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project description End of the World (Cape Point), 2004

Cape Point, at the southern tip of South Africa, was once believed to be the place where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet. It is one of those places that reminds us of our transience. End of the World (Cape Point) is a visual echo of that exchange. At Cape Point, I sensed, in a moment of intense spiritual awareness, the meeting between mortality and immortality.

The end of the world, like a thief in the night, can come at any moment. It cannot be owned or known yet, paradoxically, it is solid, ever-present, for the end is included in ‘now and forever’. There can be no doubt that the end of anything has an attraction and beauty of its own; a calm inevitability, or the promise of renewal.

Charge (detail)
Tshwane, South Africa
Lambda prints on aluminium
56 x 300 cm
2004



While waiting in the charge room at the Sunnyside Police Station in Tshwane to report a crime, I noticed the walls.They seemed to be a silent testimony to the history of the room and those who passed through it.