It had always been a dream of mine to travel for some weeks on a freight ship. So, in March 2020 I boarded a freight ship in Durban, South Africa to begin the four weeks journey to Rotterdam.
It was a few days before the first Covid-19 case was detected in South Africa. We were blissfully unaware and started our journey.
I loved my time on the ship. Nothing but sky, water and space, always the ocean, day and night, no internet. The journey took as through the following ports: Durban - Cape Town - Walvis Bay, Namibia - Vigo, Spain - Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Whilst we were out at sea, somewhere past Walvis Bay, Covid-19 took off in Europe, creating a lot of insecurity about where and how we would disembark. I did disembark in Rotterdam, into a shut down world, and managed to get to Switzerland, my country of birth. It was a strange arrival, stepping away from the bliss and peace out at sea into a changed world.
“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin
Some of my images can be purchased here for editorial or commercial use.
With this gallery I wish to express my immense love for dogs. They are the ones who healed me and taught me a lot about life (before breaking my heart again and again).
Some of my images can be purchased for editorial or commercial use here.
I walked through these landscapes whilst I was alive, holding close this truth:
“This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.”— Terence McKenna
Images taken with my plastic Holga and DianaF+ camera using 35mm film.
This gallery shows my collages on board or canvas.
A happy medley of collages on paper. Enjoy!
I enjoy drawing faces. Some are one-line drawings, others are faces I drew with my eyes closed, some are mixed media faces. It’s all about enjoying the process.
Making art can be a happy place for some of us. Just keep those hands moving, the outcome doesn’t matter. Doodles, colours, scribbles, drawings, anything goes.