September 2016

2nd September: A pinch and a punch for a whole month missed. A whole month of intentions and plans but not much moving forward. At least with Spring in the air the itch to be pro active is starting to be intolerable. First things first, and a first for me. I have decided to self publish my colouring book. Unfortunately as it is not a real book, as in a novel or some such other, I don't qualify for an ISBN no. Bustards. I had high aspirations. But anyway, got myself the next best thing, a proper, registered, it is so legit that they give you a certificate to tell you that it is a legit, barcode. So yip I am now the proud owner of barcode.

September 2015

Inside the Guard Hut
Photograph thanks to Rupert de Beer

Well all the dust has settled. The prize giving evening of this years Sasol New Signatures has been and gone. What did I think? It was ok. Have to admit that I don't want to grumble too much as it would just feel like sour grapes. I thought my concept was strong and that I stood a good chance of being nominated for one of the prizes. Having said that I did wonder why so many video pieces won prizes, but then again I am just prejudiced. Oh well, best leave it there before I get my rage on.

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.

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.

June 2012

12th: Things are really starting to get busy and I am wondering where I am going to find the time. Been asked to be in a group show at Fried Contemporary this September. Then there is another group show at Cameo Framers. There is also the PPC Sculpture awards that I want to enter as well a Sasol New Signatures - oh wow just checked the entry date - only got three weeks to sort my entry out! Deadline is the 3rd/4th July. Mmmm - yes I thought that I had a bit longer than that. Trying not to panic trying not to panic trying not to panic trying not to panic trying not to panic.....

In the mean time here is a snap shot of my photos (the less blury ones) that were part of the Minatures exhibition at Art Lovers 1932. They sold which was nice.

May 2012

9th May: Sometimes you get involved in something and find yourself what am I doing here? Well in my case it was why have you submitted this? This is not the right place. This was the case for me yesterday. I had been asked by 'Art with a Heart' to donate some work for a charity event. I was happy to do so and without thinking about who the potential audience may be I dropped some prints off. It was only when I went to help out did I find out that what I had submitted might not have been appropriate for the event (later proved by the fact none of the images had sold). Yes yes I hear you saying but how is that possible? At R500 a pop they would have been a steal but but but.... I guess next time I will find out what works for them and see if I can dig out somethig that may sell. But then sometimes you really don't know.

April 2012

23rd: This is a pic I took of the Voortrekker Monument last year, I was going to say November but it turns out it was April last year. Wow. Anyway Adele an Interior designer has bought it from me. Which was nice. It got me thinking though. You make something that is viewed as magical. You then sell it which is a real bonus and in it's own way is just as magical, and then you end up using the money for something completely mundane such as paying the lights and water bill or the rent. Gordon Froud though has a great way of ensuring the magic continues. With the sales he makes he tries to buy another piece of work. How fantastic is that.

12th: These are the results of a process that only be described as genius. How did I achieve this: First I dropped all my test strips on the floor. I made sure that they fell into a liquid that I wasn't too certain about. I picked them up, shrugged my shoulders and thens stuffed them up my jumper and walked outside. I stood in the sun for a couple of minutes and then processed them. Developed, washed them, felt pleased with the results, put the strips back into the developer, switched on the light before walking out the door before returning after 20 minutes..........Amazing the resuls that can be achieved.

I am glad though I didn't make the same processing mistake with the pic that I took with Chantall. Have posted a pick of Chantall in front of her muse for the day, Cheugnette, a steam train which is run and looked after by FOTR (Friends of the Rail).

January 2012

16th: Here is a little something that I did on the weekend. It involved laying underneath Chantal while I roasted in the sun. It is titled 'If Pigs Could....' Nope, for all my efforts you cannot see me but check out the pigs.

12th: Phew - Is it hot again? Yes - if temperatures stay this hot I reckon that I am going to reverse millions of years of evolution and as I slowly turn in to primordial soup. Yip I know I should just stop the whining.

So what am I doing for this years Artists Associations annual members show? Well I have taken some of the duds from my shots from Chantal and hung them from a mini black board which has some musings of a mythical beasty.

