@ The Sunflower Hospice Shop ,67 Bathurst St., Makhanda

Charity Shop, 67 Bathurst St., Makhanda

In the print @Sunshine Hospice Shop, Bathurst St., Makhanda, the image created through woodcut depicts remnants of the colonial history of the town with its stone masonry and large wooden framed windows. These windows now have finely meshed security bars over them and the local security company, Hi-Tec sign clings to the security gate. The image in the cell phone depicts the window of the local shop that sells second-hand goods, on the wall alongside the window a number to phone for a safe abortion, to find  a lost lover or get a penis enlargement. 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, devices from the present, that a new and contemporary narrative is taking place.