to create

as I am created.

“Ride Me like a Flare that’s Lost”. Ink & Mix-media on canvas. [250x250]mm.

“Kick me back Zig-Zag Stag” Ink & Mix-media on canvas. [250x250]mm.

P A R E I D O L I A

COLLECTION

Pærɪˈdoʊliə: The tendency to make meaningful interpretations of (nebulous) images like seeing an object, or patterns - where there may be none.
Examples include seeing faces, or objects in clouds or ‘lunar pareidolia’ like seeing a rabbit on the moon.
Pareidolia can extend to hearing voices (mainly indistinct) in recorded music when played in reverse or at higher - or lower-than-normal speeds and hearing musical tunes in random noises produced by air conditioners or other appliances like fans.

“She’s a fire Andromeda” Ink & Mix-media on canvas. [1000x1500]mm.

“She’s a Fire Andromeda” detail. Print on Canvas.[297x420]mm.

“Kick me back ZZS” detail. Print on canvas. [297x420]mm.

Exhibition

INK | Pareidolia

Sunday 03 November, Central Square Sandton

Nov.

03/24

“Dreams are the Galaxy’s Split Ends”. Ink & Mix-media on canvas. [500x500]mm.

“Electric Elk-horn Soup” Ink & Mix-media on canvas.[500x500]mm.

“Violet Cinnaraveon Tea” detail. Print on canvas. [297x420]mm.

“Sea me in the Dark Horse”. Ink & Mix-media on canvas. [500x500]mm.

“Corals & Oceans” detail. Print on canvas..[2970x420]mm.

“Corals & Oceans” Mixed-Media on Canvas. 1400x2315]mm.

“Turn Me Inside Out with Your Gaze”Ink & Mix-media on canvas.[300x400]mm.

“Corals & Oceans” Mixed-Media on Canvas. 1400x2315]mm.

July.

30/24

CHCL

“JCHX”. Charcoal on Fabriano & Ink, Mix-Gold Leaf [6870x1330]mm.

Cello

my Sweetheart

Journal

Process Entry

“Cello My Sweetheart” Mix-media Illustrative Sculpture. [267x214]mm.

March

17/23

EXP | Boos & Bones

NEW SCULPTURE

“Aurora Teckhne”. [270x140]mm. Eyelash Curler, plâtre de Paris, bamboo, copper, Red Jasper.

On the concept of beauty, what makes a woman Beautiful?

Inspired by Njabulo Ndebele’s “Rediscovery of the Ordinary” 1991, the “Feminine Body” sculpture transforms the everyday object, the eyelash curler, into a visual statement of beauty. How ones culture & beliefs can bend and twist perceptions of and feelings for the body as beautiful. I remember believing that “beauty is pain” & how it costs to be beautiful. I sacrificed for my art because I thought if I created beauty around me, I would believe I was eventually too; But beauty is not skin deep and an apple does not taste itself.

Art truly heals something deep within me, learning to accept and truly see the magic that I am made of and the sparkle I am here to offer this world. I am honoured to give art, may it be seen or hidden under the matrix blanket of internet algorithms & I’m glad it has reached you. “Aurora Tckhne” is a guardian to the women who had no choice; she is there for those who suffered at the shadow side of their surgeons hands. May she heal the incisions that extended the fields of self love and acceptance with scars & taboo talk “on beauty”. She protects and illuminates the Truth of “womanly” & of Beauty. She is a devotion to the women who left the ward feeling like their femininity was compromised; either for less or more, She reminds us that there is Life and that this is everything money cannot buy.

To all woman learning self love and acceptance, her symbolism is a prayer to rediscover our deep beauty, hidden like a jewel that is Our Heart which is perfect in our imperfection.

A special thanks to Soloman, Alexander, Gulia, Saihim and my mom for making this dream reality.

This year, I filmed the music video for my single, “Carpet” in the Maldives. Creativity. Inspiration for me, feels like the ocean: She is a water of depth and mystery that I will never quite grasp. To be inspired is to be close to Spirit, it is of breathing and movement. I wanted to create, with this in mind, art that can be fleeting - with less physicality, but more ephemeral… much like a song can leave an impression on our heart, like a memory or feelings, something that is a little like water.

K&.