My mother summed things up quite succinctly recently: ‘I just can’t believe my feminist, academic daughter is making jewellery for models to wear at Fashion Week!’. To be honest, neither can I. But here’s the thing, Cape Town, and indeed South Africa, is a place swimming in such creativity, vitality, contrast and beauty, that if there is a creative bone in your body, it will come to the fore when you live here. So here’s my tip, if you’re not sure whether or not you want to work in the creative field, come to Cape Town, it’s a pretty good litmus test. Perhaps that’s why Cape Town has been nominated to be World Design Capital in 2014. I really hope we get it.
Floating my boat at the moment is Nomfusi’s gorgeous sound and visual aesthetic. Here she is:
And here’s her SAMA nominated video:
I’m off to the Easter Market at the Freeworld Design Centre tomorrow. See some of you there?! Happy weekend.
Ok, so I didn’t say anything because I was really nervous. This was such a big deal. But we pulled it off, so now I’m going to shout from the rooftops.
Its funny how the things that visually influence you as an artist change over time. Increasingly music, in particular music videos and live music performances, are the thing that I look to. This video, that I found via myweku is just so utterly glorious.
What I’m starting to understand, especially with the help of Dr Lesley Green, is how alternative geometries and mathematics can be an innately understood and enacted practice, rather than an explicit, studied, intentional understanding. There is a sense of rhythm and movement which starts within and finds expression in the patterns, shapes and textures of our beadwork. Music and the imagery around music often helps to bring that out.
Anyway, enough of my blethering! Enjoy the video :-)
