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Into Africa
Friday, January 13, 2012
Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa, where I've been for just about two weeks, heading into a third. So much to absorb, very little time to draw but sketching every chance I can squeeze in like on the bus to the hospital where we are volunteering. Today Table Mountain is coated in foamy fog that keeps moving nearer to sea level, erasing the city slowly. Yesterday saw an exhibition of Peter Clarke, an esteemed South African artist who participated in the 1985 Thupelo Workshop with Bill Ainslie, a fact noted in his bio that pulled my heart closer, as working with Triangle Artists Workshop in New York is where I first dreamt of making a trip to Africa a reality. Clarke's work is moving, layered, graphic and personal. I love his expression "pigmented silence" from one of his Fanfare pieces; I have in my notes that he was writing about Miro, but I think I meant to write Rothko instead.
