MOBY DICK

01.MOBY DICK, 2015
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 100x250 cm
Forces and counter forces ; struggle ,nature, signifier emancipation

02.CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS, 2014
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 155x100 cm
Photographed the wave generated by a ferry on return from the Robben Eiland prison where Mandela and comrades were imprisoned during the struggle against South African Apartheid regime. Terrorism has brought untold havoc on a global level .. Juxtaposed victims of terrorism body bags and drowned bodies of refugees from colonial exploitation. Signifier on a social, political , ecological level.

03.PARADISE, 2015
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 100x110 cm
Flowers, Cactus. birth, womb, erotica; Garden of Eden

04.Transmutation XII, 2015
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 134x110cm
Labyrinthe,skin ,body,face and connecting up via vascular networks in and outer body phenomenon and experience.

05.Transmutation XI, 2015
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 110 x125
Sea ,womb, heart ,world ,connecting up birth ,undercurrents.

06.Transmutation X, 2015
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 160x110
The ancient notion of alchemical transmutation, transferring this idea from inanimate objects to the human soul. Amid a vortex of tiny tubes resembling bones is a skull; An X-ray of a soul and a conscience finding a second life and renewed dignity in a super-terrestrial dimension.

07.Saartje Baartman Story, 2014
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 160X110cm
Saartje Baartman a Khoisan woman shipped to London 1810 from South Africa whose body ,buttocks became the attraction in a cage in view of the Darwinian scientists and public. Slavery abolished, unemployed prostitute in Paris died in 1816. at 26 of alcoholism. Anatomist Curvier dissected her genitals. labia search of ‘primitive sexuality’ with physicians at the Academie Royale de Medecin concluded the oversize genatalia evident of the sexual appetite. Baartman’s genatalia and brains was exhibited until 1994 at the ‘La Musee de l’Homme’ in Paris .End of Apartheid President Mitterand after legal wranglings promised President Mandela for her remains to be buried in South Africa and granted a national burial in South Africa in 2002. For South Africa and the civilized world the case illustrates racist thinking common in 19th and 20thcentury Europe ,and false notions of the superiority of ourWestern civilization 19th Century prints by George Curvier anatomist illustrates “La BelleHottentot”and “Hottentot of Venus”. Hottentot offensive racist name given by Dutch colonialists

08.Close Encounters of a 3rd Kind II, 2013
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 100x 100cm
My work is about the metamorphosis of nature the body reduced to a labyrinthe of chains signifying slavery Saartje Baartman juxtaposed with the Golem fighter against oppression signifier; strategy, survival , decision, masculinity, healing ,time machined in a colonial era, the narrative with Saartje Baartman a Khoisan woman shipped to London 1810 from South Africa by a ship’s captain the close encounter .Her body became the attraction in a cage in view of the Darwinian scientists and the public. Slavery abolished, died Paris

09.Fields of consciousness, 2014
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 140x10

10.Child at play, 2014
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 127x100
Signifier; Heartbeat, womb and the universe, birth, human rights,
Alienation Children victims of terror zones, restoration, renascence and the fulfillment, the dream of world peace.

11.Golem confronts the elements, 2015
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 197x100cm
About strategy, survival , decision, healing , -stresses and strains confronting the elements waves. the quest for survival as a cushion against catastrophe –poverty, oppression, ecological, reconfirm the preciousness of “living” and the importance of “restoration of mind.

12.Saartje’s Alienation, 2015
medium. digital, mixed –media, inkjet print on paper, 192x100
Saartje Baartman a Khoisan woman shipped to London 1810 from South Africa whose body ,buttocks became the attraction in a cage in view of the Darwinian scientists and public. Slavery abolished, unemployed prostitute in Paris died in 1816. at 26 of alcoholism. Anatomist Curvier dissected her genitals. labia search of ‘primitive sexuality’ with physicians at the Academie Royale de Medecin concluded the oversize genatalia evident of the sexual appetite. Baartman’s genatalia and brains was exhibited until 1994 at the ‘La Musee de l’Homme’ in Paris .End of Apartheid President Mitterand after legal wranglings promised President Mandela for her remains to be buried in South Africa and granted a national burial in South Africa in 2002. For South Africa and the civilized world the case illustrates racist thinking common in 19th and 20thcentury Europe ,and false notions of the superiority of our Western civilization 19th Century prints by George Curvier anatomist illustrates “La BelleHottentot”and “Hottentot of Venus”. Hottentot offensive racist name given by Dutch colonialists.

13.Borders , worlds and the bubble universe, 2013:
Medium Digital work, painting, photography. Inkjet print, 104x115cm

I would like to think elements of my work is about parallel phenomena processes, ‘dealing with the invisible’, concretizing ,exposing macro and micro space . I work from large sculptures ,assemblages and or painting ‘combines ‘,crossing lines from painting to sculptures to photography and digital prints for radical “violent” or provocative gestures for combining elements perpetually redefining, signifying international divisions strategic demarcation lines
to the universal transcendence of time the bubble universe.