"The Long Road" Exhibited at his one-man show at the Bell Roberts Gallery in 2005
Made from found objects, plasma screen, video footage and painting on the wall.
The found objects include a metal bed, completely worn out, yet held together with barbed wire. The reality is that it would have been used in this condition. Under the bed is another found object, a steel money box which has been cut open. Under the bed is a plasma screen with an 11 minute video which endlessly loops. The footage is of a wellworn path from a local church across the rocky desert to a now deserted landscape which takes in the view of where there was once a settlement of Nama people who have been "encouraged" to relocate. Being dragged along the path is a "tolletjie" or tin can toy, the kind of toy made to this day by local children. Whilst the path begins with the "Kotzes Hoop" church, it ends in a stone with a petroglyph (rock engraving) on it. This landscape is slowly gaining recognition for the wealth of rock art that peppers the landsscape. As with all rock art, it is vulnerable to grafitti both recent and old. In this case a haunting swastika, a stark reminder of the German influence that found its way to the west coast of Southern Africa, where it is believed the initial experiments of extermination camps were practised on the local Bushmen.
This particular facet of the Richetrsveld landscape, also gave rise to a painting titled "Dividing line"
