a long time
Hello again world.
I havent posted anything since the Tuned Stairs kicked in at center pompidou last october. In fact I havent uploaded anything to flickr either! Not to mention the fact that I also haven’t updated my portfolio. (oi)
So: its been over six months, and I definitely am well beyond making up excuses for lack of updates. It begins here! The brief history: Left Italy in December. It was after 21 months of extraordinary time spent in the quaintest (though rather fascist) town named Treviso, while working for Fabrica. Perhaps I will write up a little about my 21 months there… but definitely not now! As for leaving - well it really was time to move on. Though I loved the place, the experience, and of course the food/friends/language etc - I needed to do something else.
As soon as I returned to South Africa I packed a smaller bag and rushed off to Botswana! I met up with one of the best collection of my old mates: Robert, Yuval, Shannon, and Aviv. We proceeded to have 10 days of fantastic fun driving around getting lost, tiger fishing, drinking, playing match stick riddles, eating fantastically well, etc etc. Wonderful. The day after our return from Bots, I was off to Cape Town to meet Family Hirschmann. Of course it was lovely to see the clan, get some sun and enjoy the beauties of the Cape. I stayed on in Cape Town to do some preparatory work for my Visa application and to do some ground work for a project I was doing with Collaborators Guide. More on that in a future post. (Though for now, you can read about it here.)
Once that project was completed and my lady Bethany had come and gone, I spent a week teaching physical computing at my old University. At that point, my grandfather managed to get himself an idiopathic condition which made him extremely ill. SO we all became intensely focused on the mortality of our loved ones and dealt with some rather hard emotions. Thankfully after 2 weeks, he started making progress and even now there is daily improvement! It truly boggles the mind when confronted with the possibilities of death, followed by the magic of the human body’s capacity to heal itself.
Anyway, so i was granted an artists visa for the UK. This allowed me to move to London, and get a job at Jason Bruges Studio. A marvelous studio made up of architects, designers, creative thinkers, and fantastic administrators. So far (2 months in) I’ve been having a great time! Updates on projects will come at some stage in the future too!
Thats it for now. Everyone is upto speed. Now all I have to do is post all the photos!