Tattooed Rats; Active / Passive - Action / Passion.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 900;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBtqcs6ReWhogmHJeNTEVjj6ZGlS0vbGAjDN3KOJuHHHZZxoLDt3gVi7Xy005yMOU_ya7USJgzrMo33Kqr1oSp5FR_xic_Hyetc-4vxmDqblcnH87aVAA0FBZ_ziKikkvFOhtIwz4X/s1600-h/The+self-righteous+and+the+outcast+web+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBtqcs6ReWhogmHJeNTEVjj6ZGlS0vbGAjDN3KOJuHHHZZxoLDt3gVi7Xy005yMOU_ya7USJgzrMo33Kqr1oSp5FR_xic_Hyetc-4vxmDqblcnH87aVAA0FBZ_ziKikkvFOhtIwz4X/s400/The+self-righteous+and+the+outcast+web+image.jpg" /></a></span><br /><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial;"><b><br /><br /><br /></b></span></b></span></b></span><br /><span style="color: #a64d79; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">The Self Righteous and the outcast</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #999999; font-weight: 800;"><span style="font-size: small;">Painting and Sgraffito, black under-glaze colour, fired to 1240 degree Celsius. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">180mm length x 130mm height</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A small gallery of selected works from my last exhibition. The chosen pieces, showcasing the diverse range of tattooed rats (realised in different ceramic techniques and processes), were professionally photographed in a studio with proper lighting. What a difference it makes. </b></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSzhaZloG8MMqI_uqO8wxB3warndIrT0WNpct34lcVqsIOOPTQoCkBaZUvjl6Xc_eWsgn4UMjHrC6yHPDZfLbm9hMZqnLqwyEZ-c7JJo3r-tU8DlrNwNmgusxBF98QQVwtRSZMz1Kk/s1600-h/The+Pansy+and+the+Roses+web+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSzhaZloG8MMqI_uqO8wxB3warndIrT0WNpct34lcVqsIOOPTQoCkBaZUvjl6Xc_eWsgn4UMjHrC6yHPDZfLbm9hMZqnLqwyEZ-c7JJo3r-tU8DlrNwNmgusxBF98QQVwtRSZMz1Kk/s400/The+Pansy+and+the+Roses+web+image.jpg" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: 800;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">The Pansy and the Roses</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Colour transfers, gold and platinum lustre, fired to 1120 degree Celsius. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">190mm length x 140mm height</span></span></span></b></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllWg2td__jSu7y_i-WJyrHpA_BkRsAjxmvR_sJhACwX82IhJAUZ17VRLZ2T7VxH26tDC-Sbz53FhWI3BrzxUrFiDs1RyNBE2ZTe1Z35jd1b-gcQ0VP8YmUernYQN1LufTpy7CD8eb/s1600-h/The+Queen+in+the+Face+of+Hell+Web+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllWg2td__jSu7y_i-WJyrHpA_BkRsAjxmvR_sJhACwX82IhJAUZ17VRLZ2T7VxH26tDC-Sbz53FhWI3BrzxUrFiDs1RyNBE2ZTe1Z35jd1b-gcQ0VP8YmUernYQN1LufTpy7CD8eb/s400/The+Queen+in+the+Face+of+Hell+Web+image.jpg" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">The Queen in the face of hell</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Painting and Sgraffito, various under-glaze colours, fired to 1240 degree Celsius. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">180mm length x 130mm height</span></span></span></b></div></b></span></b></span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-SuscPiwc1UYHn9MO9EzeL0DRM2bhYxSYNb7qj1_6RVRJ1oA7jgfdDDFLd3aBIUiDFdqf56KqpRx9VARm1g8j0oLPvlLYmBr7yQu7syICAuTrQ4J5Z98Ndjk5_sjiqsuw4wfRx8ez/s1600-h/Crafty+Rats+web+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-SuscPiwc1UYHn9MO9EzeL0DRM2bhYxSYNb7qj1_6RVRJ1oA7jgfdDDFLd3aBIUiDFdqf56KqpRx9VARm1g8j0oLPvlLYmBr7yQu7syICAuTrQ4J5Z98Ndjk5_sjiqsuw4wfRx8ez/s400/Crafty+Rats+web+image.jpg" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial;"><b>Crafty Rats</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Painting and Sgraffito, black<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> and brown under-glaze colour, fired to 1240 degree Celsius. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">180mm length x 130mm height</span></span></span></span></span></b></div></b></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLiSxgCL2glKuGLa7z6eBHkmBFCBu4kOycWZeB1BzCEZ_NI9hWHwPHPKTkrNuTyisvnEjV2D94N8upFZfz8qbIwthyy-p0vGZ_5TwcPJgW0YvhcMyhQflhTuWU_NfHiDg-N5V2aGZB/s1600-h/The+Cardinal+and+the+Queer+web+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">The Cardinal and the queer</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Colour and black transfers, gold and platinum lustre, fired to 1120 degree Celsius. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">190mm length x 140mm height.</span></span></span></b></div></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRtrORxhW5ZvcwyCWKYu7MDiUZmwXXbS_Aq7csc6VvmC9yhOEQLNx1kuq1qN_KZjH99r19X0xEHeMOfu-3t2cFd2TY9eNemxwf0I3aA3r2HJAQicTD7r5YeJsjjgU9T1nUf8WBt8N/s1600-h/The+Pansy+and+the+Self-righteous+Web+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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Tattooed Rats; Active / Passive - Action / Passion.

