006 - Growth | Ku Kula
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102 x 155 cm (40 x 60 in)
Acrylic on canvas
This painting features tracks from:
Genet, Banded Mongoose, Impala, Nyala, Warthog, Spurfowl, African Civet, Water Mongoose, Black-Backed Jackal, Bushpig, Vervet Monkey, Kudu, African Leopard, Helmeted Guineafowl, Aardvark, Lion, Spotted Hyena, Cheetah, Blue Wildebeest, Burchell’s Zebra, Chacma Baboon, and Nile Crocodile
About “Growth | Ku Kula”
Where you find plants, you find all manner of life. If you are seeking an animal in the bush, the best place to begin your search is with the communities of plants. Where you find the sycamore fig, you will find the African green pigeon and vervet monkeys. Where you find lush stands of common reed, you will find the wallowing “Dagga Boy”, a term for a large male buffalo (Dagga = Mud). There are sleeping lions in the sodic sites, feeding elephants at the marula trees, and bushbabies in the hallow mopane. The most spectacular textures and patterns of nature are created by the interactions between plants and animals. You cannot understand one without the other.
Growth = “Ku Kula” in Tsonga, the predominant African language from the region in which these tracks were collected.
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Artist’s Note
“Growth | Ku Kula features many of the smaller wildlife tracks that may not be at the forefront in other paintings of the Bushveld Series. While this piece boasts the prints of lions, leopards, and hyenas it is the genet, mongoose, and civet tracks that take the spotlight here.”
— CW
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