Notes

"What happened to me was this – I had been to Driekopseiland in Griqualand West, and there I found strange drawings and strange symbols on the rocks. I had seen hundreds of them, and I had quite an itch to make my own kinds of things. Now what happened was that I filled my sketchbook with them, thousands of them, all kinds of things and then I had the idea to make my own special kind of writing (Walter Battiss, 'Wanted: A History of Art in South Africa', Fontein, 1960, pages 8 and 9.

Literature

cf. Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself: The Jack Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation. Similar works on pages 55 and 77.