So long, Eastern Mosaic…
In recent months I’ve replied to so many e-mails and messages from people enquiring about the demise of my former show, Eastern Mosaic, that I’ve decided to respond to some of their most frequently asked questions here – if anyone else has to ask. As some of you already know, Sunday the 24th of August 2014 marked the final broadcast of Eastern Mosaic – after nearly 14 years on air. Obviously Eastern Mosaic, or...
Man On Fire
The concept of ‘burnout’ from overwork or stress seemed like a foreign and unlikely prospect when I was in my 20’s and 30’s. Like so many careerists and over-achievers with big plans, I had set myself some lofty goals and was determined to realize them – and when you’re young and driven it simply doesn’t occur to you that there might be a physical or emotional toll to all that ambition and achievement. I guess I felt invincible!...
A Perspective Check
How about a healthy little perspective check? You know how some images leave an indelible mark and have the power to haunt you forever? I was still in high-school when I was first introduced to this photograph – and it’s been etched into my memory ever since. A bunch of us were studying in the school library when my best friend (of 26 years now) rushed over with a book that she had just discovered and enthusiastically pointed to this...
You Are Here
Nothing quite prepares you for when you behold the iconic Taj Mahal for the first time. Pictures and poetry don’t really do justice to its daunting scale, dignified grandeur and strange luminosity. Like a mirage, it completely messes with your visual perception, particularly of depth – because it almost appears to get further away as you approach it. And then, when you eventually ascend the steps to the imposing monument, you feel...
I Would Have Danced All Night!
A freak flooding of the basement storage of my former home in Durban resulted in the loss of many of my baby photos – but luckily I was able to salvage a few, including this one of me ‘busting a move’ on the deck of one of those ships that used to travel between South Africa and India in the 70’s. I’m not sure what the cherubic me was grooving to at the time this picture was taken. Probably the music in my head or my...