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Naked Tattooed Rats

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Painted and incised.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Next week is the Exhibition. Press Release to follow on Wednesday. Here are some <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">finished</span> works photographed for the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">faithful</span> followers - a preview.</span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj57NW3uIga6USUNC0rsyYFXlhlZtzxWl8NLsWdXpXuCmHu98dRpIUulcDbzN7eb4EPgf5cL3U24i2W1PWcnwduk1xJfJUmgjY3SOAZX9Snh_5X2MWrVP8wHpTNKSnMQC5epFqM4fHm/s1600-h/The+Face+of+Hell+Pair+for+Blog.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363191653433219778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj57NW3uIga6USUNC0rsyYFXlhlZtzxWl8NLsWdXpXuCmHu98dRpIUulcDbzN7eb4EPgf5cL3U24i2W1PWcnwduk1xJfJUmgjY3SOAZX9Snh_5X2MWrVP8wHpTNKSnMQC5epFqM4fHm/s320/The+Face+of+Hell+Pair+for+Blog.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 298px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;">The Queen in the face of hell</span> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Pair of Tattooed Rats (colour) fired to 1250 degrees </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Celsius</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">. Painted and incised.</span></span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNar7LB5tMqNFwyh8sICDeNCggq9pmJJ_8iN4qoNasjxdo2lUY6qhxVwRHbfTgyfL0zucPBE3lwqwbp6MW7DvF22RxvW7lZP7mvPUuzUWdw05YL6FFAKNW92p07HTYNLJW7MqT5Vwm/s1600-h/Self+Righteous+Pair+two+for+Blog.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363189376180770290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNar7LB5tMqNFwyh8sICDeNCggq9pmJJ_8iN4qoNasjxdo2lUY6qhxVwRHbfTgyfL0zucPBE3lwqwbp6MW7DvF22RxvW7lZP7mvPUuzUWdw05YL6FFAKNW92p07HTYNLJW7MqT5Vwm/s320/Self+Righteous+Pair+two+for+Blog.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 271px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The Pansy and the Self-righteous.</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Pair of Tattooed Rats (colour) fired to 1250 degrees <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Celsius</span>. Painted and incised.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqdzE531KnD5VTn5wLDOcObYpblkYbzkp9nZo4ZwQ8vLnOH7AkBP1vy2naH5ZNeFt_7X2AI2zJoer9FgQCo7K2PmametpbIZVn5mgvlxvYStiCU3PTIy_BGKYDiy4G9E76vlc4i6j/s1600-h/Pair+of+Rats+Red+and+Black+Sgraffito+for+blog.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363188161109623362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqdzE531KnD5VTn5wLDOcObYpblkYbzkp9nZo4ZwQ8vLnOH7AkBP1vy2naH5ZNeFt_7X2AI2zJoer9FgQCo7K2PmametpbIZVn5mgvlxvYStiCU3PTIy_BGKYDiy4G9E76vlc4i6j/s320/Pair+of+Rats+Red+and+Black+Sgraffito+for+blog.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 245px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#993399;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#993399;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><b>Self-righteous and the Hell-raiser</b></span>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Black and Red </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Sgraffito</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (fired to 1250 degrees </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Celsius</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">). </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">Painted and incised. For a detailed step by step account of the process see previous blog entry below.</span></div></div></div></div>

Naked Tattooed Rats

Group of Tattooed Rats in the Flesh . Tattooed Rats (colour) fired to 1250 degrees Celsius . Painted and incised. Next week is the Exhibitio...

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Tattooed rats

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSjCRra5qGN7CBxP6cD0lXJNX05-dp2jfTVHws6hrVkCv1OEMoiUvobhqGpJnYatpGM62DMvWKRWxS-iZgeiAt7eMO3r0AMC7KdD0dstO5lYqVLnOpJWvDAOqu6WO-mbThx8BN_S-l/s1600-h/Tattooed+rat+black+%26+white.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354627793953705314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSjCRra5qGN7CBxP6cD0lXJNX05-dp2jfTVHws6hrVkCv1OEMoiUvobhqGpJnYatpGM62DMvWKRWxS-iZgeiAt7eMO3r0AMC7KdD0dstO5lYqVLnOpJWvDAOqu6WO-mbThx8BN_S-l/s320/Tattooed+rat+black+%26+white.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Tattooed Rat</span>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Black </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">sgraffito</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">One month to go before the exhibition and I have mastered the techniques and processes. The exhibition should be interesting, considering the diverse range of surface development options. Here are the latest <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">developments</span>. Now its down to the choice of insignia and symbols, including the pairing and or groupings. Display is very important; to maximise the expressive potential of the body work.</span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLnDEFKOBwbk9OeXEqJoghOfishMxjQEg3f10JqvXa5O7es2UcBEBdbCXlZaRSiUAbfdn17xtEahVMuC7_Sv9fcXLEZAVF0YDNTGtd58XYyZrucntQunkWWbok8VZZXrkRQ56zybs0/s1600-h/Pait+of+Tattooed+Rats+side+view.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354626616304220402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLnDEFKOBwbk9OeXEqJoghOfishMxjQEg3f10JqvXa5O7es2UcBEBdbCXlZaRSiUAbfdn17xtEahVMuC7_Sv9fcXLEZAVF0YDNTGtd58XYyZrucntQunkWWbok8VZZXrkRQ56zybs0/s320/Pait+of+Tattooed+Rats+side+view.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#993399;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">A pair of crafty Rats. </span></span></b></span></div><div>Black, brown and white <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">sgraffito</span> surface development options, based on tattoos as discussed in previous posting. </div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVxz5Q4mWW90aUxbt4JjQZDgGISXj2jX9FpAbjLv54xehtY0JAHkxCh_KZEkKjxmFvTGjI6pvsrcwF14BowtMT3UXg9OeaFrMDyW2VeunpjhPzvnDdfPx4zcN9KyOB61Wi9cCdOH3/s1600-h/Tattooed+rat+black+and+brown+two.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354621157509432914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVxz5Q4mWW90aUxbt4JjQZDgGISXj2jX9FpAbjLv54xehtY0JAHkxCh_KZEkKjxmFvTGjI6pvsrcwF14BowtMT3UXg9OeaFrMDyW2VeunpjhPzvnDdfPx4zcN9KyOB61Wi9cCdOH3/s320/Tattooed+rat+black+and+brown+two.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 296px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#993399;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Tattooed rat</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">, black and brown <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">sgraffito</span> (final result)</span>. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">My objective has been to create a product that is also craft based; although I do find the final result successful - I am not use to my work being so rooted within ceramic techniques and processes (too crafty). It's growing on me. This is a very different look than the rats decorated with heart shaped transfers, including gold and silver <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">lustered</span> tails - far more in keeping with my earlier work (posted earlier).</span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif1qaU_WKQU3v5snuV1mKzpd27ialm3EOUE7zGA0ks5PAi0536oxbsQnOX68Bo8xpSHlcaHLDjPtGiwq4wWo4TWwSrye0_VbQI6pbVh3mKf-bonwLgbEFY30wnG_N5wdnuHlGX1C4i/s1600-h/Personified+tattooed+rat.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354619454532774962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif1qaU_WKQU3v5snuV1mKzpd27ialm3EOUE7zGA0ks5PAi0536oxbsQnOX68Bo8xpSHlcaHLDjPtGiwq4wWo4TWwSrye0_VbQI6pbVh3mKf-bonwLgbEFY30wnG_N5wdnuHlGX1C4i/s320/Personified+tattooed+rat.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 314px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">A Flesh-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">ish</span></span> affair. </span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A surface test to create a flesh like </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">appearance</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> for the rat, complete with tattoos. The opportunity exists to apply transfers directly on the </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">flesh like</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> surface. An exciting alternative surface option for the exhibition. </span></span></span></div></div></div></div>

Tattooed rats

Tattooed Rat . Black sgraffito One month to go before the exhibition and I have mastered the techniques and processes. The exhibition should...

