Cutaneous | 2012

Second Skin Triptych
Characters ambiguously engage.
Looking at symbolic, cultural and anthropological readings of the body.
Anthropomorphism as a tool for negotiating the dichotomy between the civilized self and the instinctive, untamed self.
An engagement with the skins surface as a boundary, receptive to patterning, mapping and fragmenting.
Investigating notions of displacement and belonging, to evoke a sense of unease and disconnectedness

Linocut with Chine-collé
Exhibited initially as part of Coming of Age, Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2012.

Alien Love depicts a pair of wasps in an ambiguous embrace.
The power-play simultaneously suggests the affection of a mating ritual and conversely, an act of potential violence and threat.
The dichotomous relationship between these actions is displaced, suggesting an uncanny interplay between the foreign and the familiar.

Screenprint
Exhibited as part of Coming of Age, Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2012.

PSR (Two Zebras Passing in the Night)
Ritual act of masquerade.
Headdress or mask acts as a tool for transformation
This work explores the fetishisation of African art, through the commodification of mythologies around cultural identity.

Etching and embossing
Exhibited as part of Coming of Age, Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2012.