Artist's statement:

The archaeological delving process is used as a metaphor for a personal, introspective delving and searching process.  This refers to my attempt to explore and uncover my personal history, background, cultural heritage and fundamental identity.  This personal search amounts to a process similar to a archaeological excavation.  During both processes, layers are discovered, each of which represents a particular ethos.  Gradually, as more and more layers are uncovered and as the search deepens, each archaeological as well as each personal "layer", reveals its interrelatedness and dualistic approach.  A holistic, comprehensive and clarifying narrative gradually begins to emerge, which connects all the separate layers and all the respective discoveries.  Archaeologically speaking, the narrative amounts to a chronological sequence of history, whereas personally speaking; the narrative unearths personal, but also a much wider implication.  It reveals the cultural strata that have shaped us into what we are today.  Thus the archaeological process exemplifies a search that impacts on humanity as a whole, so to speak.

This exhibition entailed the research for the MVA degree at the University of South Africa. Dr Elfriede Dreyer and Mr Koos van der Watt supervised the artist in her Masters studies.