It’s just over a week since I dismantled my performance installation in Pretoria , and 4 weeks on from the actual performance of the work informed by my Master’s dissertation. Both were immense tasks of endurance, physically and mentally. The rising of the frosty new stubble on my head marks the passing of this time, [...]
INVITE WALKABOUT
As I mentioned in a previous post (Stressss) I am preparing for an upcoming group exhibition called G1K1. I thought I would give you a preview of one of my works called Pronutro. It is an image of the pro patria medal I received whilst serving in the South African Defence Force. The requirements to qualify for it [...]
"I don’t know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better." These are the words of Emma Watson. Yes, the Harry Potter girl. Guess where? At the United Nations Headquarters in New [...]
So stress, what is it? Basically, as I understand it, it is the anxiety that arises within as a result of an unresolved problem or problems. This anxiety will not disappear until that problem has been resolved, removed or disappears. In other words, it ceases to be, by any means necessary. I grew up in [...]
I was conscripted into the South African Defence Force when I had barely turned 18. I served 2 years following which I completed a number of one month camps every year, for a period of,I think it was, 10 years. I was drafted into the South African Intelligence Corp. I know! Army intelligence: a contradiction of [...]
