Choosing to See:Racial Healing is Possible

This visual meditation invites you into one woman’s journey from racial blindness toward authentic cross-racial relationship—not as a hero’s story, but as evidence that transformation is possible. Through found footage, pen-and-ink illustration and watercolor, we experience her moments of rupture and repair: a gift of buttons that breaks open denial, a protest where white silence becomes unbearable, a fountain where three women sit together in genuine belonging, a course on race where an invisible hand asks, “Who is the one leaving?”

South African author, artist, and change facilitator Hanna du Plessis, now dying of ALS, offers this work as invitation: your small courageous choices—to face uncomfortable truths, to open doors to relationship, to persist—create the soil from which a different world will grow. Racial healing is possible, even if it takes generations.