Article: Below the Sediments: Dissecting Water Alienation in the Semi-Desert Region of the Karoo, South Africa
09 April 2021
Below the Sediments is a five panelled two layered print that visualizes the earth below the Karoo landscape, with images of pipes used for fracking superimposed on this image. In this article the author weaves references to this work with the history of water diving in the karoo in the nineteenth century, and contemporary references to fracking. the author questions the simplistic dichotomy constructed in the popular press, then and now, between a rational scientific epistomolgy and 'irrational' local lore. The panels illustrate these tensions.