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First solo exhibition

Not sure if it is because I’m getting older, but the weather is getting to me of late. Then again, with climate change the weather is anyway proving to be challenging and getting worse by the year. At our place the winters are getting wetter, not because of more rain (I don’t think, or is…
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Mask

As part of my Master of Design studies (through UCOL New Zealand) I wanted to explore the concept of masking, veiling, disguise – concealing and revealing (something that is used extensively during the rites of passage in primitive cultures). Masks (whether in the form of costume, make-up, paint or tattoos) are tools of transcendence, and…
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‘Dolosse’

Dolos (or Dolus) is the name of the Greek spirit of trickery. Tricksters are shape-shifters, ambiguous, promiscuous, the clever fool. They are often defined by their duality. Tricksters, as part of the liminal process, are all around and help to shape the world. In modern times, think Bart Simpson, Frank Abagnale, Bugs Bunny, Tyler Durden,…
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Quilt update

It has been a few months since my last post. (Haha – that sounded much like a confession.) Lots have happened and life just got away on me a little. We started painting the house, yet to be finished, weather and other commitments permitting. I also wrote a proposal for a solo exhibition at a…
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Hoerdraad

This is a bit of a crass word in my home language, which loosely translates to ‘whore thread’. It doesn’t actually exist as a word and I doubt a lot of people would know the meaning of it, but in my family we know exactly what it means – I call it a ‘family heirloom’…