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Rats in the spotlight; afternoon with the photographer

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOdX-hPwLwU5JAaQ1z1zf7oN1xhKKGFYaNhI4Kub0E17iKUaS6-oz21xXbwUrEzvQKe_WEkpQT-oqJrg14K-37vYtVaI9cgLsFj3lAywoJL9LBn3ecrWTO6KYnWQo229VfnxXp5YQh/s1600-h/Enlightened+group+of+Confrontational+rats.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345726617835650658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOdX-hPwLwU5JAaQ1z1zf7oN1xhKKGFYaNhI4Kub0E17iKUaS6-oz21xXbwUrEzvQKe_WEkpQT-oqJrg14K-37vYtVaI9cgLsFj3lAywoJL9LBn3ecrWTO6KYnWQo229VfnxXp5YQh/s320/Enlightened+group+of+Confrontational+rats.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Group of enlightened Rats. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Photographs taken by Jan Potgieter; official UJ photographer.</span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFjqdTOqvhhM13BBHPQ0JJ9CTI1rQOSmV4SxohgN6DRVg0Air5IgT9-wPUX9mJdnTF1LgIwtHTK8bbweQ1W1ipBBw4DqlrUYkYm6HPeyVmcaZ0-7qvoKqQr71KP3TQCjqpZcea79cw/s1600-h/Pair+of+Rats+confrontational+final.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345721481109322418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFjqdTOqvhhM13BBHPQ0JJ9CTI1rQOSmV4SxohgN6DRVg0Air5IgT9-wPUX9mJdnTF1LgIwtHTK8bbweQ1W1ipBBw4DqlrUYkYm6HPeyVmcaZ0-7qvoKqQr71KP3TQCjqpZcea79cw/s320/Pair+of+Rats+confrontational+final.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 189px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#993399;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Pair of confrontational Rats.</span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The war of the roses - does the pansy have a chance; will his shiny silver stiletto be a match for his counterpart's 24 <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">carat</span> gold<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"> </span>member. </span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio6xwJjPRrrCBgPpflHZ_hI1hDgLdrAQVmFsLkS8y1yG-s6gOEYPPT219U0AoXrUYHK4RqP7HefHIG5TCCNjlH9H9pp2DvJI8oiDeycoidFx4X8xQUyrcQ5D-Abwf9TZ1NbtlcRHSA/s1600-h/Brat+Rats+in+conversation+sgrafitto+detail.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345720532921475090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio6xwJjPRrrCBgPpflHZ_hI1hDgLdrAQVmFsLkS8y1yG-s6gOEYPPT219U0AoXrUYHK4RqP7HefHIG5TCCNjlH9H9pp2DvJI8oiDeycoidFx4X8xQUyrcQ5D-Abwf9TZ1NbtlcRHSA/s320/Brat+Rats+in+conversation+sgrafitto+detail.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 301px; height: 320px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;">Palaver</span></b></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(for more details see caption below)</span></span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7rSD1pEpOSyMl39eAuPxAIvz1miXSet7CUBtopTUcy4Z23yHzMeh08tFRqzaVPrLn4W1CgeKMwQcg4JFEUYcxmwblRIeP8kLbJMdpUGXC4TE0666vQDpCNEM1n4-u05QdPJ1mhqm2/s1600-h/Confrontational+Ceramics+Brat+Rats+Sgrafitto+two.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345711391280173906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7rSD1pEpOSyMl39eAuPxAIvz1miXSet7CUBtopTUcy4Z23yHzMeh08tFRqzaVPrLn4W1CgeKMwQcg4JFEUYcxmwblRIeP8kLbJMdpUGXC4TE0666vQDpCNEM1n4-u05QdPJ1mhqm2/s320/Confrontational+Ceramics+Brat+Rats+Sgrafitto+two.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Palaver.</span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The title refers to the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">village</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> palaver or council model in many parts of Africa; it is a model of free discourse for the purpose of making good judgement and for doing justice for individuals and the community. " Those that have lived in Africa know that the African people are democratic to a point of inaction. Things are never settled until everyone has had something to say. (The traditional African Council) allows the free expression of all shades of opinions". This simplified response does not necessarily make the practise of such a palaver "democratic" or "philosophical." It does, however , suggest that beyond "a point of inaction" some due process may be taking place and extensive consideration is given to important issues concerning village life - issues such as fairness, equality, kinds of punishment, general welfare, and the just resolutions of disputes. These are, of course, the very issues of concern in all the recent studies of justice in Western Philosophy, i.e. by </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Rawls</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Nozick</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Dworkin</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Sandel</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, and others (Bell, R </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Understanding African Philosophy</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. 2002; 113.)</span></span></div></div></div></div>

Rats in the spotlight; afternoon with the photographer

Group of enlightened Rats. Photographs taken by Jan Potgieter; official UJ photographer. Pair of confrontational Rats. The war of the roses ...

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Exquisite Slave : Popsy : Popsie

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGMeFAwQ02OSO3TV21T7Vp1Cc_U2yNpTBMTildaVPbNqlGo92WXdN4qpYD_SssQrHsHpvyA9pp4AodR7PY-GHMnUIC4_ULPbISNsHfDTx9ZssHvDN1DwprLNZTO9DMzgRJqle5caE/s1600-h/Popsie+Paul%27s+image+compressed.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320419457852681106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGMeFAwQ02OSO3TV21T7Vp1Cc_U2yNpTBMTildaVPbNqlGo92WXdN4qpYD_SssQrHsHpvyA9pp4AodR7PY-GHMnUIC4_ULPbISNsHfDTx9ZssHvDN1DwprLNZTO9DMzgRJqle5caE/s320/Popsie+Paul%27s+image+compressed.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 213px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Exquisite Slave, Popsy, Popsie</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">.</span> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">(front above and back below) Earthenware fired, slip cast Ceramic sculpture with ceramic decals and gold lustre. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLHpz-nhPGPOscuJ_u1lbMx2e2JxvVRSyamlaWjRiq619qZg_mkjHZ9LDgKS0wcNmyGOUVqx5GLhjD8R24BQOaXF3Nm0WKiBelTEWWn2kCcRKjVvNq6aQMvuUiJ93fQQLgeyYutfq5/s1600-h/Popsie+back+jan%27s+image+compressed.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320419357035604754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLHpz-nhPGPOscuJ_u1lbMx2e2JxvVRSyamlaWjRiq619qZg_mkjHZ9LDgKS0wcNmyGOUVqx5GLhjD8R24BQOaXF3Nm0WKiBelTEWWn2kCcRKjVvNq6aQMvuUiJ93fQQLgeyYutfq5/s320/Popsie+back+jan%27s+image+compressed.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 213px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">We are all criminals in here and if I say you are a criminal that means I respect you. But if you have (had) sex (done to you) it's obvious that they will (see) you differently. Even the criminal in you is now gone and you are now a "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">wyfie</span>" (<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">someones</span> wife). There is nothing we can do for (a person who has been raped) and we don't care.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">If I allow myself to become a lady, I am going to be a "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">wyfie</span>" until I finish my sentence. That's definitely sure and that's the truth. Even if I can be transferred to (an) other prison the guys there will know that where I come from, I was so-and-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">so's</span> "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">wyfie</span>" (wife) and will make sure that I become a wife there. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 78%;">Two <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">quotes</span> from <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">prisoners</span> as captured in a South African correctional services report on rape and violence in our prisons. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This sculpture </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" style="font-weight: bold;">comments</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> on rape and violence in South African prisons - especially the impact it has on the inmate's masculinity. Sex is never discussed or even spoken about and when it is mentioned, it is </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" style="font-weight: bold;">referred</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to as "</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" style="font-weight: bold;">Daai</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Ding" (that thing) in </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" style="font-weight: bold;">Afrikaans</span>. Attractive young men that commit a crime and get sent to prison will have to defend their masculinity by stabbing a warden or another inmate, if they <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">don't</span>, they will require protection and through subtle favours will become <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">someones</span> wife / "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">wyfie</span>". Should they refuse, they could be raped and then their masculinity and respect as a criminal is gone forever anyway. One cannot imagine how it really affects such inmates, especially when they return home to their real wives and kids on release from prison.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf54PG5FWtI4g9ZTRBcRwKFtwKf9ZNLz-ZgoUVehpl6iHHI8vc0RN5YiIUfuwVfeqp1fiWVWTnpM8JM_b4d2ccwkCMkSJQtO1ZfeJpi_0TOn4joFFT_3Te6YCV8Km1R-42kGuvLrcp/s1600-h/popsie+base+one+compress.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319419768651635170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf54PG5FWtI4g9ZTRBcRwKFtwKf9ZNLz-ZgoUVehpl6iHHI8vc0RN5YiIUfuwVfeqp1fiWVWTnpM8JM_b4d2ccwkCMkSJQtO1ZfeJpi_0TOn4joFFT_3Te6YCV8Km1R-42kGuvLrcp/s320/popsie+base+one+compress.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 254px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #993399; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Exquisite Slave : Popsy :</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> Popsie</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> (</span>Detail of base) Earthenware fired, slip cast Ceramic sculpture with ceramic decals and gold lustre. </span>

