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The meaning in the work by prominent South African artist, Jane Alexander lies in our daily violent reality.
Alexander tries to capture a mixture of emotions. She does this by her extensive use of paradoxes. A common theme is the symbolic relationship between oppressor and victim. She seeks to identify the manner in which violence, aggression, cruelty and suffering are conveyed through the human figure. She does this by showing the violent, aggressive and powerful characteristics in the same body that reveals helplessness.
She states that those who are secure and unthreatened do not need to bully, but when an entire society is insecure, all its members become both aggressors and victims.
These figures that could be the mutant victims of some disaster are created by Alexander building her figures up in plaster on a variety of frameworks and adding found elements like bone or horn.