Category: Articles

HOLIDAY FUN WITH DIY TIE-DYE!

Tie-dye your very own T-shirt, beach towel, hat, beach bag, mask or even fabric sneakers. You can buy complete Tie-dye kits – enquire at your nearest craft shop: Choose your design and dye colours. There are many inspirational design…

GEEN WYN VIR ’N WEEK NIE

My pa het altyd gesê ’n mens praat nie oor politiek en godsdiens nie, maar hier gaan ons … Mitologie en religie bestaan al van die begin van tye af. Dit is ’n manier om die begin van die mensdom, die plek wat die mens in die heelal…

GET CREATIVE!

If the cold weather, children’s holidays and lockdown have left you stuck at home looking for something interesting to do, why not upgrade something in your home to give it new life? It’s bound to cheer you up and leave you feeling mentally…

THE ART OF WRITING

After a recent article on the development of agriculture in the ancient civilizations, someone asked me where I got all this information. “Do you Google it?” Since early childhood I liked words – in actual printed books – with pages…

SCULPTING THE HUMAN BODY … WITH BICYCLE CHAINS!

South Korean artist Young-Deok Seo uses the unlikely material of bicycle chains as a way to craft realistic sculptures of the human body. For years, we’ve marveled over his figurative artwork, some of it life-sized and others larger than life,…

GOOD PHOTOS OF THE MOON

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When a full moon rises, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get a worthy photo, but unfortunately the moon is a really challenging subject to photograph. Two reasons: it is very far away and unless you have a telephoto…

AGRICULTURE – HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN AROUND?

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Recently the Western Cape Minister of Agriculture visited the Mossel Bay District to meet with the Western Cape Women’s Agricultural Organization, whom he calls “the backbone of the agricultural sector”. With agriculture still very much…

BRIDGES … A MEANS OF CONNECTING

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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 in Porto, Portugal, for example.…

GRAFFITI OR MURAL ART?

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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 it…

MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES, SINGULAR BEAUTY

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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 six-foot-tall head sculpture,…

OUR SHOES WILL LEAD US

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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 of direction. The virus has put us in a holding pattern, particularly with the second…

PARADYS (KLOOF) THROUGH THE EYES OF DYLAN LEWIS

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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 started the garden himself way…