@ Royal Fashion, 5 Bathurst St., Makhanda

The shopfronts in Bathurst St., Makhanda, reflect the ways in which its colonial past merge with its digital present.

Bathurst St. named after Lord Bathurst was a British Colonial Officer. It was to Lord Bathurst that Lord Charles Somerset wrote urging the settlement of British subjects to create a human barrier between the Cape Colony and the amaXhosa territory.

In the prints, the woodcut imitates an ‘engraving’, the style in which images of the frontier were transmitted to the European ‘center’ in newspapers such as The Illustrated London News. It is through the frames of the cell phone, that new narratives are taking place.