Notes

Woven by Katriena Kammies (Aunt Guni) and hand-stitched by
Gizella Arendse. Aunt Guni says this is her favourite piece in
the collection. Roos Lenders says it looks like a thundercloud
approaching. The hope that dark skies bring to a thirsty land.
Gizella says that this piece reminds her of the time she drew
a flower at school and her teacher Jeffrey Armoed helped
her realize she was creative. Now years later blik blom hangs
on Jeffrey’s wall in Botterblom, his six-year-old student now
a mother of three, placing her art back on his walls.
Blik blom was a piece inspired by the concept of bringing the
outside in. Taking cuttings of plants and placing them in tins.
Maybe we paint those tins bright pink and place them on the
kitchen counter.
The cloud bursts open now as the isolated rain shower falls on
your patch of earth. The dry succulent opens to let its insides
drink. The sunbirds don’t take long after the rain passes to latch
onto the bright orange juices and the threads of that bloom blow
somewhere new.

(Botterblom Collection Catalogue, 2024)

Provenance

Botterblom Collection.