A month since the last post and work is underway for the visiting artists’ show toward the end of November. I spent quite a long time collecting images from newspapers and realised gradually that i kept coming back to the property ads in all their glory. The range of prices and locations is huge and the adverts clearly indicate who they expect to sell the top end to, which brings its own visual language into play.
I am aware of my own nostalgia for houses we used to visit as children; my grandmother’s friends in their tree-shaded Cape colonial homes with views of the mountains and the delights of swimming pools.The ads invoke landscape imagery found in romantic and Impressionist era work, an idyllic life free of contemporary worries about security and crime….
