Shadows are mind bending, flexible and unrestricted by the confines of the human form. They stretch and elongate and turn corners where the host body cannot reach. A shadow can start as a human and morph into something four legged or maybe five, or a single cell amoeba with finger like projections.

For this exhibition, I return to a place I call The Yellow Rock Fort, situated in the zone of rock and sand between the South Atlantic Ocean and the Cape Peninsula. Here plover nests are built, and chicks are valiantly protected. Blombos holds the shifting shore and spring daisies blanket the ground. The effort of living and nurturing is temporarily put on hold when the seas are big, bringing heavy waters rolling into and over the rocks and sand and nests and green shoots, so that the green shoots lie flat against the sand and plover chicks are lost. With this surge, kelp is uprooted; long stems dumped into the space in tangled clumps of arms and legs. At first slippery and wet and then hard and brittle as they dry. Then once again the green shoots raise their heads, and the plovers remake their nests. This is a space of tension between harsh reality and tenacious life. And into this space a shadow comes to play.

I have used this real place as a setting for an imaginary theatre where the shadow takes a leading role in a performative presentation of narrative and ritual. The shadow is mine; it draws on the marks etched into the surfaces of the rock and the unvoiced thoughts of the self, the dark parts that come with the light.

Please join us at 196 Victoria Road, Woodstock, for a celebration of the end of another round of Sessions for Visual Artists, and have a look at my woodcuts, small hand carved sculptures and some other expected work.

If you aren't able to visit, please access the Waypoint Exhibition Catalogue here. Let me know if you'd like to see the Pricelist.

The exhibition runs for one week only 21-28 October and apart from the Opening, I will also be in the Gallery on Wednesday 22 October from 10am - 2pm.  Hope to see you.