@Steers, 14 Bathurst St., Makhanda

Steers, 14 Bathurst St., Makhanda

The print @Steers, 14 Bathurst St., Makhanda, depicts the glass shopfront of a popular fast-food outlet, in the cellphone image is the Observatory, a building which houses a panopticon like camera obscura used during the colonial period for keeping watch on the local population. 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.