:: 2017 :: 50cm x 50cm :: Acrylics, Inks and Markers on Canvas ::
During my first visit to the community of Melkhoutfontein, Western Cape, South Africa in February and March 2016, as part of the PaintUp with Kamamma project, I had a number of dreamlike experiences and visionary connections relating to a complex of indigenous Bushman beliefs about swifts, the rain and rock art. On returning home, these experiences flowed out of me to create an intuitive piece called !Khwa ~ Rain. However, I began to feel that I should carry this imagery and this vision with me always, and so I turned that artwork into a circular tattoo design, with a subtle feeling running through me that I had somehow been transformed into rain during those dreams. This artwork then sprang from the tattoo design…
The title in the proper orthography of the /Xam language is ŋ /ne kaŋ e: !khwa, meaning literally 'I am that which is rain'.
The Swift People, Ezeljagdspoort, March 2016
Design for a tattoo on my back which I had done after returning from South Africa