Exquisite Slave : Popsy : Popsie

Exquisite Slave, Popsy, Popsie . (front above and back below) Earthenware fired, slip cast Ceramic sculpture with ceramic decals and gold l...

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Porcelain hand built sketch.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QP0fAxtMcagxoj3VLo2WvuR54VXnh__Ttj0EyAXJp1VPpqqN2o6eCNNuzA4y8NiDpOA7dwJ7G1UafLLVcyMgh6PkzmBXV33EUSMBMEevsvirbfzK-SaVqKqW5vV6pzMZzHAYUcuM/s1600-h/Shark+and+wave+perfect+compressed.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320422803707137970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QP0fAxtMcagxoj3VLo2WvuR54VXnh__Ttj0EyAXJp1VPpqqN2o6eCNNuzA4y8NiDpOA7dwJ7G1UafLLVcyMgh6PkzmBXV33EUSMBMEevsvirbfzK-SaVqKqW5vV6pzMZzHAYUcuM/s320/Shark+and+wave+perfect+compressed.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 266px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Encounter</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">.</span> <span style="font-family: arial;">(Feb.09) 170x140x50 mm. Hand built porcelain piece. I have not hand built with porcelain for about 13 years. I decided to make work whilst teaching ceramic practice to the second years. They had to explore plasticity and rigidity; a project brief, introducing them to hand building. Working with slabs and modeling organic and related material, they had to create a piece that demonstrated the diverse properties of clay. Appropriate surfaces had to be developed (mainly textures) to compliment the two contrasting themes. I took the images of the piece, with my cell phone, when it came out of the kiln this morning. I gave a talk at Ceramics SA's AGM. Everyone there enjoyed the work, I therefore decided to post it on my blog. Below is a detail of the fish perturbed by the impending doom on the surface - a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai">Hokusai</a> inspired <a href="http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~kinsner/about/gwave.html">Wave's</a> encounter with a shark. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The same wave appears in two dimensions (ballpoint pen drawing) as a decal / transfer on the paper boats in the to be continued post below.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPbBbT6DQ_rvMLtBH1YlgDtZdL_vFDA0BQFVOhjlN9v1TY8fZ_u75hW_IsoKLnZt6G1HHEe6Etg-7qVwwsujk_JRBubJM1gKNFORMBF16fOLiXBw25TU0C0EmbIsiW8n_aWJKLTjzq/s1600-h/Detail+of+fishes.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305308524854791650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPbBbT6DQ_rvMLtBH1YlgDtZdL_vFDA0BQFVOhjlN9v1TY8fZ_u75hW_IsoKLnZt6G1HHEe6Etg-7qVwwsujk_JRBubJM1gKNFORMBF16fOLiXBw25TU0C0EmbIsiW8n_aWJKLTjzq/s320/Detail+of+fishes.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 275px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Encounter</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> (</span>Detail)</span>

Porcelain hand built sketch.

Encounter . (Feb.09) 170x140x50 mm. Hand built porcelain piece. I have not hand built with porcelain for about 13 years. I decided to make ...

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To be continued!

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2td4hrfjys39-SJDpcizGtx2AWnTscbb7uGGxPScHGkdQUax79oQ-IQwjafHyfWM3niATzKJ8eT8QFN7saz04M5C_-K8FtwWInFKGbzxsKHx9ca5YW21j6dfo3eo6DrzJNDI6Nfb/s1600-h/The+ship+sails+on+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302948936185533314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2td4hrfjys39-SJDpcizGtx2AWnTscbb7uGGxPScHGkdQUax79oQ-IQwjafHyfWM3niATzKJ8eT8QFN7saz04M5C_-K8FtwWInFKGbzxsKHx9ca5YW21j6dfo3eo6DrzJNDI6Nfb/s320/The+ship+sails+on+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 236px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The ships sail on</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">and on</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">(1999) Private collection.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Hand built paper clay constructed origami boats fired to 1186 degrees with decals of my ballpoint pen drawings. I will be experimenting with colour transfers (colour ballpoint pen drawings) on porcelain shortly. The series of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami">origami</a> inspired ceramic statements will included water bombs & other related forms and shapes suitable to the evocative nature of literary sources to be investigated.</span>

To be continued!

The ships sail on and on , (1999) Private collection. Hand built paper clay constructed origami boats fired to 1186 degrees with decals of...

