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Digging Up An Ancestor: Clay As Limbs Unformed, As Archive, As Sacrament

The potter-god and the creation of breathing clay is a story repeated in many tongues, many times over. The Abrahamic God, the Yoruba spirit, Obatala, the Greek Prometheus, the Egyptian deity, Khnum, and on and on were all the first potters of the human body, adding breath and blood and water to the clay.

Heartbreak & Perfectionism in Creative Practice

When it doesn’t have to arrive or resolve, and when the heartbreak of the unresolvable thing can be thought about without having to be fixed, ‘perfectionism’ in creative practice can somehow be used to exceed or undo itself.

Ten Ways to Think About Art Books

Surviving a collision of ‘text’ and ‘object’ identities – somehow existing as neither and both – art books are interesting because we don’t quite know what they are, and so we can think about them in as many ways as we like.

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In the pursuit of sculptural forme within contemporary South African art, whilst celebrating a richer written form to accompany it – becoming in itself, Art Form. © ART FORMES

Other Musings

Digging Up An Ancestor: Clay As Limbs Unformed, As Archive, As Sacrament

Heartbreak & Perfectionism in Creative Practice

Ten Ways to Think About Art Books

In the pursuit of sculptural forme within contemporary South African art, whilst celebrating a richer written form to accompany it – becoming in itself, Art Form. © ART FORMES

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