Notes

“I have a sense of having lived many,
many times on this earth.
I have fleeting memories and visions of
landscapes and cities.
When I walk through museums, I am
drawn to this greater memory of Self
which extends far beyond human
existence.
When I work on my sculptures, they
reveal themselves to me.
I don’t feel that I consciously make them,
yet I know exactly how to make them.
It is as if I made them before, as if I had
been them before.
I am the lovers walking in the desert. I am
the solitary figure of Ulysses.
I am the floating Magdel spoons. I am the
Horse and Rider.
I am the Unearthed and the Sentinels
holding my world in focus.
All these people are on a journey and it is
my journey.
I cannot create anything that is not
myself.
I cannot experience what I have not owned.
Male or female, I am all.”

—Deborah Bell¹

^1. Deborah Bell in Pippa Stein (2004) Taxi-010 Deborah Bell, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, page 39.

Provenance

David Krut, Johannesburg, 2008.

The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection.

Literature

Juliet White (2010) Deborah Bell's Alchemy, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, illustrated on page 51.