4th: Well I have taken a few shots with......yes I have to give her a name...hmmmmm think I will name her Chantal. No reason other than it was the first name that popped into my head. So anyway took my first shot with Chantal and I have to admit that it didn't go well. I was able to use her slideable shutter to stagger the exposure. Half way through the sequence though it started to bucket it down. So I had to move her into the garage to continue. The first image suggested that the exposures were going to have to be in the region of 20 or so minutes. The results from the next few shots revealed that I would have to take out all the lenses and resanding them to make them that much bigger. So anyway here is the first test shot.

November 2011

24th: Wow its almost been a month since I started work n my latest camera. I am still just about finished. All thats left to do is the final coat of varnish and then fitting the lenses. The pic below shows camera with the back open. At the moment the biggest problem I am facing is trying to get hold of a safe light. If I was in London - no problem - just phone the supplier and I would have one within a week. I can get hold of a light bulb but they are just way too expensive for what they are. So the search goes on.

Good news from the feline show. I sold two prints of the Voortrekker Monument piece. Yip thats great but as usual after all the deductions and what not, what ends up in the pocket is just enough to cover materials for the next project.

10th: I'm not sure how long it is before I am going to melt and turn into a puddle so I thought that I had better write this message before I do. Catpals exhibition, Saturday 5:30pm at Trent Gallery @ Cameo Framers, Waterkloof, South Africa. Proceeds of the exhibition will be used for the feeding, sterilisation and veterinary costs of a feral sanctuary in Pretoria.

September 2011

28th: So anyway got a comment the other day from the mysterious BlackArks - they have a blogger profile but with no info other than they have been online since September 2011 - hmmmm - it made me think - well not much actually - that has been the problem over the last while it has just been work work work work work I am an automaton and I just work work work work work I get up out of bed and I go straight to work work work work work and I only stop work work work work work when it is time for bed work work work work work it is just work work work work monday to sunday work work work work work the life of an artist work work work work work. Yip I know life is not supposed to be easy but this is just taking the piss.

Below is the flyer from the Assembledge fringe show (my name is in the far right corner). All in all I would say it was a pretty cool event. Anyway I am just going to go back to work work work work work.......

15th: Some times I seriously wonder about the validity of calling myself an artist. With the amount of time I get to spend on my practice it hardly seems like a hobby. Sure I have ideas that I want to execute but looking at my work commitments for the next month or two I am going barely going to be having the time to sit on arse to take a quick five minute breather let alone do something productive. The worst thing about this all is that the money that I am bringing in doesn't even cover the bills. Yip I guess things feel pretty hopeless.

On the bright side I have been selected to take part in a show that is being run by Assembledge. The title of the show is titled 'The Art of Assembledge'. It is part of the Johannesburg fringe which is running concurrently with the Johannesburg Art Fair. The show runs from the 21st till the 25th September.

The image below is the piece that I am exhibiting. It is titled 'The Boxer' and is a self portrait which I took with Helga. I stood her up one way to expose half the photograph and then turned her over to take the other half.

4th:  So after getting the call on thursday to come and collect my rejected piece for this years Tahmi Mnyeli Open I went out to get it today. After wandering around the space to see what had been selected I went to go and take my piece of it's easel...'what are you doing?'...'I'm collecting my entry'...'you got your receipt?'...'No'...'You can't take that one it has been selected'...'Ok its just that I got a phone call telling me to come and pick it up'...'someone has been making phone calls to the wrong people, all the ones with a green sticker have been selected'..'oh ok'.. and so after the initial WTF? to laughing about the fact that I hadn't got in to the final I finally ended up having to leave my work as it had actually been selected...oh well.

3rd: Well went to the opening of Sasol New Signatures. As an event it was pretty cool. Good food accomponied with the usual scramble etc etc. The work was ok, saw a couple of pieces that I liked, but to be honest on the whole I found the show to be a little underwhelming. And the catalogue? While it is great to have a record, it would have been nice to see a truer representation of ones work.

