As the title suggests, this work by Gerald Williams memorializes the 1976 police massacre of hundreds of South African children by police in what has come to be known as the Soweto uprising. The image Williams is portraying pays homage to a press photo snapped of Antoinette Sithole running beside Mbuyisa Makhubo who is carrying the body of Hector Pieterson who has just been murdered by police. In Williams’s image, the trio is portrayed as sanctified, glowing and angelic, and Hector is now walking.

The style Williams uses in this portrait is indicative of his aesthetic evolution towards a meticulous, pointillist approach, building complex images from small dots of color rather than focusing on concrete forms and hardedge compositions. It is part of a body of work Williams embarked upon while living and working in Africa, and which he continues to develop today.