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this website is an exhibition site for lots of things i have been fascinated with over the last 15 years. i have designed it to have layers that are revealed by using ctrl + or - on your keyboard or with a finger pinch on a mobile screen. zoom in or pull away as far as your screen will allow. blow up the works or reduce them in size. you have the freedom to mold the screen to how you want to view the work.

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when i was small, growing up in south africa, we were taken by our parents to the mountains for our family holiday. to an area covered in rock art. i can remember the feeling i had when looking at the paintings. of being captivated, transported out of the here and now.

''slowly time and the awareness of where i am returns. like waking up again. it is as if i have crossed over into the imagination of whoever created the painting and on my return to myself, i will bring part of their imagination with me.

and they make me see the world different.'

alistair ogilvie

Cape Town 2021

Have you ever looked into a mirror and seen within your pupil, your face

shrunken to fit within.

outside in

inside out

and my pupil seems the black colour of space

the perfect generator

of colour mirror'd

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gouache on paper

29.7cm x 42cm

In the Jones house

(can 稚!/can't!)

BBC radio announces the first cloned persons acceptance

(says WHO?)

into the priesthood. While the Pope

(says ME!)

stated, “created souls are equal and sacred”

(Can too! / Cannot! )

the Jones kids

(CAN!! /CANNOT!!)

argued if humans could fly to the sun.

i have not trained or studied in an art college. however no one who painted on those rocks or in other caves and rock shelters around our world did. if your sense of space and time has been shifted by viewing a painting then something wonderfully important has taken place and that does not have to happen within a gallery or museum.

gouache on paper

29.7cm x 42cm

50word
story

ghost portrait series

kamieskroon 2014

woman looking down on me

in the southern hemisphere,

just after the night begins,

as the milky way turns out of the earth

and the stars appear.

for a brief moment you see

a woman looking down on you

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me at 5yrs old, cape town

Have you ever looked into a mirror and seen within your pupil, your face

shrunken to fit within.

outside in

inside out

and my pupil seems the black colour of space

the perfect generator

of colour mirror'd

Viktor Lowenfeld believed in artistic stages of development that we all pass through as children. we start, not aware that we hold a crayon in our hands, making any sort of motion that may mark a page. and slowly you begin to realise that you are making the mark. overtime you may even call a scribble a portrait of your mother or father. you advance to greater control, geometrical shapes for a nose, say a triangle. or an oval shape for eyes.

we all do this

stick figures of siblings will be drawn perhaps. yet our figures will float in the air. un-tethered from any connection to the world. you may add a floating house or tree. simple outline drawings but all shows your awareness to objects in the world around you.

we all do this

but it is not only objects you draw. you will also draw sensations. you may eat pizza , the enjoyment so overwhelming that you will draw an extra big mouth to highlight the taste. or big feet that ran across dew on grass. a child's way of expressing how you felt.

we all do this

and then something curious happens. we begin to place objects into order of size and in relation to how you see them. trees will dwarf houses. houses placed long the bottom of the page. the base line , a starting line realised and your family may be drawn out front to show who lives in your world.

and your world no longer floats but is tethered to the ground. as you are.

we all do this

the last thing that happens, just before or around puberty, is to draw a horison line to indicate the far distance. you can see the scope of your world out to the horison. we all begin unaware that we hold a crayon and end by seeing out to the horison line.

we all do this.

no matter your nationality, your race, your gender or any of the markers we place on ourselves,all humans follow this development of how we explore and learn and understand the space around us.

and i think of that a lot about this cycle. from sitting within ourselves until we see the far horison. i wonder if life is the understanding of ourselves within the space we explore and that what begins by us pushing out to the horison ends by the horison slowly returning to us.

In the Jones house

(can 稚!/can't!)

BBC radio announces the first cloned persons acceptance

(says WHO?)

into the priesthood. While the Pope

(says ME!)

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In 2013 I broke my arm. once healed i got a job in a hospital as a radiology porter. as i was on my feet all day transporting patients , i decided to sit in a local park for my lunch hour. I then started to sketch, just sitting and practising line work. never had done anything like this before but decided to try