I am fascinated both by the ability of the human spirit to transcend ‘the conceptual decay’, and the unique liminality of the post-apartheid South African city. My works illuminate the contrasts of lived experiences by showing people mentally cocooned from, yet physically enveloped by, life’s detritus.

My works construct hope from despair, and possibility from arduousness. A simple, literal reading might see representations of the Johannesburg cityscape. However, at a deeper level, these works are psychological mind-spaces which, like the phenomenon of pareidolia, perceive specific, meaningful images in random, ambiguous visual patterns. These works thus become representations of the internal rather than the external.