Surviving Dystopia
My goal with the series was to illustrate three female characters living in an alternate distopian world. I wanted the pieces to mirror our own Corona virus pandemic and explore…
Lockdown Diaries
A visual journey of finding how some individuals adapted their lives around Lockdown. Human beings are used to routine, so what happens when that routine is suddenly disrupted? When confined…
Tupumue / Let Us Breathe
Working with two Kenyan filmmakers, Tupumue / Let Us Breathe film is a rumination on breath and moments of dealing with breathing, inhaling and exhaling in the informal settlement of…
WOM{B}_NIFESTOS
A New Way of Being is a short experimental film that layers a collection of images, words, movements, sounds and echoes of the violent feelings rippling through vulnerable bodies. This…
Untitled
Silence is that moment when the echoes of one’s thoughts, or is it the prayer moment, in modern parlance? Is it the meditative moment humanity has been waiting for, the mystery…
10 000 Stories
The poem titled “10 000 Stories” is a celebration of the oral tradition in Africa and the existential philosophy of Ubuntu which originates from AbaNtu. The line “I go forth along,…
Sneezing bullets / Breathing in this lifetime- a letter to my little people
Sneezing bullets (written in the Kaapse Afrikaans dialect, available for translation) This piece of poetry speaks about the invasion of the Coronavirus into the homes of people who are also…
“Ndiphefumla Ngenxeba”: Experiences of Mothering in a Pandemic
On the 5th of March 2020, Dr Zweli Mkhize, the Minister of Health announced that South Africa had its first confirmed case of the COVID 19 virus. Although the numbers were…
Hold for sixty, none, two and seven: a recipe for disaster management
My thinking during Covid’s uncertainty has produced a series of to-do lists, schedules and instructions which read like a recipe for controlling my breath through “hold” instructions. As many of…