I don't know whether I should be admiting to this but my work for the Thami Mnyeli Open got rejected. My Voortrekker piece. Yip....WTF!?!?! In the words of the great Mutley 'Shagafraghashaga' or something to that effect. Yes it is the ultimate humiliation. So yes now I am going to have to go through the humbling experience of picking my work up whilst trying not to think 'how the hell did that get in?' as I walk past some piece of rubbish. Anyway,this brings to mind my experience of walking round the Tate Modern and then the National Gallery in London. With the work in the National Gallery you do not need to be told how good it is. To be considered great it needs no justification, nor do they require you to like them. With the work in the Tate it is different. With some of the works you need the confirmation, to be told that they are great pieces of art, and of course with personal taste coming in to it, it is easy to dismiss one piecs of work as being a joke. The same can be said of some of the works that are selected for ABSA, Sasol, Thami Mnyeli etc etc. Sometimes the justification required seems to vastly outweigh the quality of the work. At times it is all to easy to pick holes in some of the selections. If you are not selected this is no reason to get upset as it is just the way the it is. Best to just shrug your shoulders and say - oh well.

So what else, there is the group on at Fried which I am a part of and then the Altered Pieces group show has moved to Pandora.

August 2011

24th : Just had a peek at the Sasol New Signatures website. Finally this years entries are up and can be seen. Looking at my own entry I have to admit that it doesn't look great. At best I could only describe it as a black murky mess without any artistic merit at all. I am sure that there are plenty of artists out there thinking 'I can't believe it - how the hell did that get in?'. As you can see below it does not look good.

While I have been here in the UK I have work going up at Fried as part of their Aperture exhibition. That runs from the 27th August to the 1st October. I have also had a piece entered into this years Thami Mnyele open. I decided to enter something a lot less low key than my effort from last year. Who knows I might win something...ha ha ha....yes. Anyway thanks to all involved for making it all happen.

Update form 2025 : My entry for Sasol's New Signatures art competition was stolen sometime late 2015. Not sure when or how but it just dissapeared.

July 2011

19th: Three is the Magic Number. At least it seems that way. I think that the selectors at Sasol have decided that I may only succesfully submit a piece of art every three years. Since 2005 the sequence is as follows; yes no no yes no no yes. So for the next couple of years I shan't bother. In 2014 I will try again and of course get in. The pattern is so obvious.

The great thing though is that I didn't have to face the ire of the Nandi who seems to be able to make anyone who steps out of line quake in their boots.

More good news website is back online www.kritikalmass.com So yes today three is really the magic no.

18th: Well things are finally starting to settle on the home front, although is still a shed load to do, plus got a trip to the UK coming up. So what of my Sasol entry, well I don't actually know. Yes I got my entry there on time, I have to add with all the right paper work, but I just haven't got round to finding out if my entry got in or not. My excuse, well non really. I did try to phone them today but no one answered. I just hope my entry got in otherwise I am sure that I will find my self dealing with a mighterly peeved Nandi when I do finally get to talk to her.

Noticed the other day that my website was no longer online. Bloody bastard service providers took it offline for non payment of bill. So anyway, after reminding myself to remain completely and utterly calm during the whole process, I decided to pay the bills online. Despite all the old tricks of refusing to recognise my name/email address/password or giving me the option of paying over the intenet were thrown at me I managed to get there in the end. The most amazing fact is thatI got there without getting to the psycho smashing the keyboard and shouting out wankers stage. Fantastic - only problem is the link is not working - wankers.

11th: Things have been really topsy turvy the last few weeks. Had to move house, which ordinaryly is a mission but this time round the problems just seemed to multiply exponentially. A move that should have only taken a couple of weeks has evlved into a two week affair. At least the worst of it is over but it has mean that I had completely lost touch with the real world. The result of this has meant that I have got my dates mixed up. I though the deadline for Sasol was the 14th but no it is actually tomorrow. Yes so on Sunday there was an 'Oh fuck' moment - a call to the framers which garnered the sort of response which was polite but had echos of a weary school master, with his cane gently swaying behind his back, looking down at one of his many miscreants whilst they babbled some poor excuse for their failure to have done their homework. Thank you Staurt I look forward to seeing the work framed tomorrow. So to cap off a thourougly unprepared week here is one that I succesfully submitted in 2005.

