Morning in Mafekeng Print

The trip to Bothithong is an adventure that developed into an art project that I planned and worked on for some years. It is a dream come true and an inner as well as a physical journey. For three months I traveled with a friend's cousin in the northwest of South Africa, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. In the last fifteen years, I have had the good fortune to participate in some big, fun, and exciting projects, also smaller but just as fun. My idea was to let the very encounter with a completely different culture create the conditions for shaking up my own habits, my behavior, and ingrained ways of thinking. Somehow reset the counter and be who I am but with brand new glasses. I found peace in myself and my work. I painted watercolors, was drawing every day, and took lots of photos. And for the first time, I got to work with a model, which was an outstanding experience. Tiisetso is so natural and easy to work with. It doesn't even feel like working when we start.