Imagine a desert floor, undisturbed by human traffic. It’s not the absence of life that is so dramatically visual. It is a few million years old retrospective of ancient seabed and cataclysmic geological events in Earth history, and the footprint of storms and water flow in the riverbeds. Vast pans nudge aside scrub and vlei and gentle hills and land, which drop outside of the quick glance, towards a perimeter of deep-set mountain horizon.
“Venus of Tankwa”, 2018
“Obstructed Portal”, 2018
“Daughter of the Karoo / father unknown“, 2022
“DNA of the Veld”, 2019
“Please forgive me”, 2019
Karola Pezzaro & Aris de Bakker
“Echo of the Desert“, 2019
2021
“Titanium”, 2021
2022
“4 x 4 Crop”, 2022
“iZilo ZeNtlango“, 2022
2022
The Sprites, South Africa
Maia Lehr-Sacks, Marguerite Neethling, Tegan Greene
“The Little Paper House II”, 2020
Andile Dyalvane, South Africa
“Uyalezo_ Song of the Desert River“, 2022
Robert Koch, South Africa
“Emergence”, 2020
Nkuthazo Alexis Dyalvane, South Africa
‘A spirit Goes’, 2022
Leli Hoch, South Africa
“Tamar in the Tankwa – 2 Sam 13:22 OT“, 2021
Alisa Farr, South Africa
2021
Kali van der Merwe, South Africa
“Emergence“, 2021
Photographers: Josie Borain, Bronwen Trupp, Tegan Fayne, Robert Koch, Kleoniki Vanos, Di Smith, Lyn Mossop, Frank Krummacher, Leli Hoch
View more artworks at tankwaartscape.co.za