June 2011

19th: This is going to be my entry to this years Sasol New Signatures. I worked like a demon to get it finished this weekend. It has everything that you could ever need, windows, a door, a bed, a chair and a mat amongst other things. Its all very spacious and comfy. For those considering building their own homes it only takes ten minutes or so to assemble the whole thing. I have titled this piece 'Together We Can'

The title comes from this years ANC by election byline 'Together we can build better communities' It just struck me how far from the truth that this statement seems to be. In South Africa you have such a large proportion of the population living in shacks that are no better built than the one I have just made. For me the question who is the 'we'. At times this 'we' seems more like a royal 'we' in that our leaders are completely detached from the realities of day to day survival that the citizens of this country are facing. Sure now and then they may may visit a township as part of a photocall to show that they care and are listening. In return loyalty is expected and received and you have to wonder why? How much do these people actually consider the costs of the lifestyles they live. Are they able to weigh up the benefits that may come about if they reduced their costs to the populus at large and invested this money back into their local community. Rather than buy a Gucci suit instead buy a woolworths one and then put the money saved into helping someone build a home for themselves. A democracy is only a democracy when it serves the people and not when the system is abused to serve the interests of a select few.


18th: Well here is my tea bag in the sky shot from the other night. I have to admit that I was feeling really lazy, pointed the camera at the sky, set the focal length to infinity and just pressed the button. As you can see the result is a non descript orange haze in the middle of a lot of black. Yes I do charge people money for taking pictures for them.

Anyway, handed in my work for the Leonard Cohen exhibition. I wasn't to happy with the final piece. The print came out great (thanks Tammy), but the sticking down turned into a farse. The result being that an empty can of spray paint was launched across the garden where it remains for the moment. The spray glue went no where, as in what was in the can was barely enough to stick down two sections. So I ended up using double sided tape, which was ok but in some parts the image has not stuck down perfectly so a little rippling can be seen. All in all a little tardy, but if you are interested I will be happy to create a whole new piece that will be way better, neater, smarter, nicer, cleaner etc etc.

8th: Here is something that I started on a year ago. It is a series of images of the boundries that exist outside of properties. I became interested in this imaginary line that extends beyond the fence, and of how some people claim it by tarting it up and others just leave it to its own devices.  The connection with the Voortrekker Monument comes with the fact that these are all tracts of land that line Monument Avenue, a road, that if it continued on its way would eventually come to the monument. So anyway to join the dots; on the one hand we have this huge lump that is a memorial to a peoples desire to create a nation for themselves. Then on the other you have this manifestation of a personal desire to define a homeland for yourself being repeated continuously along a road.

So anyway I have the choice of black or white to go with. What do you think? Personally I did like the white version, but that was last night and now I am leaning to the black one.

May 2011

10th: Finally got going with taking some test shots with Trinny. Exposure times are looking to be more or less the same for her as with my previous cameras. Images though are looking like they will be much smaller than I had anticipated. The one below has a diametre of about 30mm.

Had some good news from Tam today with regards to the Leonard Coehen altar piece project. She recorded Hallelujah for me today. Going to go and pick it up on Thursday on the way to the Intoto opening. If the live performance I heard her give was anything to go, this recording should be amazing. Thanks Tam

19th: Work is slowly progressing for the Lenoard Coehen altar piece. To be honest though I think that Trinny might be a bit of a dud. Admitedly its early days and she could do with some tweeking. Right now the photos that I am taking with her are lacking the wow factor of the photos that Helga produces. Some of the detailing is nice, but nice is never good enough. They need something else.

I picked up Tams recording of Hallelujah last week and it sounds awesome.

There was an opening at Intoto last week. An exhibition of portraits. I had two works on show. One was hung below a Diane Victor piece which was cool. My other piece The Fight - part A was reserved. The potential buyers just want to see if it works in their home. Lets hope so.

24th: Progress report; I didn't like the photos Trinny was producing for the Leonard Cohen altar piece project, so I have decided to, with the aid of photoshop, cut and paste the images into something that I want. Its not finished yet, I have a very old slow computer that I am forcing to work its arse off to get this to work, but I should be ready on time.

News from Intoto is not good. The option on The Fight - part A wasn't taken. Bastard's, don't they understand that their thousands of rands could have fed a kind of poor, not really starving but shit they could really do with the money artist living in the suburbs of Pretoria. On the upside there is buyer for another piece, They are just proving to be a little ellusive at the moment. You like it? just pay the cash and be done with it.

One last not for the day, apparently I am going to be getting a mention in House and Leisure (South Africa) as part of a story covering Intoto.

