AboutI am an independent artist and former architect based in Cape Town. My work explores and documents expressions of power embedded in the urban landscape, and how the lingering influence of laws, social structures, and development trends continues to shape everyday spaces, objects, and rituals. I am drawn to the hidden patterns that shape our cities. These are often obscured by the distractions of daily life, masked by surface order, or dulled by the habitual movement of the city. Through photography, observational writing, and research, I trace the slow structures of power that lie beneath the surface. They manifest as deeper social anxieties, expressed through the rise of securitised precincts, the entrenchment of class divisions, and the quiet violence of spatial exclusion. Through sculpture, assemblage, and other formal techniques, I tease out these patterns and give them physical form. Beguiling at first, sometimes playful, the pieces reveal undercurrents of control, precarity, and structural violence. My practice sits at the intersection of architecture, urban research, and social critique, examining not just systems of division but also the secular liturgies of suburban life: rituals of locking, scanning, and self-soothing. It maps the aftershocks of apartheid-era planning alongside contemporary urban fears and fantasies. |