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- ItemOpen AccessFallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice(2025) Chambers, Kerry Lee Maria; Langerman, Fritha; Van Der Schijff, JohannFallen things is an exhibition of sculptural objects and accompanying text that investigates how the overlapping motifs of veil-wound-womb can articulate fragility and the erotic in sculptural practice. This research draws from Christian iconographic traditions of the contact relic and vera icon, Surrealist object theory, and the generative potential of the matrixial effect to examine how these conceptual and practical motifs manifest in contemporary artistic practices. Using a wide range of source images in the written component and working with casting, carving and assemblage; I explore how gravity, temporal moments of contact, and subtle material juxtapositions cultivate a tactile dialogue between materiality and form. Nestled in the grey area between abstraction and figuration, and drawing on Barbara Baert's analysis of material tensions between cloth and skin, wound and womb, material and psychological; this body of work delineates a sculptural practice that is associative and intuitive, evoking surfaces that hover between exterior and interior.
- ItemOpen AccessWord and image : analysis and response through the illustration of a specific literary text(1995) Jackson, David John; Helmut , Starcke; van Vuuren, Louis JansenThe paintings and graphic works that comprise the practical component of this project are illustrations that accompany the text of Mike Nicol's novel, Horseman (published by Bloomsbury in 1994). This document explores aspects of interconnecting historical and theoretical influences that shape the making of illustrations. I have approached this with a view to developing an understanding of the function of illustration-that is the relationship between word and image-within the context of my body of wo