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Old work new images.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8yPVHCGWD5nxczkps-VipOPA29_-1XC25xAL-ADsxBiiNaHEDMfm75d14Kk22rT2lb32MNi6fwL-g-txSpDgzirkUHw9yNoWfxM0HEgzhO-R8wjlQAGrok5j_DE7sD9FTVoCIhKC2/s1600-h/instal+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303793952915224322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8yPVHCGWD5nxczkps-VipOPA29_-1XC25xAL-ADsxBiiNaHEDMfm75d14Kk22rT2lb32MNi6fwL-g-txSpDgzirkUHw9yNoWfxM0HEgzhO-R8wjlQAGrok5j_DE7sD9FTVoCIhKC2/s320/instal+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 221px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Ceramic Installation</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">, </span>Market Theater Gallery (1989).<br />The ceramic works </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">that follow formed part of an installation of 30 pieces, held at the Market Theater Gallery in downtown Johannesburg in 1989. The work was in direct response to the political situation in the country (during apartheid era of the 1980s). There was a very strict ban on the media at the time - however photographs and the visual arts enjoyed some freedom; albeit locally. There was an International Cultural Boycott (instituted against all South Africans) and the work therefore could only be seen by the local community - even though numerous artists worked and exhibited whilst in exile. Here at home it was very much a situation of preaching to the converted.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Because very few people of the international ceramic community have actually seen my earlier work, I have decided to showcase a few ceramic statements sculpted during apartheid - some images are of my studio (at the institution where I taught), showing work in progress. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I have been asked to approach someone to write an article about my work for Ceramic Art and Perception. Hopefully some of these images will evoke interest whilst the article is being written.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5RcfQ318t-5HPsxIQ0ExjI-YuBvICYYF42ikng-9WQcIielhgdmny1OOORsC0CeBpEJg0E8wXYCjgGT88xqRTQ6k-IY-DJdPyfllhkZEGwXVnLVxKcYjvMQ5l3ppBvqat3p07pB-/s1600-h/pink+car+National+Party+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303793665702851378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5RcfQ318t-5HPsxIQ0ExjI-YuBvICYYF42ikng-9WQcIielhgdmny1OOORsC0CeBpEJg0E8wXYCjgGT88xqRTQ6k-IY-DJdPyfllhkZEGwXVnLVxKcYjvMQ5l3ppBvqat3p07pB-/s320/pink+car+National+Party+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 230px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The National Party</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> (</span>ruling Party's Car of 1989).</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;">Collection JAG (Johannesburg Art Gallery). </span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">The car is depicted boiling and looking worse for wear (taking strain), symbolic of the ruling party's endeavour to find answers in a losing battle with the ever so determined majority (International Sanctions and Boycotts). They are leading the procession of cars into an arena (a political rally of sorts before God). The cars are moving through a guard of honour, created by the left and right wing party's representatives and or pawns. On the outskirts (on the periphery of the installation) are the wild pack of dogs, smoke fired and ready to pounce and grab the spoils - they are individually animated (press moulded with hand built extensions) and reminiscent of the jackal headed Anubis (guider of the souls to the underworld - Egyptian Mythology) <span style="font-size: 85%;">see images far down below. </span></span><br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEHXj4G8613C2auAMpPZh5_DmgEH_Mk6IEYia-rNJ9NgBKp2BqfTFR19wgA7IUhZvXBDI8CC9AG7CA0kI0He5GaRA7qTp31VqqQVgDsGd1fLTTs4I0yKKGgj0x8ympiscfreonkr5/s1600-h/ET+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303409096931998002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEHXj4G8613C2auAMpPZh5_DmgEH_Mk6IEYia-rNJ9NgBKp2BqfTFR19wgA7IUhZvXBDI8CC9AG7CA0kI0He5GaRA7qTp31VqqQVgDsGd1fLTTs4I0yKKGgj0x8ympiscfreonkr5/s320/ET+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 267px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Eugene Terre-blanche</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">,</span> The leader of the AWB, an extreme right wing political grouping in South Africa, whose political views were premised </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">on the Nazi SS. They demanded a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">separate</span> state within the new political dispensation, and to meet these objectives, many of them moved to a place in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner_Weerstandsbeweging">Central South Africa, called "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Oranje</span>"</a> - a place where they could live side by side, share similar values; albeit one of the minority groupings in South Africa. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZXM8I1QOSc9WMmALBfaRuRFyVRwO-4J6euxbkE9i2GIKIAbH-Hf2yiN8gnxZpY4VPEleFEcLTGuqiuwl50PTavM9oMQ04RKkEEguQT7kSbzviynyWti8wSDVLNwJ4holxV-6Yg0F/s1600-h/AWB+3D+view+web+perfect.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303408927648908354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZXM8I1QOSc9WMmALBfaRuRFyVRwO-4J6euxbkE9i2GIKIAbH-Hf2yiN8gnxZpY4VPEleFEcLTGuqiuwl50PTavM9oMQ04RKkEEguQT7kSbzviynyWti8wSDVLNwJ4holxV-6Yg0F/s320/AWB+3D+view+web+perfect.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 277px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Conservatives</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">, </span>One of three cars depicting the major political groupings in South Africa, leading the procession is the National Party - the ruling party of the day, then</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> the Conservative Party (The Conservatives - image above and below)</span>. <span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One car represented black leaders, sellouts to the government</span></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;">of the day, <span style="font-family: arial;">for accepting to rule apartheid created black homeland states; organised round various ethnic groupings in designated areas, reminiscent of the present provincial system. Numerous black people, without the vote, were repatriated to these states</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">; the ruling party's last resort to level the political playing fields and secure the majority of the land, the wealthy regions in SA for themselves (to protect minority rights).