Paintings and Sculpture
For the last few years I have been working with an idea that while paintings can relay a subject matter through an image, they are also bodies that have an influence on the bodies around them. In this sense I…
A note about painting
The painting process could be described as thinking and sensing through the handling of materials in contexts. The painting process, the materials used, the compositions that form, and the combinations of paintings I make, offer chances to think about and sense aspects…
A day to day account of a participatory arts-based workshop
This blog entry offers a facilitator’s glance into the day to day activities that comprise a participatory arts-based workshop conducted in partnership with a grassroots activist organisation. I start the entry with a narrative account of the day to day…
Catalogue: Movement and its limitation within an environment
Movement and its limitation within an environment is a visual-spatial presentation which responds to the vibrancy of partaking in an assemblage, and to the ambivalence of living in a borderland. The movement of the city, and broader urban-rural relationships, viewed as an assemblage,…
Understanding stories as relational: the human and the non-human
People's anecdotes, greetings, excuses, lies, jokes, invitations and questions certainly did captivate much of my attention, but so did the stories and narratives visible in gestures, clothing, jewellery and cars, and also buildings, shops, stalls, restaurants and streets. Together, these…
Research interests and aims in the Jeppe Research Project
The Jeppe Research Project was a project in which the Wits School of Arts (WSOA) participated alongside the WITS School of Architecture and the WITS School of Law within the Jeppe Street Ethiopian and Eritrean business sector. The intention of…