Katja Abbott
After completing a National Diploma in Graphic Design at the Cape Technikon, I worked for many years in the publishing industry as a book designer, illustrator, editor and project manager. To fulfill my desire to engage in hands-on art-making, as opposed to computer-based design, I embarked on a Bachelors Degree in Visual Arts through UNISA in 2015.
Artist’s statement
My art is a silver rabbit
foolishness trying to understand
It’s an ache for real, for life’s bitter ecstasy
for this is how it is
My art is a storm that
throws things around
Because it can
Because things want to be moved
My art is incomplete,
unwilling
a poem, a lament
It’s a hundred songs sung at the same time
luminous, discordant
My art is salvation
a temple
a balm for passion and confusion
a possession, an affliction
a cat that won’t be told or tamed
It is never good enough
or has time enough
It is impatient
like the flight of a thousand swallows
to the sun
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