spent the day painting in langa with zola and a french boy seth... i knew i should have been at the studio dealing with some pressing work... but life is for living and we cannot spend to much time in doors... sharp....

after the show in brussels inge wanted to rework the intro a bit... so here we go.. the final version of epitaph is loaded onto our vimeo account...

its different to the other two video.. i wanted to do something softer, exploring spaces lost... entering through sounds and revealing the echoes of empty rooms... finding love in flakes of paint, swollen curves and fragile lines... a story hidden in the flat colors broken apart by memories, dust, wood and steel... something like that.. we worked closely together on it.. it was an interesting and tough process and we learnt a few things on the way...

inge and rowan and both amazing artists and im humbled by their perspectives and intuition...

one of cape towns finest artists/illustrators in my opinion...
jordan metcalf previously known as sadmascot graces your eyes with a sadness and a stillness... a feeling of quite knowingness...
see his work on behance
and also flickr...

ive been hiding out in my studio cave for days and nights on end... and its making me into a bit of an internet geek... but something good came out of it... i stumbled across this website... the dead revolutionaries club....
they are refreshingly political and im liking the attitude very much... heating things up a little..... you should give it a read....im looking forward to seeing volume two....

and i quote:
"When we started thinking about this webzine there was a pervasive sense amongst a number of people that I was working with that there is a certain lie that is perpetuated in the art world and, that in our various interactions with that world, we were being asked to conspire with that lie.

The lie manifests itself in different forms. One of the forms that it takes is this idea that there is something inherently progressive about contemporary art. In the context of many Third World countries and South Africa (from where we speak) is no exception, what this often means is that the only way to stake a claim on the international art world is to commodify difference while professing progressive politics."

Koto Bolofo's first monograph documents a young talented South African sculptor forced to flee his rural home by building a full-sized, hand-built metal helicopter .... beautiful book and such beautiful pictures.. you can page through it here....

Baudouin Mouanda works as a photojournalist for several newspapers in Congo Brazzaville. Much of his work focuses on documenting urban Congo.
you can see a slide show of his work on this great photography site the blacksnapper

hmmmmm...... so my friend micheal saal has done an interview... a very rare occurrence indeed ... and a beautiful thing to see... for those of you lucky enough to be reading this consider this your fortunate day for if you follow my link you will be inspired by this mysterious boy man creature who is incredibly talented in the art of art as well as thinking and living.... i love him muchly and he knows this i am sure...

see the interview on the goodness greatness blog

perhaps the wave of support for zuma is partially a sad cry of longing for the demands of the freedom charter... and the acknowledgment of how it was disregarded in the mbeki era... not to say that zuma would be able to bring it back to life... but the people know that their demands have been ignored...

so its just come as a surprise to me to see the notorious TOE007 on flickr...
most people dont know anything about the south african graffiti scene...
well if youd like to - a good point to start at it would be this guy- hitting it hard and consistently for the longest time... hardest spots and most dangerous train yards.. with undying motivation to do more more more... true graffiti artist ... much respect!

these are two works that i produced for the artmosh show in paris on the 26th of november...

'mama forgive your sinning daughter'
and
'what a woman wants god wants'
oil, silverleaf and graphite on wood with engraved veneer borders..

these are sisters born of russian prison tattoos, vengance love and nature...

the night of a thousand drawings is a great initiative to use art as a way to raise money for charities..
word of art pulled of the cape town leg of the event at the woodstock industrial center with great dedication...
alongside 4000 artworks the building was packed with good people, energy and great music...
the doodle battle was really quite something... with bison taking the winning place and my very own cashril plus coming second place...***** sharp sharp.....

see more pics of the event on word of arts website...

Zanele Muholi's work explores female identity... female sexuality... presenting us with images strong and direct... were so oversaturated in stereotypes... these individuals invert the script for us and come as a breath of fresh air.. thank you...

my first entry on this blog ever included a man called tyler b murphy...
well today we return to the subject and to Tyler B Murphy's sins of style tattoo parlor...
a place in cape town where you can feel at home and get a richly finished custom tattoo....
these boys dont fuck around.. view their portfolios of the three amigos.. mr tyler murphy, lee herbert and dave chaston on the sins of style website

photo by alexia webster...

here is a show in new york that i will have some work in....
THE GENERATIONS
THE SHOWROOM GALLERY – NYC
3rd DECEMBER 2009
Cope2 presents a group show featuring taki 183, stayhigh149, comet, duster, serve, ban2, cap, henry chalfant, marka27, bates, swet, tloks, tko,klor, minone, cope2, delta2, os gemeos, scien, okuda, sen2, risk msk awr, ewok nyc, t-kid 170, queen andrea, indie 184, tilt, mist, krink, pulse, mark bode, faith 47, jamel shabazz, kacao 77, denz, reso, martha cooper