dog days
“These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.” Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
The dog is an autobiographical character that appears in these artworks as the narrator of my own BIG feelings. Quietly resilient (just like the paper that I cut her into) my dog represents all the things that life has taught me to be. It’s hard to unteach an old dog old tricks. Things boil and simmer. Mistakes are made. Lines are drawn. Words are said. Chaos is contained within a crisply cut outline of paper.
It is the start of another hot, ever dawning, glory gobbling day.
wild
sliced paper in 5 layers, with water colour pencil and wood glue
2024
52 cm high x 40 cm wide x 3cm deep
SOLD to private collector
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I think of you
sliced paper in 4 layers, with coloured ink, water colour pencil and wood glue
2023
51 cm high x 39 cm wide x 3cm deep
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into the mountains
sliced and punched paper in 4 layers, with watercolour pencil scribble and wood glue
2022
46 cm high x 66 cm wide x 3cm deep
Price : R 7 500-00 (framed)
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I’ve dug up the things that I need
sliced and scratched coloured paper in 2 layers and wood glue
2022
51 cm high x 39 cm wide x 3cm deep
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my glitter wings could not save me from the mangrove swamp
sliced coloured paper in 3 layers and wood glue
2022
40 cm high x 52 cm wide x 3cm deep
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sliced coloured paper in 5 layers and wood glue
2022
40 cm high x 52 cm wide x 3cm deep
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bunsen bully beware I bounce
sliced, punched and layered paper, watercolour pencil and wood glue
2021
23 cm h x 29 cm w x 3 cm d
Price : R 2 500-00 (framed)
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if it makes sense in my head
sliced, punched and layered paper with wood glue
2021
23 cm h x 29 cm w x 4cm d (framed)
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I fell so hard that the ground will remain inside my body for the rest of my life!
sliced, punched, folded and layered paper, watercolour pencil and wood glue
2021
21 cm h x 30 cm w x 3cm d (framed)
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I can see the holes in your rhetoric
sliced and layered coloured paper and wood glue
2018
34 cm h x 25 cm w x 5 cm d
SOLD to private collector
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obedient
water colour soaked and spattered paper, cut into strips and layered with wood glue
2019
28 cm h x 37 cm w x 4 cm d
Price : R 2 000-00 (framed)
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