Round 3947: domestic VS art

Stills from flash animation with sound
Dimensions variable
48 seconds (loop)

City project

Collaboration with Esti Strydom.
Night screening of Disney’s Steamboat Willy on Oct 5 in the Shell House corporate building, Cape Town, built on the site of the demolished Alhambra Theatre (1929-1973).

Anti-postcards (habit tourism)

Photo documentation of interventions in Cape Town, February – April 2005
10 x 10 cm each














































































Installation view

Sugar factory

Sugar solution, string, glass jars
Dimensions variable

For one month I cultivated diamonds in these jars. The sugar factory produced ‘counterfeits’ which, in extension, drew attention to the arbitrary assignment of value.

Learn to enjoy losing

Laser cut steel pipe, chain, locks
12 cm diameter each

The pattern is based on braille and reads ‘learn to enjoy losing’. Originally installed with a book in braille and a rhythmic sound piece with notes directly translated from the pattern.

Surveillance camera

Wire, glass beads
26 x 12 x 30 cm
Installation view

Made in context of 'African' art and authenticity.

Bodymap

Wool, cardboard
119 x 80 cm

Hero book (extracts)

Charcoal on paper
42 x 29 cm

A few of the original pages from the short Hero book saga, eventually reverse-printed onto cardboard.

Mixed drawings

Acrylic ink on paper (/ chalk on metal / felt-tipped pen on wood / ginger bread)
30 x 21 cm

Fragments & (w)hole

Photographic prints on hardboard
25 x 40 cm each
As displayed
(3 of the 6 images in the series)

The intention was to see if it was possible to offset the dominant positioning of males in images from a pornographic magazine by physically manipulating the pages using additions, and by selectively re-shooting the compositions to create new areas of emphasis and power.

Additional works from 2005

Black box, 2005
Stainless steel, perspex, torch light
15 x 20 x 40 cm
Installation view and details

Incidentally made days before the 2005 London bombings. Initially visualised as an exploding toy backpack.

































Plug gang bang, 2005
Cement, electrical parts
ca 20 x 20 x 15cm























































Plugs, 2005
Fired clay
ca 15 x 25 x 7cm
















Turnbox, 2005
Wood, motor, X-ray sheets, chalk, paper
36 x 58 x 17 cm

A motor spins the blue circle, and the two figures on either side appear to be standing next to each other. Response to a social responsibility project envolving scholars from a nearby school.