In June of 1982 year Zylla displayed a series of large pencil drawings he had been working on at the Community Arts Project in Cape Town for the past eight months. The images were of grossly fat white males at the barbeque, bombs and grenades in their cooking pot, smug businessmen in the boardroom and military generals. He invited members of the community to add to his finished works in any way they wished. More than 200 people came to express their feelings about Apartheid and oppression visually with paint and brushes on the artworks. The afternoon was very meaningful to those who participated because it broke the boundaries between artist and community and art lost its image as an elitist activity and became a form of free expression of the people.
