What Art Thou?
Here I was explaining ‘my weird’ art to a friend. It was in 2004 I think, when this picture was taken. My friend had stumbled on me working with tyres and nails and wires and pins and spikes and bolts and screws and their ilk. His first reaction was to make a quick test of my sanity or sobriety. He requested I tell him his name. I did. Could I identify the picture embedded in the pendant of his necklace? I could. Satisfied that I was of sound mind, he knitted his brow as he scanned the objects and tools I was busy with. “I’m working on an installation,” I said, answering his unspoken question. “Installation?” My answer tightened his frown. Thing is, for the previous few years, my art had taken a radically new direction, exploring media and techniques I had not worked with before. In my earlier years, especially during the pre-vocational era, I was heavily into drawing and painting – the common, mundane visual art expressions. In fact, in high school at Lotsane, I was an excel...