Art comes with a familiar attitude: you can look but you can’t touch. That’s okay, nobody wants their personal space invaded, and artworks are kind of human in this regard. The artwork by definition tells you treat it with dignity and respect, or face the...
Stuff is the thing that you keep close to you, that has no defined role in your life. People ask what you bought when you went shopping. And if you are slightly ashamed of what you enjoy then you say: stuff. I got stuff. To buy...
Besides the general oddness of the moment, the idea of Sandton being bombed to smithereens somewhat conflicts with one’s picture of Rivonia Road on a busy day carrying on as normal with a few hundred cars traveling in either direction not really hassling anybody. I don’t...
Taking inspiration from the movies is like taking inspiration from real life. You have a main protagonist, you have a situation and then you have moments that may or may not be worth living through. In visual art the outcome is always worth the trouble, because...
The world does not change overnight, because people cannot change in a minute. If you take the sum total of human wakefulness per day, it will probably amount to about 16 hours across the planet in all 24 time zones. In total that makes about...
There’s no real difference between making beautiful art and making art that’s ugly. In practice, that is. Likewise, if you can be nice to people then you can probably also find some way of insulting them. One reaches a point in life where one makes...
Painting the face of the regent doesn’t automatically make one a royalist, but it is an acknowledgement of the power some icons have over our senses. You see an image of the late queen, and you suddenly cannot escape the story of her life. The...
Red is the color of love. That's because blood is red, the heart is red, and flesh is red once you peel the skin off it. All those bodily things are associated with desire and passion, and life's temporary state in which we must find...
When you paint a picture it doesn't help to overthink the meaning of everything. Que sera sera, whatever will be will be, as the song goes. That's become a sort of corny motto for me while I try to get something going that comes from...
When I was a boy there were three things you were expected to say: I wanna be a fireman, I wanna be a pilot, I wanna be a soldier. The fact that I said it also, meant that I was average. I’ve learned to live...