Public Art

Homage to Hermes, permanent slate installation, Apple Mac Head Quarters, Johannesburg (2009)

Homage to Hermes, permanent slate installation, Graaff Reinette (2009)

Homage to Hermes, permanent slate installation, Damme, Belgium (2010)

Homage to Hermes, permanent slate installation, Whistler, Canada (2010)

The Homage to Hermes is a sculpture made by stacking stones. The sculpture is made in edition of 4, there is one in the karoo, one in Belgium, one in Vancouver Canada and one in Sandton, Johannesberg. The work was not meant to be a commercial venture, as it is so large in stature. It's an enormous monument but instead of standing up and promoting something of grandeur it is lying on its back, flat without any movement, as if just lying on a green lawn. The stone stacking is mankind's oldest way of marking an important spot or building anything as such. Homage to Hermes, is in particular reference to the roman practice of stacking stones on a heap of stones on a cross road outside of town as a Homage to Hermes. Hermes being the mythology god that we can feel we relate to as artists being the god of weight and measure, boundaries, travels, the liminal, a trickster, traveller at night, bringer of dreams, bringer who allows the imagination the space to prosper.