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| dc.contributor.author | Dreyer, Elfriede
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-05-08T06:48:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-05-08T06:48:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Elfriede Dreyer, Bitterbessie Dagbreek (2025) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32444 | |
| dc.description | The series follows on my ongoing exploration of the intermedial, semantic and hermeneutic relationships between work, image and sound. In this series there is no sound but the imagery evokes the sound of crackling fire. The works were inspired by Ingrid Jonker’s poems Bitterbessie Dagbreek and Op die Voetpad. The works extend my ongoing exploration of the shifting relationship between word and image, where meaning is never fixed but continually re-formed. The works developed from an artist’s book created as a visual response to these poems, which speak of loss and the solitary path each person takes in processing grief. I experienced the burning of my house, and Jonker’s imagery of the pine forest (in front of our house), the road (from the lake to our home), and dawn resonated deeply with my own lived experience. When morning breaks in red and orange after a traumatic event, the full impact of what has occurred becomes unavoidable. Existential metaphors emerge throughout the series: the road as the walk of life; daybreak as the searing moment after disaster; landscape as event; and the orange sky as an unfolding process of reckoning and becoming. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The Bitterbessie Dagbreek series of six works plus an artist book were commissioned by academic curator Professor Gwenneth Miller for the national Aardklop festival of 2025. I was then invited to exhibit the works at the Gallery at Glen Carlou in the Western Cape for subsequent exhibition. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Aardklop; Momentum. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Aardklop; Gallery@Glen Carlou | en_US |
| dc.subject | Research Subject Categories | en_US |
| dc.subject | Interdisciplinary Research Areas | en_US |
| dc.subject | Painting | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mixed Media | en_US |
| dc.subject | Intermedia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Work and Image | en_US |
| dc.title | Bitterbessie Dagbreek | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |
