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Author Archives: Reviva
Guest Spot 1: Gerald Prinsloo
Gerald works for us every 2nd Saturday, doing a bit of gardening, painting, that sort of thing. I asked him permission to publish what he has told me of his life. In his own words: I’m Prinsloo because I … Continue reading
Ugly
It’s a lesson that I keep having to learn over and over again. Ugly doesn’t matter. When all the instincts scream, “too hideous for words,” the strategies kick in: Destroy it: Before my eldest son was born I gouged a … Continue reading
It’s not only high art that speaks
Maybe by now you’ve realised that we are – you name it – junk addicts, flea-market trawlers , fête bingers, rubbish luggers… How about collectors of crappola (a term coined by another shit magnet and great American artist, Philip … Continue reading
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Tagged flea market finds, Reading, Sunday painter
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Fantasies of living in a church in Klaarstroom
We came across a FOR SALE sign on this bleak, isolated building in the middle of nowhere (which, like most places that are nowhere, is, of course, somewhere -in the small dorpie of Klaarstroom in the Klein Karoo, in … Continue reading
For regular attendance, neatness and general excellence
Do you know why a fly leaf is called a fly leaf? A clue I found in the dictionary (Webster’s) comes under one of the definitions of fly: Formerly, the person who took the sheets off the press. But I … Continue reading
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Eat me
It’s the last thing you might want to do to these, but hell, they sure are something to look at! These plates(!) from a cook book from yore that was … Continue reading →