</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwzt_XRwUsJgcq5i2-lHVb8O8qDcdjEYEX3OX1GVq_lnI1_98otl4s1l0CUKnQfsBj4caehK25Pptby4ue9UopFGi0sKJDhMgrcOpvR8aZn5SFYJkk0sQvrdQaxeiKUh-w7XIIP1g9/s1600-h/AWB+Side+View+Web+.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303408668091564978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwzt_XRwUsJgcq5i2-lHVb8O8qDcdjEYEX3OX1GVq_lnI1_98otl4s1l0CUKnQfsBj4caehK25Pptby4ue9UopFGi0sKJDhMgrcOpvR8aZn5SFYJkk0sQvrdQaxeiKUh-w7XIIP1g9/s320/AWB+Side+View+Web+.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 230px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Conservatives</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">,</span> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Side view depicting the conservatives of the day and their offspring as Nazi youth. Take a closer view of the <span style="font-style: italic;">ossewa</span> (ox wagon) paraphernalia, depicted as a mascot on the grill of the motorcar, reminiscent of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzrZKnO9pXo">Die Groot-trek (The Great Ox wagon journey of 1836</a>). The Afrikaners, who objected to British rule (enforced English), </span>moved in huge numbers in ox wagons up north </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">to find their hinterland / promised land. The cigar in the farmers mouth is reminiscent of a barrel of a gun, whilst the woman wears a conservative hat. Every year, clad in these traditional clothing, they would attend a cultural festival at the </span></span><a href="http://www.voortrekkermon.org.za/"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Voortrekker </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Monument</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> (built outside Pretoria</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">). Every conservative Afrikaans speaking South African would attend the celebrations to commemorate the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Vow">Day of the Covenant</a>;</span> God's intervention to safe them as a nation at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blood_River">"The battle of Blood River".</a></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzF9ncFwnjxaTYKN2ysaXG2G5bdfdVSnozV562SPh8TJ2rSDH-L0ihq3d-iIB5uc7wyQ65gW0om1VSSlq1tYx0W5jC0h2_lxY8HahLErgj9gk6HPKEsTlnC7j2zWYEr9vI0bsd0BI/s1600-h/Police+web+perfect.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303408486659465842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzF9ncFwnjxaTYKN2ysaXG2G5bdfdVSnozV562SPh8TJ2rSDH-L0ihq3d-iIB5uc7wyQ65gW0om1VSSlq1tYx0W5jC0h2_lxY8HahLErgj9gk6HPKEsTlnC7j2zWYEr9vI0bsd0BI/s320/Police+web+perfect.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 296px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The Police</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">,</span></span><br />Police motorcars were painted yellow and blue during the 1980's. The above image is reminiscent of the governments pawns of the day, the policemen and woman including informants and of course the military that enforced their presence when the ruling party declared a state of emergency, especially during major riots . Clad in copper (Copper Nazi helmet and buttocks) the piglet has a tail and horns symbolic of the devil and in it's mouth is stuffed a hot dog - see detail below.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3B9T19mDJj9XklfU3IV3n7GXftFR0pravbD_viJwuIO610-HM6C8pLEQOzQh0y_7NkaRv6iaYJsELnL84nrAlpnxDy5QZEU4k58R0fqn1mrqJn3t-HXNqNwzqg5ZYA3jPVuhw5D74/s1600-h/Policeman+detail+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303408308492925330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3B9T19mDJj9XklfU3IV3n7GXftFR0pravbD_viJwuIO610-HM6C8pLEQOzQh0y_7NkaRv6iaYJsELnL84nrAlpnxDy5QZEU4k58R0fqn1mrqJn3t-HXNqNwzqg5ZYA3jPVuhw5D74/s320/Policeman+detail+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 262px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Policeman</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span></span>(Detail)</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9fkCfJ0dBQuBXhEsQaYkz2uKHxIPhdj4roy9cQo0CZcfr0-v701mO95i1rwSJfsLItGQSVMVopD-gXmaDpARRd0xL6Oix5iepXEPSVuJQMkrvGEYKVDSoQlwRFtD5VqUQzS9zeaV/s1600-h/dogs+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303405539981031170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9fkCfJ0dBQuBXhEsQaYkz2uKHxIPhdj4roy9cQo0CZcfr0-v701mO95i1rwSJfsLItGQSVMVopD-gXmaDpARRd0xL6Oix5iepXEPSVuJQMkrvGEYKVDSoQlwRFtD5VqUQzS9zeaV/s320/dogs+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 214px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Wild dogs</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">( </span>Anubis inspired creatures)</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">On the outskirts were the pack of wild dogs (20 of them), smoke fired and ready to pounce and grab the spoils - they are individually animated (press moulded with hand built extensions) and reminiscent of the jackal headed Anubis (guider of the souls to the underworld - Egyptian Mythology)</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh__OrzgOHyp1A2tTj6otL654HOWZlM2KmOiAfjbraZZyaIIwd-ycxXLdYbh9YyS3A73f8Y2BEPG_3n0R0OHyZ4RMWFNvngvoiBqeEj8sKc0Dyt18I0zlo0eFIDMHHMPUDoU6fMe6-f/s1600-h/dog+web+II.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303405403536352930" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh__OrzgOHyp1A2tTj6otL654HOWZlM2KmOiAfjbraZZyaIIwd-ycxXLdYbh9YyS3A73f8Y2BEPG_3n0R0OHyZ4RMWFNvngvoiBqeEj8sKc0Dyt18I0zlo0eFIDMHHMPUDoU6fMe6-f/s320/dog+web+II.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 243px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Another pair of Wild dogs</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">(Anubis inspired creatures);</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> details of it's significance is explained in the caption above.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDuBMPlUywuiSToyzQ4dobZR4xalXlq1QLxAsnoX055NnthClbgDjE__MI4xGwQPwnLkx6ZyVdbsyuhPhT-ecEAhmBR-71EXO57X_r6Wj_Q0QNpUiO4TW-EnrVEKrpfyvCY0tYwaR/s1600-h/dog+barking+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303405234713640802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDuBMPlUywuiSToyzQ4dobZR4xalXlq1QLxAsnoX055NnthClbgDjE__MI4xGwQPwnLkx6ZyVdbsyuhPhT-ecEAhmBR-71EXO57X_r6Wj_Q0QNpUiO4TW-EnrVEKrpfyvCY0tYwaR/s320/dog+barking+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 266px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Wild Dog</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span>- closeup.