 31st: The last week has been a bit of a pain in the arse. Boh of my dark room safe lights died. My new one because I bumped the poxy lamp and then the other because it was old I guess. Had to finish unloading, loading, unloading Helga in the dark; and then of course there were the photographs to process. It looks like I managed to fumble my way round succesfully as the pics came out ok. I also avoided head butting Helga which I did last week. She wasn't happy about this and I was fuming as not five minutes earlier I had managed to violently connect my forehead with a roll of paper. At the time of the second incident I was busy reminding myself to be careful.

The image above is a detail shot of a set up I did of some Jacob Zuma posters. The whole photograph looks like a series of police mug shots of the president. Although this was not by design I suppose some would say that this result was quite apt. So anyway I now have a rather expensive non funtioning light bulb that I just can't face throwing away as it was so bloody expensive. I guess they cost about 25 times the price of a regular one.

April 2011

2nd: Well despite all glitches and stuff ups work on Trinny (the three panel camera) is going really well. Am onto the finishing stage of the/her body. This involves a lot of sanding and patience. When that is done I can get on to fitting the hinges that will hold the sections together. After that I will be making and fitting the holes which means that she will be ready to go in about a week or two. Hopefully no longer than that. The image below shows her closed but with the back panels of the two side sections open.

 7th: Well I have finished off sanding and varnishing Trinny. Busy with the lenses while trying to work out a system for keeping all the panels and wot nots secure and in place. I am trying to make the lenses in batches. Making them one by one seems to take forever. It does mean that you get a lot of duds but if you are careful there shouldn't be too many. To make my lenses I am using drinks cans for my lenses. They have been sanded down to make thge metal thinner. I have then used a biro point to make a slight bump which I then sand down. Usually this creates a tiny hole in the crown. To give an idea of scale the squares in the image below are 10mm x 10mm, the hole in the square in the top left is far too big.

Went up to the Vortrekker monument yesterday to take a photograph of  it with Shirley and then today went into to Joburg to take a photograph of  the Ponte Building with Helga. Going to develop the pics tonight so we will have to see what comes out.

 8th: The photo of the Ponte Building came out alright and while the one of the Voortrekker Monument came out so so. Think though I will do them both again just to see if I can get better shots. I know that the Ponte building image shows some signs of fogging. Maybe because of the covers that I was using as a lens cap, we will see.

 10th: What is it? Well 'it is a box from the olden days that people used to sit on and shit', needless to say Shirley wasn't best pleased with this discription given of her by a passing tourist. We had to go back to the Voortrekker Monument as I had forgotten the battery for my camera in the library. This provided me with the perfect opportunity to try and reshoot the monument while dodging the entry fee. I have to be honest as impressed that I am with its size, this is a building that I don't ever forsee myself falling in love with.

22nd: After a bit of a delay work on Trinny is getting on again. I have started to fix the lenses in place. 

As you can see it is an 'Uber' sophisticated bit of technology that is being used for this particular part of the process. The plan is to start trying to take phtos with Trinny next week. I still have a couple of things to sort out. At the moment the two 'door' sections are just catching a little.

Had an all new South African Experience this week - traffic fines or at least the process of trying to pay for them. The one was a breeze. The other a right pain in the arse. I tried three different points - including the local traffic department - and each of them turned me away. Now I understand why paying bribes to traffic officers is endemic to this country. Its not because the fines are expensive, its just that with the effort that is required to pay a fine it simply not worth the bother of trying to be  a law abiding citizen. Why waste a day trying to pay a measly fine when you can just get the pain and misery over with within the space of a couple of minutes. The benefits are two fold; both money and time are saved. Very tempting indeed.

March 2011

6th: The image above is a photograph taken with Helga. I continued with the experiment of opening half the holes. And then flipping the camera and opening up the other half. This time round I asked our gardener, Big Boy and his wife, Grace to first sit and then I sat with my wife for the second exposure. We are the left part of the image and they are the right.

I have to admit that I often if people here have any idea of the difficulties facing the staff they employ when they scream and shout at them for being late. I had no idea the distance that Big Boy and Grace had to travel until last week, and then I was just gobsmacked. They live some two hours away by taxi (south africa style). it seems ridiculous that they travel so far for work but I guess when you have no other option that is what you do.


