Notes

"After the theatre production Faustus in Africa! I made a series of drawings of 'colonial landscapes,' for which I used engravings from accounts of European explorers to Africa as the source for a visual language for the drawings. I was interested partly in the translations, the temporal and geographic dislocations, that happen in the journey from explorers' sketches to the vision of Africa elaborated as these sketches were translated by professional engravers in London. These images then returned to South Africa, where they appeared in the second-hand bookshops of Johannesburg. Reeds was derived from a detail of one such engraving."¹

¹ Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn (ed.). William Kentridge Prints. David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg, 2006, page 54

Literature

Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn (ed.). William Kentridge Prints. David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg, 2006, illustrated in colour on pages 54-55