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDHACMdqL48v3f3MCa9FLyEHEMQ8RK8PkaJUtjyJamokRpXBqLCIrb1T3IAZuTjOA-x1K_9c7yDqtmXrU2mXEa14N6wafyHDe-9ZEyC489BFbXq56tA5XoLsd0v1skE5J7DxB5WhC9/s1600-h/Saint+george+and+dragon+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303404905340092050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDHACMdqL48v3f3MCa9FLyEHEMQ8RK8PkaJUtjyJamokRpXBqLCIrb1T3IAZuTjOA-x1K_9c7yDqtmXrU2mXEa14N6wafyHDe-9ZEyC489BFbXq56tA5XoLsd0v1skE5J7DxB5WhC9/s320/Saint+george+and+dragon+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 223px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><a href="http://images.google.co.za/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=ci&q=Saint+George+and+the+Dragon&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=StKZSbekKpDWMZbOyPcL&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title">Saint George and the Dragon</a></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">,</span> (1988) </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;">Collection Carl <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Landsberg</span></span>.<br /><br />The ceramic statement depicts the ruling National Party (1980's) as the dragon like vehicle in confrontation with <a href="http://images.google.co.za/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=ci&q=Saint+George+and+the+Dragon&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=StKZSbekKpDWMZbOyPcL&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title">Saint George</a>, the black liberation figure. He is the offspring of the acrobatic Peruvian inspired ceramic figurine (collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art), giving birth to the liberator. He is reminiscent of the boy in the movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Drum-Original-Theatrical-Release-All-region/dp/B000MVMXCK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1234817531&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Tin Drum</span></a>, clothed in animal skins, whilst his arm is outstretched in the shape of a wooden club, ready to pounce the dragon. The Ice cream is symbolic of the boy's knighthood - god's divine intervention in support of his cause - black liberation theology.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZPaREs3-DBCykb-fhXlqFlMPU3kXKbJMmRLdr2Uv7rYIr5F_Skfv434KvN7a6IM2vKAYMMWvrpbY017305d9st19mnp7VXRyhtUFM2y5Mhbk6JsNj27UmT_ZN8oS-wyv1g0YgtxK1/s1600-h/Detail+siant+george.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303404743302849634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZPaREs3-DBCykb-fhXlqFlMPU3kXKbJMmRLdr2Uv7rYIr5F_Skfv434KvN7a6IM2vKAYMMWvrpbY017305d9st19mnp7VXRyhtUFM2y5Mhbk6JsNj27UmT_ZN8oS-wyv1g0YgtxK1/s320/Detail+siant+george.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 218px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Saint George and the Dragon</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">, Detail (1988) </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;">Collection Carl <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Landsberg</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVxpZicmLM5mgAuQBBM4FPgBpfBil1XqPqmH876wr9ZZ1eBt2b9qR-fRIemweLexBya0OUPOLvnUYlVpmwjpkUhf80HDEowRkXOZhCkYLVZBguV_pGumCPtuQUwpFGE0dpSatdGs86/s1600-h/The+Joy+of+a+Hypo+Web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302634991173710626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVxpZicmLM5mgAuQBBM4FPgBpfBil1XqPqmH876wr9ZZ1eBt2b9qR-fRIemweLexBya0OUPOLvnUYlVpmwjpkUhf80HDEowRkXOZhCkYLVZBguV_pGumCPtuQUwpFGE0dpSatdGs86/s320/The+Joy+of+a+Hypo+Web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 211px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The joy of a hypocrite is but for a moment</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">, </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">(</span>1988), <span style="font-size: 85%;">an edition of two</span>; <span style="font-size: 85%;">One in a private collection, the other in the National Gallery in Cape Town.</span><br />Earthenware ceramic sculpture; Press-moulded with hand built extensions, painted with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Amaco</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">under glaze</span> colours, glazed and fired to 11:20 degrees, Acrylic painting in selected areas to reinforce a plastic feel. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The work </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">depicts the awkward situation of the white minority; also the government of the day - in a very compromised situation. </span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXii8P_H3rTTHM-tQ6DVN7lckGHyU6e7oXcHEg7rrmrXprCgfy4MMfetJls0no7as8hQgS51Q8BG3lX39AokfAoTbRliJgZUdZ5fsnc94Zvb2EADp5mC0-YJZNY4SYQyMl3kwLng9/s1600-h/Working+in+studio+at+the+TWR+in+1989+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302628686410570738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXii8P_H3rTTHM-tQ6DVN7lckGHyU6e7oXcHEg7rrmrXprCgfy4MMfetJls0no7as8hQgS51Q8BG3lX39AokfAoTbRliJgZUdZ5fsnc94Zvb2EADp5mC0-YJZNY4SYQyMl3kwLng9/s320/Working+in+studio+at+the+TWR+in+1989+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 222px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Working in my studio at the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Technikon</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> Witwatersrand in 1989</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">.</span> </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzmiIycdqpCS-O-ko3FoVczlibO2AWy0F-M2jiSzgDip05yt16t_B7-5_D3e1SyNl_SVlmf2D7fLUfoPJ47yGIEyPPhy8meiewlnMnepb1EP4x8uJAaHeX2leO7EB7-EsfIm9RyIz/s1600-h/AWB+%26+sculptures+drying+in+the+studio+web.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302628017504159698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzmiIycdqpCS-O-ko3FoVczlibO2AWy0F-M2jiSzgDip05yt16t_B7-5_D3e1SyNl_SVlmf2D7fLUfoPJ47yGIEyPPhy8meiewlnMnepb1EP4x8uJAaHeX2leO7EB7-EsfIm9RyIz/s320/AWB+%26+sculptures+drying+in+the+studio+web.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 251px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Closeup </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">of studio - work in progress in 1989</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">.</span>

