COCKATOOTWO

Detail.

SOLD!

To my friends Katherine and Kyle, who will be entering the exciting world of home renovation soon. Right across the street.

COCKATOO

in progress. Detail.

NOMAD GNOME

Two years ago the gnome arrived from Port Elizabeth. We appreciate all the gardening help we can get in Ysterplaat. Artichokes appear to be in no need of gnomes.

TALKING ABOUT MARKETS

Sway Textiles exhibited clothing at Kamersvol Geskenke at Lourensford in Somerset West recently. In Tent B. All signage was effectively co-ordinated. There will be a second event this year, at the end of November, in Irene. Sway will travel up for the occasion.

ITEMS I BOUGHT

at Milnerton market this morning. A doll, made in China, a pocket size book on the work of Raul Dufy, a Mexican-themed, poppies and all, round tray , a bag of garlic from Philippi, and a plastic hand grenade. Empty, and by the looks of it, a perfume container or a toy. Raul Dufy was a fabulous painter, and also a textile designer of note. Like most art history texts, this little book focuses on his drawing and painting and mentions his textiles only in passing, but in the world of textiles, they are revered as SEMINAL Art Deco designs. My ongoing quest to find a really nice book on Dufy remains ongoing. The garlic from Philippi I plan to plant in the garden, aiming for a really potent harvest for a long time to come. I recently saw in a newspaper article that about 70% of Cape Town's fresh produce comes from Philippi, a large and fertile section of the Cape Flats. I sure hope the farmers can keep it up, as there is a lot of pressure from developers on the one hand and informal settlements on the other, and everything else on the third hand. No easy task. The enamel bread bin is another Milnerton Market find. Cape Town has plenty markets, but none other like Milnerton Market, which, it appears, is in fact situated in Paarden Island. This is where trendy furtively meets zef, early on Sunday mornings. No, seriously now: several extremely fashionable shops in the haute parts of town regard Milnerton Market as their best-kept secret despite its being featured in a lavishly illustrated article in the current Kulula in-flight magazine. Secrets are amazing things.

GAUTENG ZEF

My friends Buks and Daleen came to visit Ysterplaat, around the same time that Die Antwoord's video 'Zefside' received some kind of prize or other, and was projected onto the outside walls of the Guggenheim in New York. The Guggenheim in New York. You may remember that 'Zefside' was shot right here in Ysterplaat, shooting Die Antwoord to fame. So we did our own authentic zef shoot.

IN FRANSCHHOEK

'Relief' by Sarel Petrus, and a view of IS Art Gallery at Le Quartier Francais, showing Sarel's 'Falling feathers' and 'Relief', some gallery visitors and some frolicking bronze hares by Guy du Toit. 'Relief' combines a bronze replica of the head of an antelope roadkill with a wooden reproduction of its body as it lay smashed by the roadside. The wood surrounding the antelope (perhaps a grysbok, an oribi or a springbok) is perforated like a postage stamp. 'Falling feathers' are bronze casts of vulture feathers. Sarel works with Guy (who kept his hat on while chatting to the gallery curator) in his studio on a smallholding east of Pretoria.

LILY POND

This is part of a proof print for the pond textile design, which has now been put onto screen at about 70% of the original size. It works as a 'toile' design, but I still would like to develop it as a placement too. Perhaps because I am ever so slightly disappointed by the reduction in size (inevitable, to fit onto the printer's screen). Oh well.