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Local image #58
2022, Acrylic on board, 30x30cm
R990.00
10% off R891.00
Between any two points there is an infinity.

What would you like me to do?
Drone of an aeroplane
The plaintive voices of old people
The schlep of shoes over the floor
The male pleasure of testosterone fuelled anger
“Hoekom sleep jy jou pantoffels so?”

I want to explore and enquire my continuous lived experience.

The sundew plant, a carnivorous plant, with beads of sticky fluid, to which insects get ensnared. The plant folds slowly around the insect, and digests it.

Disintegration under your inclement season
What savage blossom could bloom in your inclement weather?

The end, the bottom of the pool, the same experience repeated, repeated, the limited capacity of thought, the minuscule difference in thought patterns.

Two flowers floating, disembodied spirits, lovers, floating, disintegrating flowers, in a field of teal. Blue, rain, dawn or twilight? dim fading light. Rustle of water, rain drops, wet existence in inclement weather, in a trying universe. “It’s the bloom, despite the grid, that makes it beautiful to me”, I thought. The crushed existence, the awkwardly stretched, in a digital storm.

A discrete storm of compartmentalised, determined concepts
Anomalies within the field of determined concepts
Formation formation creation creation

Out of the undifferentiated amorphous mass, the grey gloop, the teal water, the pool of the unconscious, rising to the surface, as vague intuition, and then piercing the surface, rising out, and then floating; gaining a determined existence, apart, a partitive particle, a conscious thought.

Why? Why determine? If everything was one, was everything not happy, content, satisfied? Was there some kind of lack, to motivate a change, an effort?

A fiercely intense burning eye, or star; a consciousness, a determined personality, with its own free will, fluttering on fairy wings.

My home, the other, inside, outside, me, not me.
Intricate lace-work, a network of nerves, through which current, light, electricity, electrons, electro-magnetic waves, coarse, pulse, impulse.
God, creator, beings, creatures
Nurturing, caring, presiding over, taking care
Electronic circuits, gel conductors, transparent organic matter, flesh, eyes, insect eyes.
The entire flower, a floating magic.