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Ceramic Installation , Market Theater Gallery (1989). The ceramic works that follow formed part of an installation of 30 pieces, held at the...

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BIG SHOTS. RAW WAR RAW WOE MAN

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSvAVNSZH38djkAo6pJVQoIQN2Kcty3ZPZqfekmUYBCgoG2-ZbcezYgA1LKftRmAkr0ESZqRpVMI94iAiX-LN-Yln43n5oXRab-RFBzVa78HyiqksHBmJhsD-IdZRDNe0LpbYWVgXZ/s1600-h/Big+Shot+w.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297423907888480194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSvAVNSZH38djkAo6pJVQoIQN2Kcty3ZPZqfekmUYBCgoG2-ZbcezYgA1LKftRmAkr0ESZqRpVMI94iAiX-LN-Yln43n5oXRab-RFBzVa78HyiqksHBmJhsD-IdZRDNe0LpbYWVgXZ/s320/Big+Shot+w.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 203px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc66cc; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><div><span style="color: #cc66cc; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc66cc; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Big Shots, (2008).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> Copies of ballpoint pen drawings, preparatory studies for a ceramic sculpture.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Writer </span><a href="http://www.margieorford.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Margie Orford</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">sees </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">contact crime and crimes against women and children as sublimated civil war</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">writes Sue Grant Marshall</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Books Weekend Review,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The weekender Saturday - Sunday Jan 24-25 2009.<br /></span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">In South Africa </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">war ended and the violence started</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> - it's gone into the bodies of women and kids. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">It's a failure of masculinity</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">. Men just don't know how to behave. "Its such a violent, misogynistic society, so filled with hatred of the feminine, as evidenced in a 13 -year-old girl being stabbed 150 times."<br /><br />"Orford wants to know what happens when fathers, in a literal and metaphorical sense, rape small girls and then throw them away 'like an old tissue. A little girl is a symbol of hope and regeneration. Such a patriarchal culture has to implode'".<br /></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">I thought it fitting, in the context of the above listed quotes to showcase some of my old work and more importantly a ballpoint pen drawing for a ceramic sculpture to be titled </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Big Shots </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">(all capturing aspects associated with the issues above*)</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The work took shape in direct response to all the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">senseless violence in the world ( war & violent crime).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> The central figure represents society frustrated by the egos of masculine war moguls & warlords.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br /><br />*</span> <a href="http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Umberto Eco</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> in his new book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Turning-Back-Clock-Media-Populism/dp/0156034212/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233408060&sr=1-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Turning back the clock</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> states that "it is as if history, breathless after leaps forward made in the last two millennia, is drawing back into itself, returning to the comfortable splendours of tradition (2008:4).</span><br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nRdHjOrJSordfH1TUMOlfEEeQiRE-JD21PLbDibf5uYVm_3gHJZL_cRF_8uW4nVQWuzUgYT_DNSkxHO45xKzZUrbCO8SwCexL6A_v0Mf4y5YU4ztCJel3bo8cWG47yNSHrzQ8k9w/s1600-h/The+spirit+of+a+wounded+nationa+flows+away+with+it%27s+Blood..JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297423297081463586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nRdHjOrJSordfH1TUMOlfEEeQiRE-JD21PLbDibf5uYVm_3gHJZL_cRF_8uW4nVQWuzUgYT_DNSkxHO45xKzZUrbCO8SwCexL6A_v0Mf4y5YU4ztCJel3bo8cWG47yNSHrzQ8k9w/s320/The+spirit+of+a+wounded+nationa+flows+away+with+it%27s+Blood..JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 226px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The Spirit of a wounded nation flows away with it's blood</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">,</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">(1995) </span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Collection of the Johannesburg Art Gallery</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> Terracotta hand built ceramic sculpture.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ2bAmc-H2ktl1WiLcXZE7gZq0GVT4uPD26p2ZwDS_ci3jAAfrlRM3Dcmw5PNVtsdSMaGxdc6-v0ixHY5vVoZPzR_z_jToxUWk3_yGXimNFDoj9H-mdJUMd5ZZOIph6pLPTCfyynkX/s1600-h/The+spirit+of+a+wounded+nation+detail..JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297422851865592498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ2bAmc-H2ktl1WiLcXZE7gZq0GVT4uPD26p2ZwDS_ci3jAAfrlRM3Dcmw5PNVtsdSMaGxdc6-v0ixHY5vVoZPzR_z_jToxUWk3_yGXimNFDoj9H-mdJUMd5ZZOIph6pLPTCfyynkX/s320/The+spirit+of+a+wounded+nation+detail..JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 156px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The Spirit of a wounded nation flows away with it's blood</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Detail</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">(1995).</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZS1dlesR3D9PnQjBm82-mQHA_chdNqhvqF5j1YE7Tb49-qoEQmHTiMnjUHfpWZeAbn2ZKCKrM4IZ7osKYEganDLzxET6DI-on6Rofpa0s_amjO5I5aKnvzhrpU2ADbMHN8SSHW-cz/s1600-h/Night+Howler+1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297422350765061938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZS1dlesR3D9PnQjBm82-mQHA_chdNqhvqF5j1YE7Tb49-qoEQmHTiMnjUHfpWZeAbn2ZKCKrM4IZ7osKYEganDLzxET6DI-on6Rofpa0s_amjO5I5aKnvzhrpU2ADbMHN8SSHW-cz/s320/Night+Howler+1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 210px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Night Howler</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> Detail. (1996)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Carl Landsberg Collection</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1QsZgiFfwlky-V9P3Eb_I1j4NBr7kn925i0GW8jaUFA7n2COwSXNX6xOcuFrec9_6QJcfaosX_oABeUDcEAF65P_NG-f9UJQvnCYNH9Dg6k8XSiBG4CXb6p5zVQRSDJsiIgK-6Qig/s1600-h/Night+Howler+complete+w.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297421930076594802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1QsZgiFfwlky-V9P3Eb_I1j4NBr7kn925i0GW8jaUFA7n2COwSXNX6xOcuFrec9_6QJcfaosX_oABeUDcEAF65P_NG-f9UJQvnCYNH9Dg6k8XSiBG4CXb6p5zVQRSDJsiIgK-6Qig/s320/Night+Howler+complete+w.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 244px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #993399;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Night Howler</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> (1996)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Carl Landsberg Collection</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">. Hand built in porcelain with black under glaze painting. </span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHWuLy5S9G1XjAXco1txSXuaOFB0PED61A5-RcEz-lfKZBdWWJtZLczOGN1pgEQOhuvcQ3XrtjuuylHoKOpREjqLFCOg_gnhx3jmFR7ywPQchez-kAsISZ45KfKpxEJox7es7vzsoe/s1600-h/The+Swine.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297421319569968322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHWuLy5S9G1XjAXco1txSXuaOFB0PED61A5-RcEz-lfKZBdWWJtZLczOGN1pgEQOhuvcQ3XrtjuuylHoKOpREjqLFCOg_gnhx3jmFR7ywPQchez-kAsISZ45KfKpxEJox7es7vzsoe/s320/The+Swine.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 267px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #993399; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #993399; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #993399; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial;"><b>The Swine, Collection Carl Landsberg, Handbuilt porcelain.</b></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_Jee4HsD8pAEZr71krqeofX-_8v1jZqgbgYoVKLlM4xPbtbpfayFRUUjJl1w8ztJPA3-enVucvTWIoEmNxSMdOwKZs2cjQT-Z-RpAGeLBb3D_sphRVNCG5iVhWA2fbNkOG1yRBQS/s1600-h/Mother+of+Prostitutes.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297418083867724962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_Jee4HsD8pAEZr71krqeofX-_8v1jZqgbgYoVKLlM4xPbtbpfayFRUUjJl1w8ztJPA3-enVucvTWIoEmNxSMdOwKZs2cjQT-Z-RpAGeLBb3D_sphRVNCG5iVhWA2fbNkOG1yRBQS/s320/Mother+of+Prostitutes.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 232px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #993399;"><br /><a href="http://bible.cc/revelation/17-5.htm"></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bible.cc/revelation/17-5.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mother of Prostitutes</span></a><a href="http://bible.cc/revelation/17-5.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">(1985) </span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Private collection</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Press moulded terracotta sculpture. This particular sculpture represents </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">the epitome of </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">greed,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">lust</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> and power</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">. The main figure is mother earth exploited. The lustful creatures are her offspring. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">They rape, burn and devour her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">. The tail is the counterpart of masculine supremacy. </span></span></span></div>

BIG SHOTS. RAW WAR RAW WOE MAN

Big Shots, (2008). Copies of ballpoint pen drawings, preparatory studies for a ceramic sculpture. Writer Margie Orford sees contact crime...

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Celebrating Pansies

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2EIOPIIzqE_Id8OdgaXaNN7UOnHW1ptvCDsQKZZZt8KT__RJV3vpx30cEJwqgFRbm4PgCF6cTI8WMyTYl23o0zs7LwtitYR9uFgQVLTnEBAuEfzc4d8iMAvlRHHV9CgjFbeH117Kz/s1600-h/Platter+complere+trad.+W.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291839765698725810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2EIOPIIzqE_Id8OdgaXaNN7UOnHW1ptvCDsQKZZZt8KT__RJV3vpx30cEJwqgFRbm4PgCF6cTI8WMyTYl23o0zs7LwtitYR9uFgQVLTnEBAuEfzc4d8iMAvlRHHV9CgjFbeH117Kz/s320/Platter+complere+trad.+W.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 245px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>My latest works, currently on view at <a href="http://www.artspace-jhb.co.za/news_current.html">ArtSpace</a>, until the end of the month. The ceramic platters with decals (shown here) forms part of an exhbition entitled Oppitafel (on the table). Below is a detail of one of the platters.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2zeo0NVc7c0e_KzD-POiNlFmLkm2iybSbg0304E0gT_CiAZatO8dogj4ySg-_EIpV_bRqZ2UIx0fnvs64qJLYhlJ_gHIS3ebE-__5cGiqvOz2TQOkSeEpnw24J2LfHwx61MsO9d12/s1600-h/Platter+trad+islam+pope+detail.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291838806507204034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2zeo0NVc7c0e_KzD-POiNlFmLkm2iybSbg0304E0gT_CiAZatO8dogj4ySg-_EIpV_bRqZ2UIx0fnvs64qJLYhlJ_gHIS3ebE-__5cGiqvOz2TQOkSeEpnw24J2LfHwx61MsO9d12/s320/Platter+trad+islam+pope+detail.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>

Celebrating Pansies

My latest works, currently on view at ArtSpace , until the end of the month. The ceramic platters with decals (shown here) forms part of an ...

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