How the text works started

At one of my  2nd year BVA crit sessions in 2007 I had masses of work. My father had passed away and our family farm had been lost in a land claim. My foundations had been viciously shaken and so I was obsessively working with loss, the ghosts of the past and memories.

One of our lecturers was Frikkie Eksteen , an artist whom I find tremendously inspiring. The one thing he found most interesting about my entire presentation was a tiny (accidental) stain on one of the photographs in my workbook! After my initial shock I decided to look for ways to explore this stain - possibly as a 'ghost' in other works. The result was Kraakbeeld (2007).

Kraakbeeld (2007).

I had no use for this image other than as an addition to other digital work, but the image did have a strange beauty which continued to intrigue me. I had previously used text in my art, and decided to interpret the image in text as an experiment. This resulted in Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight (2008). 

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditaion of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight (2008)

The work received the 'Art on Paper Merit Award' at the Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards 2009, and was selected by Ms Elfriede Dreyer for the Me3 exhibition at Fried Contemporary in 2012. It was also included in the Me. Ek exhibition she curated for the 2013 KKNK. 

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditaion of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight (2008). Detail.

The physical typing of each word is extremely time-consuming, and the digital files are enormous. Yet this allows me to explore minute detail in a variety of scales impossible to achieve by hand, and I am constantly challenged to find out how far I can push this - I am truly hooked.