Photos

Well, they are dated now - seems like ages since I was home. Anyway, I will continue to add them. I had to remove the links before and now I'm just putting them in again.

Sycamore Trails

Oudshoorn and Knysna

Owl House

I hope to add more soon! Cheers

I am working on preparing images of the sand sculpture I made in near Plettenburg bay, its slow progress because my computer is playing up, but I keep plodding on. Hopefully i will be able to buy a new machine next month, so it should go better then. Here is a sneak preview of what I'm working on....
Yesterday we went to some artists studios as part of a Open house studio event in the Richmond area. It was a lovely day and has given me the necessary inspiration i was hoping for. I want to mount some of my work, print some of my photographs and try and show my work somehow. Also, as we were taking a break, sitting on the bank of the river, I noticed some interesting, beautiful junk floating down the river. I have take quite a number of short videos in a similar way, keeping the camera as still as possible and focusing on something particular (in this case as in many - moving water) I am working on ideas for putting it all together, but for now, just this...

Life Drawing

Creative process

I managed to finish my assignments in time, and now i am trying to pull my creative process into exactly that... a process, rather than scattered bits that are extremely unmanageable. I have these ideas buzzing around but to many and too split up to work out what to do and where to start. I was trying to figure out a way, i wrote down all the themes i have been working with lately (the last 2 years - since being here). Then I started writing down themes and media explored in the past, since i started at unisa in 1999. All of this to try and find a common strain and decide on something, one theme to work with. Still a bit blank about it though, i don't know what i actually want to say or make. The thing is i have heaps of photos and video footage that i have taken over the past 2 years, that i want to use, but because i was not following one specific intention it does not really fit together. Chatting to Al about, i realise that half of the problem is that it is all over the place, and not categorized at all. So that could be a starting point, just to go through it all and make a catalogue. I can give it a go.

I have been toying with the idea of an animation based on a story by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, from Women who run with the Wolves called the wolf's eyelash... it kind of seemed to fit my situation of coming to London, (in the story a girl goes into the woods) Maybe i will get into this a bit more later, but getting to my image for the day, its a wood scene.

That's all for tonight... i am going to a life drawing class tomorrow, so hopefully that will help get me flowing again, i am really looking forward to it.

land act revisited

It been beautiful in London, sun shining and clear skies. I have been working away at art history assignments, which is going quite well, and I have managed to join two excellent reference libraries, which has helped lots. I'm hankering after time to work on my art, but its not long to go because my assignments are soon due and then I can work on art guilt free. I am really actually enjoying the research and writing, which is a first (at least in a long time). One of them is about informal art training in South Africa in the 1950's and 60's. Reading about Sophiatown, and the forced removals got me thinking about the animation that I did for the Journey to freedom project for UNISA. I think that I did not think about the seriousness of the forced removals and how tragic they really were, well, maybe I did but being my first animation, I think I was more concerned about getting the embroidered images moving and less about the impact it had. My animation is kind of humorous. Anyway, I am glad that I've realised this now, and have been thinking about how I could have done it differently which is a step in the right direction, I suppose.