The Centre for the Less Good Idea is an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts based in Maboneng, Johannesburg

Healing will come for us too.

⁣The second billboard for December 2020 and January 2021 on the Braamfontein Shunting Yard, M1 Freeway facing traffic travelling North, Johannesburg, was occupied by the artwork from a powerful collaboration between artist Jessica Webster and poet Upile Chisala. Webster created a painting that is part of something that is yet to come,echoing the words of Chisala’s poem:

Healing will come for us too.

Jessica Webster is a conceptual painter whose work is labour-intensive, complex in range of theme and materiality, and installation based. Jessica was mentored by artist Penny Siopis during her PhD in Philosophy, this mentorship led to the development of a close analysis of painting as it regards the embodied "sexuality'' of the painted surface. Webster’s ideas address painting as re-articulations of psychosomatic events which reveals modern painting at its most robust: where it lays bare the aesthetic ideals of the enlightenment project, as traumatic.

Upile Chisala is a storyteller, sociologist and activist. Raised in Zomba, Upile’s hope is to tell stories from the margins and through her work help others and herself come to terms with pasts, celebrate presents and confidently dream beautiful futures. She writes affirming, empowering and encouraging pieces on joy, identity, spirituality, femininity, beauty, love and loss.