Title: Cold Land, Cold Hearts

Artist: Kazvare Made It

Artwork Description: This work reimagines and illustrates an archival photograph of Mashona women (c. 1906), placing it in dialogue with a contemporary photograph of a South London estate. Through collage, it brings historical and present-day geographies into the same visual field. The archival image is reworked through illustration, becoming part of the present composition rather than a fixed historical document. Beads, London Underground seating patterns, and a fragment of theRhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission map form a network of visual references that connect colonial administration to everyday urban infrastructure. These elements bring different histories into contact, collapsing distance between colonial Rhodesia-Nyasaland and present-day London. One of the women speaks the phrase “Cold Land, Cold Hearts,”which reads England as both environment and affect, describing not only climate but a broader condition of emotional and social coldness experienced by Black people across time.The work suggests that colonial histories are not contained in the archive but continue to shape how place and belonging are experienced in the present. By reworking the archival image, itconsiders how these histories are not only inherited but re-formedthrough contemporary representation. The archive is not behind us,but embedded within the present landscape, shaping how place isfelt, inhabited, and read.

Medium: Printed as giclée prints on 100% cotton rag paper.

Size: A1