It seems I am getting to a place where I can say that making is meaning. My reading took me to an article (Materiality & Process: The Physical Act and Properties of Materials as Central Meaning in Contemporary Art-Making Francis Ankyiah1 , Frederick Bamfo). Here, the idea is to rethink artistic meaning, going beyond a […]
I am thinking about how the materials I work with create a starting point for reflections on memory, community, and my relationship with place, and how this then continues to present in the next making. When working with or in nature—whether creating nest shapes, hollow forms, drawings, or weavings—I find myself continually meditating on the […]
I want to explore a hybrid and fragmented form of writing about making Walk the Line. My conceptual thinking about walking is based on the idea of it becoming a vessel or bag that holds disparate things together along the way. I like how these things are all like a nest/weaving/contaier, as they look as […]
The scroll and the steel I. The Vessel My artistic practice connects with a decommissioned railway line that runs parallel to a dirt road at the entrance of the wheat and sheep farm where I live in the Swartland. This landscape places me roughly ninety kilometres Northeast of Cape Town. I set out to document […]
I ordered mulberry paper, which I hope is 100% Kozo, from China—the very same fibre known as Kozo in Japan and Hanji in Korea. Here is something incredibly grounding about knowing that the very same plant fibre I will be rubbing and massaging with water and muscle power has kept ancient ecosystems and crafts thriving […]