Nelson’s Column
Originally based on the Helepolis – a Greek siege machine of war, and later structurally researched on the oppressive apartheid observation structures.
Cape Town Based Artist
Originally based on the Helepolis – a Greek siege machine of war, and later structurally researched on the oppressive apartheid observation structures.
Being a head boy in the very last privileged ‘whites only’ matriculation year (1990) and now, two decades later, finally closing in on my earlier ambitions to become a high school art teacher in democratic South Africa, this work reflects notions of ‘acceptable’ past behavior and history according to those who wrote it – predominantly the victor…