March 2013

This is one of the pieces that is being exhibited at Fried as part of their Autumn Show. Title You Say Potato - Part I.

Well got back from the trip down to Cape Town OK. I have been back now for over a week and I don't think that  I have recovered yet. Part of the problem is that there hasn't been a moment to just sit down and relax. So the trip to Cape Town? Well there was a stop over in Beafort West with no sleep, a pleasant drive, an irritating hanging system, strange beds, my first visit to a spur in I don't know how long, plenty of fish and chips, a quick glance up to the mountain, 2 minutes on the beach, a stop over in Richmond which was a pleasant surprise, roadworks and a forgotten jar of coffee. Would I do it again? Yes, as long as I could spend a bit more time on the beach.

Oh and the face is looking ok.

February 2013

Boerbol attack update: well the healing is going alright. The nerves on the lip still feel jangly and it is a bit difficult to form the mouth properly to form some words, but otherwise everything is good.

On the creative side I have been doing a little bit of experimenting. I  made myself one of these whcih I used to take the above picture. I need to play around a bit with the process but it looks like it might produce some really nice results.

Exhibition wise there are a few irons in the fire. Fried is going to take some of my work to this years KKNK, I am hoping to produce something for Gordon Frouds Tom Waits show which is also going to shown at this years KKNK. There is a photography show that looks like it is going to happen at Intoto come the end of April. This is going to be curated by Megan from Intoto and Michael Meyersfeld. Yes there is plenty to come but the bucks have to be earn't and time is as ever fast running out. Oh and there is athe little matter of a Group show of Gauteng artists whcih I am helping to run down to Cape Town Canonball Run style in a couple of weeks time. I am busy growing the tach in order to reprise the role of J J McClure.

January 2013

Awwwwww isn't he sweet. Hell no. I had one of these bastards mistake my face for it's dinner. So yes as a puppy it may be sweet but once it starts to reach maturity, then it is completely another matter. Was standing there with it's owner, idly passing the time and then chomp. The only thing that I can think of was that the dog was jealous of my curls. Happy New Year Indeed.

December 2012

 14th: Never mind all the who har about the Myan calendar says, you know that the world is coming to an end when a: the membrames of both the yolks of the eggs that you are frying break meaning that you lose that lovely perfect round bit of sunshine in the middle of the snowy white fields b: you forget to check that your flaxh card is in your camera and only notice ten minutes later after the moment has passed. Yes the end of the world is upon us.

Before that happens though I shall be making one of these for myself........

It's a camera obscura. This one I made for Hardus.

November 2012

30th: Drum Roll please........Intoto just sold another pic - Wabenza - my entry to Absa L'atelier from..............2009. Yes i know that I am getting older. Yes I know that I should be getting used to getting to the idea of selling the odd piece here and there. I tell you what though, it is still cool to know that someone out there is spending their ill begotten gains on things that I do just because I want to see what will happen if I ........ How awsome is that?

Trying to find a link to it but nothing. Hope I documented it. In the mean time here is something else to occupy your time with, if you look closely you will just about see that the level is indeed level the picture is just off kilter.

September 2012

29th:  Oh Lisa Lisa.... Sad Lisa Lisa. I was given a poster for an Art Exhibition dated from I don't know when. I decided to photograph it and here is the result.

Together We Can: 15th September; we went up to Jeppes Town in Joburg to put up my Shack. A chance meeting Julie Lovelace inspired the decision to put it up. It had been sitting in my backyard for the last couple of years, and well the time had come to do something about it. So early on a rainy morning under the Joe Slovo flyover up it went. The weather was miserable, communications got mixed up, street names were misread, nerves got frayed but it went.

Here is Julies piece next to the front door of the shack.

Together We Can: 21st September; Six days and six hours later was the first time that I was able to go and see how the shack was doing. The news was not good. The only evidence of the shack having ever been was the footprint of Julies porcelain piece, and that too was gone.

9th: The end is Nigh! The shame of it, how can things come to this? Surely things can't get worse than
this - not to be selected for the Thami Mnyele Fine Art Awards!!! I have just about recovered from the shock, luckily there were paramedics on hand to administer CPR other wise who knows how things would have ended. So anyway once I have finished convalescing I shall be stomping off after Gordon and Jenna to find out why they both suffered from a mental seizure on the same day. To top off the whole farce their was a green sticker on my work which denoted selection for everyone else but me!!! Scandal I say....a bloody scandal. You can see it for yourself, its there.

6th: So how did the Opening of New Signatures go? All things considered pretty well. Arrived in time to miss the opening speeches but not to miss the winners being announced. Fantastic. And the winners? I think the best thing about this years show was the fact that the winner was.......older.....not a senior citizen but someone in their late forties. Which is great as it means that I have another ten years in which to carry on trying to win. That's great....

Work for the shows I am taking part in is going alright. I am assuming the printers have been able to print my prints for the Radiant Exposure exhibition which is happening at Cameo Framers. The image below is one of the pics that  am going to have on show. My work for Me 2 which is happening at Fried is going alright. I am almost finished with my Kaleidoscopes for the Erotica show which is also happening at Cameo Framers.

August 2012

Optimism tempered by realism and an empty pocket leads to unoccupied plinths and half made moulds. Oh well... at least I got most of the bits that I was going to use for my entry to PPC. Next year...next year. As for the Thami Mnyeli Open? well entered something, its just not what I wanted to enter, thus the empty plinth.

So whats coming up? In no particular order...ME II opening on the 15th at Fried; Photographic Exhibition at the Trent Gallery  opening on the 8th September and then an Erotica show opening sometime in September, also at the Trent Gallery. Not sure when though.

Ho hum thus ends the entry for a rather glum month...mind you there is the opening for Sasol on the 29th so you never know...