Untitled II - Ice Block Series

“Untitled I serves as a centrepiece in my body of work. It is a 100kg ice block which has been transported from Cape Town to Verneukpan, which is 200km from the Namibian border.

It is multi-faceted in meaning and ultimately aims to encompass many of my concerns in this one piece. The ice block of such magnitude is not a commonality in a space such as the desert and the piece deliberately seeks a venue of extreme contrast and this is accomplished in a space where something such as water is a great scarcity.

The ice block finds itself in a location so foreign and unnatural and the absurdity in getting an ice block to this location, the money spent on something that is impermanent all seeks to comment on our advancements in technology and our increasing capabilities to do things previously impossible. “