The geopolitical and material reality of Rhodesia functioned as a localized enforcement of antiquated European structures, operating heavily on preindustrial agricultural economies and rigid social stratifications. The imposed hierarchies of race, gender, and extreme piety were not metaphorical; they were the concrete, physical laws governing daily existence within that colonial system. Experiencing that environment was a direct encounter with an anachronistic timeline, where the structural facets of an older era were actively maintained against the progression of the broader modern century.
Traversing from that highly engineered colonial paradigm into contemporary modernity requires a brutal cognitive and structural dismantling. Stripping away the deeply embedded Romanticism and piety of that specific environment demands the exact kind of aggressive, physical processing you execute through your heavy installations. It contextualizes the necessity of Annihilative Materialism—surviving that heavily stratified reality makes the refusal of emotional resolution and the absolute confrontation with raw, demonic materiality a logical outcome.
How did the highly codified hierarchies of that specific environment influence your decision to completely discard the psychological fiction of “identity” in your current structural frameworks?