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For celebrated multidisciplinary artist Yonela Makoba, participating in a Cape Town exhibition titled Bodyland — A Site for Contemplation has symbolised her emotional route back to the Eastern Cape and back to herself.
After decades of swapping pottery skills and teaching ceramics in SA and internationally, Irene Walker now lives in Rhodes Village where she practices her craft inspired by solitude and the landscape that surrounds her.
In the early days of televised cookery shows, viewers were shown a step-by-step guide how to make chicken à la king or how to turn carefully measured ingredients into a magnificent chocolate gateau.
After a few weeks off from the daily grind of clashing school schedules, last-minute lunch box-packing and frenetic school runs, the school year has begun, but family life can be less chaotic with a few tweaks, a spot of planning and a whole lot of love.
When a Norwegian craft importer spotted a tiny beaded wire angel at a craft development agency sample showing in Cape Town 16 years ago, she knew it would be a hit in her country. What Kjersti Lie Holtar did not know was that the angels were made in a remote, mostly forgotten village deep in the Karoo.
One week into 2022 and, statistically, most of our New Year resolutions are already in the toilet, defeated by pesky bad habits and the scourge of procrastination.
Every year at about this time, millions of people all over the world erect a tree in their living room and suspend shimmery baubles and flickering lights from its branches. But why do we do it? Why do we unpack a pointy, artificial tree from the attic or buy a similarly pointy, but formerly alive, tree and stare at its splendour until that dreary January day when it gets tossed out or repacked? Like many rituals that we simply repeat for nostalgia’s sake or because they bring some respite fr...