The World Sure isn't Perfect

We live with violence all around us and I know so many people who have been victims of all types of violence. Today I almost became one more. It is not the same as when it happens to some one else. You just can never know what it really feels like till you experience it. I manged to get away unhurt by the drunken thugs who tried to mug me, but it left me shaken. What worries me most it that it brought out the violent side in me. Which I am sure everyone has. Buy a gun, get a pepperspray etc etc I started thinking. Strike back!! ....What am I thinking? Why do we have to live like this?

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Durban Rain, Sketch pad drawing.Pen on paper.

I was asked by the curator Derek Zietsman, to participate in this show. He chose four of my recent woodcut prints Brief artist’s statement on the works: All four prints speak directly to the theme of kakotopia and reflect a sense of unease, foreboding, and discomfort in a world where things seem to be falling apart. 1. Dark Street reflects my engagement with an area adjacent to my studio. My aim was to echo its sense of unease, foreboding and discomfort. 2. Waiting is based on things I see and people I come into contact with whilst walking through the town’s hustle and bustle (to my studio). I am interested in the gritty underbelly of my city rather than the “surf-city –holiday destination” image commonly associated with Durban. 3. Limping Buffalo is a metaphor for the state and a social comment on events associated with the #Feesmustfall student unrest in 2016. 4. There is a Buffalo on the Roof comments on our so...

Coloured Wood Blocks

Fluchtelinge (Refugees), wood block, acrylic paint, ink, final colours. Fluchtelinge (Refugees), wood block, acrylic paint, ink, initial colours Looking Out, woodblock, acrylic paint, ink.

John Roome

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