Mawande draws links between politics and perception, exploring our common understanding of art. Through his recent works materialist worldviews, dogmatic ideologies, and archetypes are sieved and converted into material for his paintings. The subjects of his works derive from Xhosa, questions around ontology, popular imagery as well as his socio-political and esoteric knowledge. By transposing his approach to life into his canvases, Mawande Ka Zenzile seeks to question society and to open the possibility for radical ways of thinking about the hegemonies of perception.