Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Every few years the Government does its best to wreck the legal and economic life of Makana by proposing to move the High Court to Bhisho. In the mid 1990s I assisted the fight to keep the court here with some maps and population data that showed Makhanda (what was then Grahamstown) to be the... Continue Reading →
I was very pleased with the reception to the Juxtaposed Dalarna Landscapes posted previously and that's inspired me to try something similar with the work in the Hogsback gallery I have already published. Hogsback Juxtaposed: SuperMoon Rising In the Dalarna landscapes there's lots of potential to juxtapose images on top of the reflections of the... Continue Reading →
Every once in a while I'll return to one of my lifetime's passions - making maps. This post is about one of the biggest mapping problems. If you look either at the header to this post or some of the beautiful maps of South Africa's river networks they give the impression that the region is... Continue Reading →
This is something different. In July 2014 I had my first experience of plant sound - it was Dan Fox’s installation ‘Harmonica Botanica’ at the Cragside gardens in Northumberland. I just loved the concept and sensation of hearing a laurel plant grow. Eight years have passed since then but I recently discovered - to my... Continue Reading →
I'm enjoying the flexibility of a virtual exhibition space at #naf2022. It's meant that I can easily add this new image of Amakhala - taken a couple of weeks ago- to the Room of Dreams. Aloes, Winter Stars and Dawn Light, Amakhala It fits very nicely in the centre of the wall of landscapes with... Continue Reading →
Room of Dreams - my 3D virtual exhibition at #naf2022 - has 57 of my nature and landscape images and I’ve just realised that seven of the images on the landscapes wall are of Hogsback. That’s by far the biggest number from any one place. All of them were taken over the past two years... Continue Reading →
Earlier this month I spent a whole day at the #nationalartsfestival Power Station with @meagieswain. We were doing promotion work for our upcoming virtual exhibition Set Your Life on Fire. I’d already shown her some pictures of the location - there’s a gallery of them linked below in the Nature is Louder website - and... Continue Reading →
We’ve been planning this shoot on the beautiful hills above Featherstone Kloof for quite a while. @meagieswain told me that she has always wanted to do a tulle fabric shoot - completely wrapped in white - and I was keen to get some more images to promote our forthcoming virtual exhibition ‘Set Your Life on... Continue Reading →
I think there's a good deal of fun to be had light painting. It's like a mini performance. You have to imagine a dark scene to light up, get your camera organised, put on your darkest clothes, start the camera and then take your light into the space, weaving and turning, circling and waving. Then... Continue Reading →
I've really found Escher's work to be inspirational and it's so nice to be able to take it into a new dimension. I re-imagined Escher's Butterflies in one of my earlier posts and now I've finished mapping the whole continent's rivers I've been able to realise a new, more complete, look for the idea. Escher's... Continue Reading →
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