i really loved the feeling of julia rosa clarks solo show...
it lingered strongly on me as i left the gallery and for the rest of the day...

for those of you in cape town there is a walk about on the 06 and 13th.
her work explores our intricate and fraught relationship with Nature, the sensations and mysteries of chemistry, perception and color as they relate to the search for fulfillment through science, alchemy, theater-craft and art making...

read more about julia rosa clark and about this exhibition on the whatiftheworld gallerys website.

i read this interesting article in the mail and guardian.
it talks about how our south african minister - Lulu Xingwana had been due to speak at the opening of a show by young black women artists at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg.

But instead of speaking walked out of the show.

Zanele Muholis images of naked women explore lesbianism and sexuality in a society where it is very difficult to speak about these things.

Lulu states - Our mandate is to promote social cohesion and nation building. I left the exhibition because it expressed the very opposite of this. It was immoral, offensive and going against nation-building.

i wander what kind of nation she is thinking of building if we cannot embrace peoples sexuality... a core issue of individual identity..

this track ' sweet' from JAAK is great...
hip hop from the cape flats is well established and ingrained into its youth culture...
this video is smooth.. simple but with beautiful moments reflecting the everyday life and feelings of life in the kaapse fletse...
sharp...*

ive got to say i love love love this illustration by louis minaar
for the new album - skop skiet en donner by van coke cartel...

alex showed me the puma sutra pamphlet for pumas love equals soccer campaign..
he asked me - whats missing in all the pictures...

her face of course...
id like to have been in that design meeting when they were discussing why the female should have no identity...

which reminded me of this website a little... stop human trafficing
of course not as extreme... but symbolic of an overall mindset that allows for such small but largly symbolic gestures in the media to go unnoticed.

OH DAMN! there is a documentary coming out about the legendary prophets of the city...
THIS i cant wait to see! so glad its been done... so people can remember not to forget...

this illustration from tyler b murphy shows off his exquisite style...
a t-shirt collaboration with killer clothing
tyler runs the sins of style tattoo parlor in cape town..
for richly finished tattoos...
the finest...

here is an extract from Samora Chapmans article on how the street kids in durban are being swept away...

Everyday for the past 6 months, the Durban Metro Police have been rounding up street children, often beating them, and throwing them in the back of vans. According to Tom Hewitt, founder and CEO of the street childrens organization Umthombo, children are being harassed, beaten and pepper sprayed in these ruthless round-up operations. The kids are then driven out of the city as far as the department’s petrol tab allows and ditched outside Pietermaritzburg or down the South Coast. Alternatively they get dumped at “homeless shelters” where they have to share space, unsupervised, with a frightening mix of street dwellers and gangsters. Here they are often subjected to further abuse or coerced into crime. The citys by-laws against loitering are used as vague justification for these roundups.

read the rest of the article on the mahala website

our friends say its darkest before the sun rises... were pretty sure their all wrong..

chimurenga magazine is fearless and deeply african...
based in cape town they bring a breath of the continent to our complex shores...
with 15 issues under the belt and projects like the pan african space station they have well established themselves as a voice to be recognized and heard...
do yourself a favor and order some back issues or read some of chimurenga online...
for those who no know go know....

ive just returned from a show at the goodman gallery by mikhael subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse
The work is located in Bereas Ponte City building, an iconic structure in Johannesburgs skyline that has come to represent the best and the worst of Johannesburg, and has generated a particular mythology of city life.

Subotzky and Waterhouse combine photography, historical archives, found objects, and interviews to create a body of work that i personally fell in love with..

its important to explore the inner workings of our cities... to show whats behind walls and inside enigmatic broken structures... all of michaels work does this..
see more of his work and past projects here...

this kulula add by king james was pulled after complaints from fifa... whose strict rules on advertising around the world cup leave many local traders empty handed...
you can see the high res version here- take a look its pretty funny..

king james then put out this add in its place ...

seems like fifa doesnt like our south african sense... of humor...

i am not religious...
but i pray through my work to unknown devils and gods.
i look for my soul in color
and empty my being through parables of rusted lost metal doors...