After image : reflections on a site specific artwork

Abstract

This article involves a discussion of the way in which it was attempted to image the multi-layered dialectic between a specific site and the elements of an added structure in terms of the relationship between form and content. The attempt was my contribution to the !Xoe Site Specific Project organized by the Ibis Gallery in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in July 1998. It was entitled: "Breaking the Hoop", an oblique reference to the disruptive process of colonization.