Work has kicked back in with a vengeance, so posts will be less frequent than in the holidays; sometimes I think I'd be quite happy to be on permanent holiday... In the meantime, some photos of objects I've picked up over the past few weeks (tourist shops and stalls tend to undermine any sense of uniqueness of the artefacts they're selling by having hundreds of the same item, even when they're made by hand - but I like some of them anyway; and who says a work of art needs to be unique?) and some of art work at the Constitutional Court - see if you can tell which are which.
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The chameleon is lovely! It is hard to believe they sell many copies of those. Maybe African souvenirs are not being made in China as European:-)
Wire and bead sculptures are everywhere - from zebras the size of Alsatians to these little animals, which cost ten rand - less than one euro.... I suppose the materials are cheap and the real cost is the time taken in creating these objects; and there really are hundreds - in Rosebank market on Sunday mornings you can see stalls four metres long crammed with these mini-sculptures and nothing else...
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