The emotional storm I experienced while watching my terminally ill mother deteriorate at my home in her last months was often overwhelming, so I suppressed my emotions by plunging into the daily job of nursing her. I became good at doing without feeling. As the months progressed my physical reserves dwindled and waves of frustration …
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Love in Bits and Pieces
This series of artworks formed part of my body of work that I made during my artist residency in Berlin 2009 funded by ‘p-art-ners Berlin-Windhoek’. I was heavily influenced by the stained sculptures adorning old european architecture with regards to mood and weathering. This was an attempt to make sense of dark emotions brought up …