coloniser came from (the sea).
Concrete is the main medium used in this artwork, portraying the durability and sustainability of this long living belief. 

The coins show age, and wear and tear through dents and chips, much the same as the coins in our pockets. They would be presented to the sea in exchange for the safety and protection of twins.