A few years ago, when visiting the vast Sandton City shopping centre in Johannesberg, I had an idea for an art performance. I would make friends with everybody who entered the shopping centre. I would be filmed approaching people, smiling at them, trying to make friends in a very short time and exchange phone numbers (this being before the Internet). A somewhat bizarre idea, given that one wouldn't be able to establish very intimate friendships, but nonetheless demonstrating my desire to know everybody and everybody to know me. The inter web, with its Facebook, Blogging and Twitter comes as close to this performance as is humanly possible.
I have decided to share some recent paintings and the poems that I wrote to illustrate the images after painting them.
Herewith..."Play us a song, you're the Piano man" October 2010
Dry out tears Piano man,
the silent blonde grass and thorn trees.
The sleeping shepard rose from its endless sands.
Lulu in purple dancing in the doorway.
Come inside and dance the dance of the
light in the desert.
Play us a song, Piano man, that we will
always hear in the quiet place of the endless sky.
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