Strauss & co - Wits Art Museum

WITS ARTS MUSEUM ENDOWMENT AUCTION 27 17 JeremyWafer (b.1953) Stones # 10 Black and white digital print 20 x 20 cm Edition 2/15 2004 Donated by the artist R15 000 – 20 000 Jeremy Wafer has been concerned with space and place, mapping and inscription in relation to the landscape or a larger ‘cosmoscape’for many years. In this photographic series, one of his major forms of expression, he makes images that focus on microcosmic elements of the landscape. They speak not only to the enormity of the cosmos, but also to processes of mapping minutiae. In this work a single, gleaming white stone, luminescent in its presence and casting a shadow towards the viewer, stands out against the pebbled, dusty ground inhabited by smaller stones, like satellites around a cosmic body. It also reminds us of white beacons as markers or boundaries of place or of stones marking a trail across a particular space. The stone’s apparent mundane nature is completely transformed by very close looking. Wafer teaches Fine Arts at Wits, is represented in many public and private collections in South Africa, and has work in the National Museum of African Art in Washington.  AN