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This painting forms part of a series of four paintings of the same title, the remaining three numbered (7), (9) and (10). The composition holds what seems at first glance to resemble a stack of rocks or boulders. Each painting has a high horizon line, with a sun and landscape at the top - a loose reference to Edvard Munch’s The Sun. After a closer look you realise the ‘boulders’ are actually torsos that I painted stacked on top of each other. This also ties in with my idea of the body negotiating its capacity in a supernatural way. I think of the top one as being present, kind of basking in the sun, while the other torsos successively going deeper ‘underground’ represents versions before it or even days before it, like a calendar. This series was made in the way a graphic novel would repeat images with small changes for developing dialogue. Whenever I shifted, painted, cut or stitched on one of the surfaces, the rest of the series necessarily had to change as well. The reading of the image is in the slight differences between each of them. This is an idea that is applicable to the rest of my practice as well.
Reservoir Projects, Cape Town, South Africa