Paul Stopforth: Elegy This is a major part of the series of twenty works Stopforth created in 1980, where he is involved with the terrible fates of Biko and other people subjected to the horrors of police interrogation. All the drawings are done in a mixture of graphite and acrylic. Stopforth says of this work: It is "an attempt to place this image in the context of Western art history - a South African 'saint', martyr and hero." Two other works from the series consisting of two small graphite drawings of damaged hands and feet, called Steve Biko and We Do It, were chosen for the Valparaiso Biennial International Exhibition in Chile. However, government intervention caused the drawings to be withdrawn because the government did not want to promote or finance such political works overseas.