some days i pine for calm... other days i stretch out my violent love for time in condensed moments of anxious space...
maybe what happens in my absence is life and a reason that validates my breathing is
color and paint and emotion and i hope
that expressions and thoughts and feelings transferred by images may suffice
to untangle age and make concepts of beauty invisible except for their sound.
living in the south stapled to the heart of stone that is south africa.
hanging from my heart with ribbons are the images ive seen here.
my throat is scratched and my heart is heavy
and if only you knew...
what its like in your absence
my drawings are my hibernation with days and nights intermixed in excitement.
a lock down on a reason to live...
iron looks in hard ghetto spaces. suburban bliss meandering through ignorance... dream clouds moving over questions...
that we may live knowing songs of ageless parables until we get old.
for now. that is all.....

these two pics are from my 'home' series..
you can see the rest of the series on my website - under the wheatpaste section..... sharp sharp*

ive never seen the calm before the storm see so nervous...

the black heart gang steal the show hands down.. this is the tale of how....
see their website....

this oil on wood triptych with laser engraved borders was destined for a show at the thinkspace gallery in los angeles... its lost at sea and may never return...
its titled 'the wheel of fortune' and fate has it that it is sadly lost in the corner of an unknown room in a disappeared space between africa and america for until who knows when... its been hard to say goodbye as i spent allot of love and time on it... may you rest in peace oh my wheel of fortune....

my good friend alexia webster took this most beautiful photo recently in ghana...
its a mural on the side of a residential house in a small side street
in the middle of Mamobi, a big maze like neighborhood or 'slum' in
Accra, Ghana...
you can see more of her work on her blogspot

asha's show is solid... meticulously focused and beautiful.... so much time goes into each artwork... hes got his finger on the pulse of whats hot right now - mixing street with fine art... and his recipe works...
just to note- the works are all handpainted...
hes selling really well.. south africa needs to wake up to the fact that hes ahead of the pack ...
you can see the preview of his show 'macro soda text hits' on 34 long galleries webpage....

another pic from alexia webster from her ghana trip.. this is just too mad....

look now who holds thee?

this is the trailer for a documentary about thomas sinkara....
i would like to see the full documentary... it looks full of devastating and also enlightening information about this man... a voice that needs to be heard.....
looks like you can order the documentary here....

last night i went to the black heart gangs launch of 'the tale of how' book... beautifully presented and wonderful to hold to read and see the story unfold... see their website to order....

ill be off to germany on wednesday for rik reinking's ARTotale project....

and then ill be going to brussels to do an art installation and video presentation at mr ego...
ill be presenting out third video piece called epitaph which ive been working on with rowan pybus and inge beckmann...