Drawing clouds in the Karoo - Strijdom van der Merwe

In this series of documented photographs Van der Merwe used the rusted wires that were deposited in the landscape and arranged them on the existing sandstone pillars in the landscape. These sculptural drawings are metaphors to cloud formations and his close relation to the land and the cycles of nature as it occurs in the landscape. The building up of clouds is also a reference to the building up of public anger against the proposed “fracking” in the Karoo. The installation inside the gallery functions as a ‘time machine’ symbolizing the ‘sleeping’ time bomb that await us if we don’t take appropriate action in protecting our natural resources.

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