 13th: Veni...Vidi...Recordabar...Life eventually catches up with you when you are trying to juggle too many things at once. Fortunately this time round it was only an egg that slipped through the net.

The Intoto opening went well. It was very different from any other opening that I have been to. Usually what happens is that a good percentage of the people that go to openings are artists themselves.  We are there to support, socialise and drink. The opening at Intoto was very different , while every one that was there was supporting, socialising and drinking, a good proportion seemed like they could actually afford to buy something and did not view the snacks as a cheap way to dine out.



27th: Work is underway on a new camera. The idea is to take photographs with it that can then be used in the Leonard Cohen Altar piece that Gordon Froud is curating. As is usual with these things you start off with the idea, then comes the drawings, then you buy the materials, then you start working on the materials and then you screw up leaving you with two options; A: buy new materails or B: curse the gods of fuck ups and just redesign the whole thing. In this case I have gone with option B. Hopefully there will not be any further screw ups as there is no option C.

So how will it work? The camera has three sections. These will close in. As each of the sections is a camera it will take three images when opened up. The two side panels will take photos that will be half the size of the one taken by the central section. 

29th: Plodding along with the three screen camera. I haven't given her a name yet but I am sure that I will think of something in due course. I am still being beset by errors, it has to be said that this is mainly due to a lack of concenration. A couple of the pieces made very good frisbies and actually flew a bit further than expected. As you can see the one section has since been claimed.

February 2011

6th: So finally we have progress. I was thinking back to my years at college and of how I got fed up with the whole thing. Looking back at it now I realise that part of the problem was finding myself in this system where you just had to produce. The feeling was more akin to working in a sausage factory. There was no ebb and flow. Of course it suited those who were able to produce all the time but then some of us don't. No judgement it's just a fact of life. So anyway I have cut a load of paper to use in Shirley. Decided to start taking portraits with her.

In the meantime we found an old barbie, some kites and some string and had some fun.

 14th: After, well it must be near on five years since I last took a photograph with Shirley. Somehow that doesn't seem right. Its also been almost two years since I last used Helga. Yesterday we took Shirley out on a safari through a local nature reserve and then today I tried to take a self portrait with Helga. What a mission. I forgot what a fight it was to get the paper in. In the end the image I took with Helga was a little over exposed but the Shirley one came out just fine. I am going to try and redo the Helga one again as the background which used was the same for the two cameras.

23rd: Wow - art really is like catching a bus - nothing comes along for ages and then within the space of two weeks you find that you have sold six pieces. Two helgas have been sold and then four shirlies, three of those were snapped up Standard Bank for their collection. The sad thing was, rather than being able to pop open the champagne to celebrate I had make do with a chocolate milk shake drink from woolworths. That champagne is just going to have to wait a bit longer.

In the mean time I have been busy taking more pics. Mainly self portraits, I have been experimenting with covering up different sections of holes. The pic to the below is my new shutter design for Helga. It features, of course, all the latest trends and innovations in design Using an old folded up sheet and a curtain I have been covering up one set of holes while opening the other. After exposing one set, moving the camera i have been swapping over the arrangement to open up the rest fo the holes to light. Thus one half of the paper is being exposed differently to the other.


28th: Thanks to Tristian Hall I have just been published in the March 2011 edition of photocomment, a local photographic mag. The printed version is only available in South Africa but it can also be viewed over the internet.

January 2011

18th: And yes it is a new year. Not much to report other than since my last entry things have been busy busy busy. Then there has been the Xmas holiday. So now we are back into the need to make money while finding the time perpetual quandry. At least the year has started off on a good note (ignoring the problem of increasing debt) Sold my piece at the Pretoria Artists Associations annual members show. Which was cool but as ever there is that greedy side which wonders would I have been able to sell it for more?

31st: Well the first month of the year has gone. In terms of making stuff, still to pull the preverbial finger out, but then that has never been my style, making stuff for the sake of making stuff. So I do go through these periods of inactivity. I assure you that as soon as I can get my lard arse into gear great things are afoot. In the mean time here are some pics of Shirley that I took this morning. She is looking a bit rough. No I haven't been abusing her its just she has been living in a garage infested with rats for the last couple of years.