Devastation and restoration: the use of Namibian dense salt blocks and the Cape Cross Salt Pans as visual metaphors
- Authors: Greyling, Wil-Merie
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Sculpture , Destruction , Restoration and conservation , Salt pans in art , Grief in art , Loss (Psychology) in art , Visual metaphor , Salt mines and mining Namibia
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437203 , vital:73352
- Description: This mini-thesis explores personal experiences during seasons of loss and grief using physical landscapes, specifically Namibian dense salt mining activities at the Cape Cross Salt Pans, as metaphors for devastation and restoration. Furthermore, the thesis investigates the connection between spiritual and physical landscapes through song and dreams to interpret personal experiences of loss and grief. The thesis explores how believers may find physical places of value outside the constraints of formal religious activities and how these experiences could evoke spiritual landscapes. The qualitative auto-ethnographical approach followed in this study proved an appropriate research methodology, explicitly involving observation and documentation of the physical landscape and reflection on personal experiences, such as dreams. In coming to terms with personal experiences of grief and loss, the individual results of the process were generated using methods such as retrospective reflection and observation. In my findings, I unpack how I found personal meaning from my creative and academic explorations. The metaphoric characteristics of dense salt blocks figuratively express ‘metamorphosis’, ‘weeping’, and ‘growth’. My findings include that one can represent healing and restorative elements with artistic value. The Namibian salt mining industry is typically removed from artistic activities and expression, but I succeeded in forging an atypical relationship with the industry players in an area of the salt block mining industry. In my practice, I explored the character of mined resources, in this case, dense salt blocks, by changing their inherent properties from low-value commercial minerals into unique art objects. In the process, I examined the metaphoric associations that organically mined material, in this case, salt blocks, may hold. Therefore, I link personal creative storytelling to a site with spiritual and sacred values and thus become a place to come to terms with loss and grief. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art, 2023
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- Date Issued: 2023-10-13
Carved wood and brass statuette of an African woman
- Date: 2022 , 2022-10-05
- Subjects: Bam, Brigalia , Sculpture
- Language: English
- Type: Sculptures , realia
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/56864 , vital:57196
- Description: Carved wood and brass statuette of an African woman with earrings and decorative neck and head jewelry. , Donated/gifted to Nelson Mandela University Archives , Forms part of: Brigalia Bam collection
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- Date Issued: 2022
The African heritage in music and in art
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Technical College, Pretoria, Transvaal (Gauteng), South Africa , BP Southern Africa , African Heritage , Music , Art , America , Facing the Music , Problem , Population , Political crisis , Values , Tradition , Speech , Changes , Damage , Symbols , Phsychology , Education , Missionaries , Prejudice , Interdepence , Understanding , Intangibles , Material objects , Huts , Hoe , Spears , Legend , History , Sculpture , Trees , Carving , Wood carving , West Africa , Moralising , Basutholand , Medical murder , Lumumba , Congo , Kanyoka , Salisbury , Drinking , Fooding , Dancing , Churches , General Education Conference , Heritage , New York , American negro , London , Evaluation of arts , Father Andre Fernandez , Dark , Chosen people , Ideal , Year of change , Inter-dependence , Demands for independence , Statue , Politics
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Lecture , Music
- Identifier: vital:15099 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008527 , Reel number: BC130, BC171, BC172
- Description: Lecture presented by Hugh Tracey at the General Education Conference, Technical College, Pretoria, South Africa , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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The Sound of Africa: The best recordings of 1953 - Osborn Awards
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Osborn Awards , Dr. Tom Osborn Memorial Foundation , French West Africa , Dance , Xylophone , Malinke , Kankan , French Guinea , Chopi Timbila , Musique de Fete , Baoule , Matriachy , Atiegoakro , Flute , Flute Tunes , Nigeria , Drum , Hour glass drum , Kokoro , Congo , Ekonda , Iboko , Singing , Yo-yo-yele yo-yo-le , Friction stick , Likembe , Hand piano , Guitar , Violin , Double bass , Mwana aboyi mama , Lingala , Moslem , Swahili , Khartoum , Violins , Lutes , Flutes , Drums , Love song , The meetong of the Niles , Uganda , Kenya , Dar es Salaam , Northern Rhodesia , Zambia , Ndebele , Zither , Uthando Kwabanye , Lobola , Bride-price , Tonga , Mikonkobelo , Sticks , Drinking song , Muka Nakayongo , Musical bow , Gourd resonator , Mupanza , Nalowa , South Africa , Sotho , Basutoland , Lesotho , Sculpture , International Library of African Music , Anthropology , Giriyama Dance
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15068 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008496 , Reel numbers: BC045, BC046, BC047, BC048
- Description: 13th programme in ‘The Sound of Africa‘ Series A of illustrated talks by Hugh Tracey on his travels in search of African music, broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation , Broadcast script and original reel recording have different dates, hence the two different dates provided in the date field , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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