Naaldekoker

see from my canoe -

blue chase green, mating mid-air,

 red mud on my shoes

MariPete

Birds

An installation featuring gold and silver bird pendants and metallic prints.

The prints are done on pages from Jane Eyre.

a golden bird with red (sanguine) cotton...

Bird

..........

As he shows how he shaped

between finger and thumb

this small gold bird

leaving lines on its wings, I say,

did you know that our fingerprints

fade as we age – they cross over first?

Mari Pete

Silver birds morphing into fleur-de-lis type coupling devices... you know, the little bits that hold the bigger bits together... all displayed on logarithmic tables.



Glossary

We felt that it was necessary to include a Glossary to explain some of the concepts that influence our work. That is it on the right...

 and here is a close-up.

These terms (that are too small to see properly here, but click on the pic for a better view) will be explained as we go along...

The terms are, in alphabetic order: bird, cameo, charge, couple, cross potent, crusader cross, decoration, fleur-de-lis/lus/libido, kiepersol, naaldekoker, pattern, sanguine, sine, sinister, subjection, tangent...

Panorama

For a better view of the exhibtion browse the photosynth below...

Kiepersol

The voluptuous leaves of this cabbage tree growing next to our verandah struck a chord in us and served as reference (or inspiration, as some would have it) for quite a few artworks...

a print...

the texture on a frame...

... enamelled pendants

silver pendants...

and as 'conversations'...

KZNSA exhibition...

So it is done and over... now begins the work. There is so much that I realise now, in hindsight... and I'll work my way through all these realisations and learn from them... I think there were too many varying aspects... anyway ... Here is a panoramic view of the show.

Panorama

A panoramic view of this exhibiton is available.