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ANOTHER DIMENSION 2014
A collaboration with Eve Collett of Casamento, Capetown's most innovative and bespoke furniture studio. The Casamento Showroom is situated at the Foundry, an old foundry building that now houses – along with a foundry – many unusual artistic and design projects. We knew that the collages would work well with the pieces shown, two of which, Eve made in response to the colour palette and mood of the pictures exhibited.
FLORAL OCEAN COLLAGES 2014
A commissioned project fusing digitally manipulated images of South Africa's unique Cape Floral Kingdom, with the underwater worlds of local marine reefs. Radiant alien scifi colours and textures are innate to both life forms.
ELLE DECOR 2014
A collaboration with Missibaba (Chloe, Lizel and Robyn) for Elle Décor. The magazine profiles an artist /designer collaborative project in every issue. Ours was in the October 2014 publication.
WEDDING INSTALLATION 2014
These digital collages were commissioned for Missibaba's Chloe Townsend's wedding in april 2014.
BECOMING ANIMAL 2013
My collages were screened during Delphi Carstens "Becoming Animal' presentation at the 'Figuring The Animal' colloquium at the University of the Western Cape, Capetown in 2013.
HYPERSTITION - TEDX TALK by DELPHI CARSTENS 2012
Capetown held a very successful series of Tedx Talks in 2012, which are all available on YouTube. Delphi Carstens talked on the core subject of his phd, Hyperstition, in relation to current global concerns and frequencies. He spoke with a specially edited 0rphan Drift video playing behind him.
PROTOCOLS FOR EXPERIMENTS IN AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION 2009
with Delphi Carstens. Published in UCT Scrutiny Journal 2010.
CCRU - LIQUID LATTICE 2007
'Liquid Lattice' opens with the Shanghai node of CCRU's research paper on the origins of the Centauri pack, and their reclamation of it's lost text. The piece then becomes non linear, a possession channelling black atlantean mutations, cthulonic demons, artificial intelligence and drowned world futures, the 0rphan Drift fiction in response to the CCRU's Five Realms of black atlantean occult cosmology.
LINEAMENTS OF THE LWA 2000
'Lineaments of the Lwa' is a documentary collaboration between myself and Ranu Mukherjee of 0rphan Drift and Leah Gordon, artist. photographer and film maker. Funded by the Haiti Support Group London branch, 'Lineaments' describes the pantheon of spirits that inhabit Haitian Voudou, focusing on artistic representations. Most of the houngan or spiritual leaders are also artists, manifesting their connection to the lwa they serve, through altars, sequin flags, dolls and wrought iron sculptures.