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...studio-mate James W. Heisey-Rotner ’04 have created an oasis in their Linden Street painting studio. A Johnny Mercer song plays on the radio as Nkosi brews a pot of tea. The walls of the studio feature black and white paintings depicting buildings in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Nkosi spent much of her childhood...
...inspired by a series of snapshots taken in Johannesburg this summer, she has begun painting buildings. This new project has required her to expand her painting methods. “Because there’s no other color I have to make really important choices about the tonal variations.” She points to a section of the wall covered with color swatches she has mixed and given names like “Alley Shadow” and “South African Concrete...
Nkosi has always been comfortable with different types of media. She graduated from the Johannesburg branch of the Waldorf School, one of a group of experimental schools worldwide. “It was just a very physical environment. You were always working with your hands,” she says. She learned knitting, basketmaking, bookbinding and weaving...
Nkosi’s ability to tell a story serves her well as a filmmaker. For her non-fiction video course, she is editing a video titled Crossing Night. For the past two summers, she has worked at Artists Proof, a community art studio in Johannesburg that specializes in printmaking. Nhlanhla Xaba, one of the studio’s founders, died in a fire while he was “crossing night,” or working all night in the studio. Nkosi’s film documents the creation of a project called “Reconciliation...
...JOHANNESBURG In the land of the braaivleis (barbecue), the Butcher Shop & Grille offers 550 g of prime rib-eye cuts, aged up to 21 days, with a choice of starches for the side-all for a welcome...