In addition to the Nose suite of 30 etchings, five prints, known informally in the workshop as the “Nose Extras” – El Lissitky, Mirror, Odalisque, Chaise-Longue, and Nose on…
In addition to the Nose suite of 30 etchings, five prints, known informally in the workshop as the “Nose Extras” – El Lissitky, Mirror, Odalisque, Chaise-Longue, and Nose on…
Birth of a Nation comprises of a suite of ten etchings using imagery that is adapted from classical mythology to a South African context of…
Birth of a Nation comprises of a suite of ten etchings using imagery that is adapted from classical mythology to a South African context of…
Birth of a Nation comprises of a suite of ten etchings using imagery that is adapted from classical mythology to a South African context of…
Birth of a Nation comprises of a suite of ten etchings using imagery that is adapted from classical mythology to a South African context of…
DARKNESS AT NOON I read Koestler’s Darkness at Noon as a first-year university student. It was written in the immediate aftermath of the 1937/1938 Stalin…
A SYLLOGISM OF PRINTING (libel) Testing an image through printing. The drawing on the etching plate is covered in ink. The ink is wiped off,…
PUTTING THE S INTO LAUGHTER Compulsory Hilarity. An X in Russian is transliterated as Kh, a guttural clearing of the throat like the G in…
YES, OF COURSE (bust) Noses feature often in Gogol’s writing. He himself had a famous nose. A bust of him in the hermitage shows a…
COPPERPLATE Light up and hard down, was how we were taught to write—a bastardised, simplified calligraphy of ‘scribble’ writing. This was possible with an HB…
ANOTHER KHEPPI ENDING At the end of Gogol’s story, collegiate assessor Kovalyov wakes one morning and finds that his nose is back in its place…