“Harisson was about to ask this girl over for a Saturday luncheon on the grass, when he realised he’d been talking to an automated voice all along.”

“I’m getting towards the end of my Chicken Korma recipe and nowhere have they mentioned yet how to start a conversation… Which is somewhat disconcerting since my guests arrive in twenty minutes.”

“Someone asked me how I keep so fit. Two words: regular sleepwalking.”

“I heard someone say that being green is very in these days. They had a shiny car. It was not green. And I am the only one who recycles in this city.”

“He’s playing dead now? This is my third friendship rejection this week!”

This is my first solo exhibition. It will be travelling South Africa during 2010. For more information on dates and venues visit the Alliance Française website.

The following work is based on an instant message conversation between me and a friend:

Retha: I find it dizzying to think that all these people experience things at more or less the same intensity that I do. I just feel like all this energy should cause an explosion, and I guess it does… All the time :/

Bretton: Yes. It’s overwhelming. Isolation helps.

Retha: We’ve been talking for an hour, do you know that since we started this conversation the world human population has increased by 9207 members?

Bretton: Although in a sense what we’re all doing is trying to put as many slices together and say “This is the big picture”, it’s not. It’s just a set of slices.

Retha: Here… Let me help you visualise it. How does it make you feel?

Bretton: It looks like a star cluster very very very far away…

Many thanks to Bretton Vine for being a revered source of inspiration.

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Some of the highlights from my trip to Paris. I am fascinated by the craggy, informal parts of cities; this was no less true of Paris.

6-10 October 2008, Pretoria Eye Institute.
1700 cataract removals sponsored by Vodacom.

Afrika Burn is a 100% participant created and sponsored event involving radical self expression and self reliance. It’s an experiment in temporary community building exploring concepts related to art outside gallery and museum institutions. Encouraging a culture of environmental mindfulness…

These are stills from a stop motion video I made called “Boxing Out”.