Thus reads the label of the Marmite bottle that seems to sit on the frame of the painting, as if on a shelf between the viewer and what is behind it. Translated from Afrikaans: Eye Ointment - to be able to see - Revelation 3:18. The verse in question reads: "...anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see."
South Africans, both black and white, need to look at each other with compassion.
