66 Square Feet: Three musketeers

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Three musketeers

Bainskloof, circa 1991.

Me, Fran, Jessica.

New York, Cape Town, Milan.

4 comments:

Beence said...: Well then, I shall be D'Artagnan. :-); June 3, 2009 3:29 AM
Marie said...: To be d'Artagnan you have to send a photo from 1991...; June 3, 2009 9:44 AM
Fran said...: I missed this one and just happened upon it now - those were the days!! it was fun! one day we'll have to have a reunion! x; June 12, 2009 6:58 AM
Marie said...: Fran! Yes - I don't think I've ben back since then. No, Lie, I did when I was at opera school, with an English girl who couldn't handle the boulders.

xxx; June 12, 2009 7:09 AM

Manifesto

What is 66 Square Feet About?

It's about gardening in tight spaces. It's about how to live with a man and a cat in a tiny apartment with a tiny terrace. It's about photos, and friends, and inspiration and blackspot on the roses. It's about food and cooking over an open flame. It's about wine. And water. And watering...And picnics. It's about seasons without and within. It's about New York, and about South Africa. It's about where I go, and what I come back to: a terrace twelve-and-three-quarters by five-and-a-quarter feet wide.

Afterwards in the street, she looks around the neighborhood. "Yes, it is certified now."

She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere."

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

"Die kierie kom uit Indonisie, gesny van 'n tak wat van jongs af omslinger was deur a wildevy se rank. Hulle het saam grootgeword, en die rank het sy spoor op die tak gelos. Daarom is die slinger ook oneweredig, en hier,"se hy, "by die punt van die kierie moes daar iets gebeur het - die slinger en die tak het inmekaar gevleg en 'n knoop gemaak. Die natuur het die kierie so gemaak."

"n Kieriemaker sou dit eweredig gedoen het," se ek.

"My kind," se meneer Boje, "vermy die reguit lyn."

Petra Muller, Koendoes