Nesting
The art of living in two places at the same time and traveling between North and South, often led me to explore remote sleepover places.
Richmond, in the Karoo is a small, colourful town. Passing through the dirt roads to a beautiful and remote sheep farm, I often spent hours walking in the veld collecting found objects and mostly animal bones that fell prey to the wild and unpredictable elements of nature.
Travelling on the N1 through the Karoo. Oil on canvas 300 x 150mm
Oil on canvas. 300 x 150 mm
Construction of bone ball in dam from a distance.
Richmond, Karoo.
Pencil and stitched cotton on paper. 895 x 580 mm.
Pencil and dry pastels on paper. 1180 x 930 mm
Deserted Hanover farmhouse. Pencil on paper. 1100 x 920 mm.
Hanover graveyard farm. Pencil and dry pastels on paper. 1180 x 920 mm.
Pencil and dry pastel on paper. 580 x 420 mm.
A ghost house on a ghost road where the families once lived before. Let us entertain the dead and welcome them back. Digital photograph, 25 m red cloth.
Ghost farmhouse with decorated red cloth. Digital photograph, 25 m of red draped cloth.
A deserted farmhouse stoep decorated with chandeliers and an imagined history. Digital photograph.
An empty deserted dam with one tree seeping the last underground water. Digital photograph and 25m of red cloth wrapped around the tree.
Pencil on paper. 580 x 420 mm
Richmond farm.
Richmond farm.
Constructing a bone-nest as a metaphor for our existence and fragility around a wire constructed ball.
Bones and wire. 500 mm.
Bone-nest complete.