BRIDGES … A MEANS OF CONNECTING
Bridges … a connector for people, traffic, neighbourhoods. They are often architecturally challenging, visually striking, or enshrouded by urban legend. (Sometimes they combine all three.) Take the Ponte Luís I […]
Entries by Mariëlle Renssen
GRAFFITI OR MURAL ART?
The word graffiti has its origins in both Greek and Italian. Graphein is Greek for “scratch”, “carve” or “write” while graffiato in Italian means “scratched”. Although there have been different forms of graffiti (before […]
MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES, SINGULAR BEAUTY
Stripes, layers, stacked textures … these striking sculptures by different artists appear to use the same techniques but in fact they’re highly divergent. For one there’s Japanese-American artist Jun Kaneko’s […]
OUR SHOES WILL LEAD US
What COVID-19 has done to all of us, with no discrimination whatsoever since every single one of us is feeling it, no exceptions, is create a loss of any sense […]
PARADYS (KLOOF) THROUGH THE EYES OF DYLAN LEWIS
Overwhelming. Awesome. World class. These are all words that describe South African sculptor Dylan Lewis’s sculpture garden on Mulberry Farm in Paradyskloof (a very apt name, that!), Stellenbosch. The artist […]
A DIFFERENT FACE OF PICASSO
I have been fortunate, during the course of our travels, to have seen many different exhibitions of Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th […]
MAPUNGUBWE – DIE “HEUWEL VAN DIE JAKKALS”
Wintertyd is Bosveld-tyd met die lang pad Noorde toe. Daar waar die hardekoolvuurtjie jou vleisie beslis anders laat smaak. Mapungubwe Nasionale Park, digby Musina, wag ons (normaalweg) gereeld in wintertyd […]
THE ART OF CERAMICS
Earlier this year (when we lived a different life, we travelled to distant lands, and the word COVID-19 had hardly found a place in the world’s vocabulary), I was in […]
WINDOWS ON THE WORLD
In South Africa, we’re into our fourth month of lockdown. It struck me one morning, just before we were granted the freedom of a few hours every day to go […]
Blown away by Guggenheim Bilbao
The city of Bilbao sits at the northern edge of Spain where Basque country attaches itself to southwestern France. It wasn’t too long ago that Bilbao exported iron ore; it […]
Winter Warmers: DIY Rice Heat Packs & Hand WarmersJune 1, 2025 - 8:27 amin: Lifestyle, Uncategorized