November 2007 Archives

Linked to the notion of sacred space is an acknowledgement of rights/rites...

the right of native life forms

and the rites of passage as a native life form.

My recent review of the fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood, provided a format for the translation of the wolf

into the South African "lycaon pictus", the painted wolf, or African wild dog. The forest became the alien trees that

 make up the canopy of Johannesburg cityscape. Both are condemned to extinction.

Dealing with the notion of sacred space and reciprocity

I have positioned my concept of the sacred within the nature of the land... creating a "cathedra natura" ... in celebration of the indigenous and alien life forms. This visual articulation of a "cathedra natura" enters the debate of the indigenous versus the exotic, which is a determined agenda in the government policies of land and water management in the new South Africa.