Remembering South Africa…
and planning to go back!
Go and see Pfunanane Ministries new website with featured photographs
by Nate Johnson and myself.
They need some new school buildings and cottages built as soon as possible –
if you’re interested in helping this incredible school, contact me.
Kruger Park, South Africa
Kruger Park, South Africa
Kruger Park, South Africa
…this [...]
My good friend, Bradley Speaks, contacted me to hang my work in the new Quills Coffee location in Louisville, KY. They recently relocated and had a grand opening in August. Feel honored to have my work from Pfunanane Academy in South Africa displaying until the end of this month. I wasn’t able to see it [...]
This is the post before the post of my heart finalizing my time in South Africa.
After sharing last night (first presentation of many back here at home), I know this to be true (always): Art is finally art when truly communicated. It has been communicated to some degree before now, but the processing of it [...]
Pfunanane Academy, Duiwelskloof, South Africa
I need a real medium format, soon to be purchased. Until then…
Nate, Kruger Park, South Africa
Precious, Pfunanane Academy, South Africa
Bantry Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
Barren Land, Chicago, IL
Andrew, Charleston, WV
Paul, from Raleigh, NC visiting us in Charleston, WV
Grade R (known to us as Kindergarden), Pfunanane Academy, South Africa
Kgapane, South Africa
Picking up 5×7 prints to send off to sponsors
Finally, finally beginning to finish up my S.Africa video presentation.
(You all have such patience, hope I haven’t lost your too much of your interest
Dreamt of all the simple beauties of South Africa last night… missing it so much this morning
I’ve been juggling so [...]
“For example, a marriage without a place, a household, has nothing to show for itself. Without a history of some length, it does not know what it means, without community, to exert a shaping pressure around it, it may explode because of the pressure inside of it.“
excerpt from The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell [...]
all taken with my Holga 120S.
This simple Scripture [below] I read two mornings ago while the sky, at 6am, is still the darkest of blue hues, and the silence is deafening. These few verses stilled my spirit in this transition back into American culture. Sitting there, I remembered the early, warm mornings just a few weeks ago — you could [...]
This past week:
last day of school,
left Duiwelskloof and our South African family,
experienced the wild beauty of Kruger Park,
drove to Joburg,
dropped off Sarah at the airport,
stayed in Joburg a night at ShaMani,
flew home 7:20PM Friday night
and landed on American soil Saturday at 8AM – rebooting our body clocks 7hrs back.
We flew into snow.
Nate left yesterday from here [...]
