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Don't mind the body

The reflex arc happens when your doctor hits your knee with a hammer (do they still have those?) and you nearly kick her head in  with a counter impulse. I came upon it when I googled Reflex Art ...

Confession session

The connected world is a world of lies and deception. Switch on the internet and join the (un)happy party of information tourists. I think that before we open our doors to others, we should open ...

Deep dive

The pothole situation in the city has sunk to new depths. After the rain a mere puddle can actually be a deep and treacherous ravine. Half your car can sink and tyres can bust on what you thought...

So, angels rush in

If fools rush in where angels fear to tread, then I’m a fool. I don’t mind admitting that I can make quick decisions based on a passing idea. Anyway why can’t angels be fools also? Why can’t ange...

Paint never dies it dries

However sad your life is, there is always somebody whose life is sadder than yours. However good your art is, there is always somebody whose art is better than yours. Take strength from your posi...

Peace could be overrated

Peace would be the ultimate brand identity, if it wasn’t so intangible. It’s hard to touch peace, even if it’s not impossible to be at peace. The reason why the peace brand would have such br...

Love and Affliction

It’s fine that the party set uses the social media as their own private real estate. But it’s unfair that everyone has to keep up. Recently I’ve landed up online in three happy snaps without perm...

I'm the teddy of the future

Good art can be both sad and embracing. Well not as embracing as a damp towel after a swim, one of my pet hates. I remember being a basically comfortable kid who loathed school swimming lessons f...

Toy land trouble

The world is something like a plastic pet dinosaur, you put your finger up its bum and pull a lever and it snaps its jaw shut. Your other finger can be in its mouth when that happens, and you can...

Sharing my shirt

Having traveled the world is no guarantee of anything. I know people who have been everywhere and they don’t have one interesting story to tell, about where they’ve been. Drugs will give you an i...

Question: What’s a radical girl like you doing in a gallery like this?

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 definit...

I want to break free

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 hun...

Don't dream it to be it

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 throu...

Come play with us

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 pla...

The mind is a jet

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 insult...