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Drawing and photography are central to my practice. Both make pressing - if sometimes fictitious - claims to the capture of lost moments.




12/01/2011

Karoo Stopover: the food chain

Beautiful, isolated spot, fantastic hospitality and food, and one of the other guests was someone I met over twenty years ago and have not seen since. When I saw the newly born calves, I did have to try and forget the sign I'd seen pointing to the farm's abattoir.







08/01/2011

Looking down





Looking down





Cultural relativism: courtesy





This woman's blindness was achieved courtesy of her husband and a knobkierrie. For those ignorant of this tool, it is a club 'used mainly in Southern and Eastern Africa', dixit Wikipedia. Typically they have a large knob at one end 'and can be used for throwing at animals in hunting or for clubbing an enemy's head.' For anyone concerned about the objectification of people before the camera lens, she was a willing and paid accomplice to this photograph, which was embedded in a long conversation in the gardens outside of Cape Town's National Gallery. 

A touch of colour