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HA!ART
creations with an aesthetic bent
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FACES
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I took an online course in figure drawing. these are seven faces
i drew each day of the past week. faces exercises in drawing faces
showing feeling. or faces of which i could find feeling, without
which i cannot draw (JD Feb 2021) |
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DRAWINGS |
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aesthetic |
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gattelik
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sak af na die stilte waar die windgattiglike wind praat sonder twyfel
(HM Feb 2021) |
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GEDIGTE |
1-1
primordiaal |
A4
handgeskrewe |
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Stroll
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One of the Xhosa song motives given to me by the late soprano Nolufefe
Mtshabe to rework in symphonic terms. This one strolls along gently,
builds climactically and eases back again. (with HM March 2008) |
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RECORDINGS |
3-3
all-embracing |
06:37 |
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straight
into your eyes
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a graphite experiment with shadows - a young ,man's face and the
feeling it evokes (JD Feb 2021) |
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DRAWINGS |
3-1
emotive |
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bird
becoming
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minimal spontaneous hand suggestive of bird beginnings (HM May 2019) |
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DRAWINGS |
1-1
minimal |
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HA!MIND
issue-driven and food-for-thought creations
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illusion
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what came out between myself and Christopher Pressing in Chicago,
with an array of sound making objects and a text by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In this first of five pieces, the word illusion features in sometimes
humerous ways (Oct 2015)
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RECORDINGS
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2-1
experimental |
07:32
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The
You
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look around. listen. watch. a thousand messages about and for
You. every hour, every day. all lies. and yet we keep believing
the God of our times. (HM Feb 2021)
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POEMS
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3-2
festive |
870
words
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dialogue
between a madman and a madman
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madness as the result of emotional deprivation. one taking refuge
in the right brain, the other in the left (HM Feb 2021)
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PROSE
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2-1
philosophical |
1102
words
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china
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china - a few images of my only visit to China (Shanghai) that
could be saved from many that went lost through a hard drive crash.
A tale of the old and the new. (HM Apr 2007)
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SLIDESHOWS
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3-3
communal |
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pictures
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SITRAP
210121
Trump, car crashes and boredom
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after both Biden and Trump's speeches i was reminded of running
after car crashes as a child. why do i still watch car crashes
on YouTube? why am i a bit sad that Trump is leaving? and yet
i cried as i welcomed boredom (HM Jan 2021)
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ESSAYS
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3-3
politics, human condition |
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by hand |
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HA!LIFE
creations drawing from daily life, on the road and
stage
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Relentless
Tears
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with text about finding and losing oneself in darkness, the drifting
and wailing soundtrack is accompanied by solitary visuals of our
visit to Sharjah, UAE.(HM, JD and ML Feb 2021)
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VIDEO
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3-1
emotive |
07:17
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Questions
of Spirituality
1 - Stories of faith
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introducing a series of essays on my own story around faith and
spirituality, as it relates to general issues of faith. (HM March
2014)
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ESSAYS
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1-3
spirituality, connection |
739
words
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so
lunch it is
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written in a coffee shop after a tense conversation (HM Oct 2011)
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POEMS
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1-3
relational |
152
words
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Hitch-Hiking
Years (4)
On
the people that picked me up
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the fourth recollection of incidents during my hitch-hiking years
(1991-1999), I was given lifts by a wide array of people. This
chapter opens the lid on some of these benefactors and the anecdotes
that stayed with me. (HM Feb 2021)
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PROSE
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2-2
sciences, objectivity |
4031
words
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cello
improv 080725
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i received a neat applause for this one. some bravura elements
during a rather energetic dis-play. no idea where this was! (HM
Jul 2008)
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RECORDINGS
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3-3
all-embracing |
06:29
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three
women in yellow dresses
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where to find the hope in these strange times? sometimes, it's
right in front of you (JD Jan 2021)
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POEMS
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1-3
relational |
141
words
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