I call my friend Dan, Beterweet. That means Know-all in another one of our 11 official languages. We are sitting on a bench that has been placed high on a sand dune in memory of a local resident. It’s a dazzling beauty of a day looking out over the beach and the Indian Ocean. We …
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Parting Shot. The Grey Chlorocebus pygerythrus
After a lengthy study I discovered that ‘Chloro’ means green and ‘Cebus’ indicates a genus of monkey. Add Pygerythrus after Chlorocebus and you get those awfully cute mammals called Vervet monkeys that have black faces and grey bodies. There are millions throughout Africa and where I live they often come to visit, chattering in the …
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The Black Rhinoceros
In the land of contradictions, black is actually white and the next day white is meant to be black. Pink pigs grovel in the mud beneath the nations dream rainbows and then waddle back to their sty a red-brown colour. They can also be an ochre-brown or a brownie-brown —- all depends on the colour …
The Three Ducks
I was tortured as a baby. My mother, born German and a strict disciplinarian, indoctrinated me from birth that there is nothing to laugh about in life. That’s the funny part of my beginnings as a human being. But, I lie. I lie because after being in the world for a mere 3 months, I …
The Great White
The Great White Shark. Natures Valley. South Africa. 2016 _______________________________________________________________________ The pallet that I hold in front of my canvas of journeys has on its surface a painterly collection of characters and places. What I paint on that canvas is a small aspect of my attempts to enlarge and capture pictorially, the greater essence …