An AI-created image. The above image of a small-scale installation is very close to how the work was done in a pine forest. The core of the work is an ecological collaboration showing smudges, faint lines, and deep charcoal burns, which serve as a literal indexical record of the Swartland’s atmospheric energy between late 2025 and January […]
The wonderful thing that happened is that walking and making art asked of me not only to research the new encounters, but also to become a bit of a botanist, and this I really love! Below is a list I started to keep, but I need support from the INature group to qualify and verify […]
Yesterday, along the rail walk, I realised that I have come to an intersection where the iron meets the paw, and the shrubs along the way are not empty; they have become a library. The railway has been reframed in my mind – it is a path of animals, not just trains. I know that […]
The horizontal “drift” of the 6-or-so km walk from the Riebeek West station to the gate of Langvlei Farm, my home, will not be presented as a depiction of a landscape painting or drawing. I hope to share the physical evidence of a collision between a human, a plant, and a railroad. In contemporary art—especially […]
( a report from the Transition Zone: Walking as a Collective Witness, posted on Substack) I am new to bringing my art-making process closer to my walking practice. Still, the most motivating part is learning to let materials and the environment guide the outcome in unexpected and meaningful ways.In a community of walkers, every path […]
I saw this quote this morning: ‘East, West, South or North, no matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey within. If you travel within, you will traverse the whole wide world and beyond. ‘ Shams Tabrizi Walking as an act of witness has become central to my life here, […]
Influenced by the Conceptual and Land Art movements, my practice is rooted in the act of walking. With Silent Protesters, walking became part of a site-specific inquiry. During April and May 2026, I walked an unused railroad line cutting through the Riebeek Valley. This path traverses the transition zone between the fertile valley floor and […]
The blog post I want to share is about my realisation that the shadow is not the enemy of the mapping process; it is its soul. The thing I love about this walking project is my struggle to create a marriage of Industrial and Colonial history (old station, the Krupp stamp, the rail, the 1948 […]
Walking around our immediate spaces Feeling where we are – sensing and asking will you be walking barefoot? Heel feeling – sensing a loudness to putting my foot down – the textures of carpet and cement floor. A shift happened in being present The fact that I am abled – one cannot sense walking if […]
An aerial view of the rail – my son brought his drone to the walk, and suddenly the 10 or so meters of my scroll found its context. The work on the scroll will also be called Walk the Line and will be a separate work from this visual videographed work. From the air, the […]