I love white spaces, spaces that you can do anything with. A white space can look different every day.
One of my favourite white spaces is in the Wanderers Building at the Dimension Data Campus in Bryanston where The Forum conference facility is located. I unfortunately don’t have photos of that space.
The photos I’m showcasing today is of the space at the Standard Bank Gallery in the Joburg city centre. In September last year they exhibited Justin Fiske’s kinetic sculptures. They are astonishing, how they just hang, move or come to a standstill. Or just stand still yet seem as though they are in movement.
As the observer physically interacts with the sculpture they become simultaneously the observed. I love that, something so quantum about it.
The gallery also represents a space without boundaries, where each artist makes it their own, yet at the same time it is contained by walls – the incongruity of space and limits. Or is it space vs. limits?
Space and limits – Standard Bank GallerySpace and limits – Standard Bank Gallery
WordPress's weekly photo challenge this week is Room. Like a few other English words, Room means two contradictory things. It can be the four walls that enclose us, giving us shelter and comfort but also limiting our movement. It’s also the limitless space into which we can wander and which we can fill — or try to (think about that expression, “room to grow”).
Check out more interpretations of the this week's theme here:
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/room/
The other day I went for a walk in the veld, bush actually. I found some very interesting things, not the kind of things one would normally find in the veld. The fact that they are in the middle of a camping resort construction site didn’t make it any less bizarre.
I recently bought a really nice camera, my first serious one, and I’ve been having fun, learning…my husband has nicknamed me Paparazzi because it is always with me and I snap away. I love snapping people when they are not posed, when they are at their most relaxed and natural. I love photographing children, they are such gratifying subjects.
I have yet to find a child who does not like being photographed. Cameras are such a ubiquitous part of our existence, phone cameras being the de-facto point and click devices, that most people are used to being snapped. I read that the traditional point and click market is diminishing due to mobile phones having such good cameras. And they have the added benefit of immediate sharing.
Anyway, below are the bizarre things that I found when I went for a walk in the veld.
Loos, all in a neat row, the pipes all connected. Not much privacy at the moment. These stalls are going to be very narrow!
Someone’s shoe and piece of clothing. The huge pile of hay makes for a great place to take a snooze after lunch…(yes, a snooze, not what you’re thinking!)…
A cast-iron pot…! Really?
Now this had me confuddled…team-building thingy-madjig thing probably. Or target shooting…?
There’s a kudu in that picture, right in the middle, hidden by the veld, LOL! Seriously, there was, I saw him.
Mozambican-born Portuguese South African; reflecting on travel, writing, editing, life, family and change that has social impact; chief wide eyed in wanderer, wonderer and bottlewasher
