Faith47 and DALeast spent some time in Australia recently at the Carbon Festival and also put together a »]]>

Faith47 and DALeast spent some time in Australia recently at the Carbon Festival and also put together a solo show at the RTIST Gallery. Here are some photos from the event.

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More about DALeast HERE.

What is your favourite childhood memory?

I have an early, elusive memory of my mother singing to »]]> by Alexia Webster

What is your favourite childhood memory?

I have an early, elusive memory of my mother singing to me around an open fire at night. She was singing to keep me from crying, but the song she sang was so sad it made me weep. It was about a princess who lived in a castle with her prince; she had a milk-white steed, a fine-feathered bed and many fine dresses. One night, three gypsies sang outside the palace gate. The highs and lows of their songs captured her heart, and the next morning she ran away with them. The prince searched for her day and night, and eventually found her sleeping in a cold, open field. He could not understand how she could leave her life of pleasures and wealth and exchange it for a life of poverty and living with the gypsies. She, of course, could not explain to him how she felt. But I understood. That song dug a deep tunnel into my heart. We lived in a hippy commune for the first few years of my life and that laced my childhood with a certain feeling; a mix of pine nuts and grass, goats, donkeys and water tanks, guitars and the night air, stars, voices, baked potatoes and salad, hand made toys, naked feet and forests.

Where would you go if you could go anywhere?

Right now, I think if I could choose any place on earth to go, I’d visit Peru.

Whats the strangest thing you’ve ever found lying around?

A dead, dry, completely flat cat. That was back in 2001, in Mitchells Plain. I was painting a wall with the NME crew. Mike tied a string around its foot and swung it around his head. Oh, and a penguin.

If you could go back in time where and when would you go to?

I think I would like to live amongst the North American Indians. They seem to me to be one of the old cultures that had a real understanding of how to live in harmony with nature, without imposing on it.

What do you think you were in a past life?

Oh I’ve been old, very old. I’ve also died young. I’ve been mean and unkind. In war. In love. Alone and blind. I’ve walked mountains. Spent months in prison. I’ve killed and raped. And I’ve thrown bones to tell the future. My children have carried me though countless deaths. Meak. I’ve been religious and I’ve denied the devil. I was in Japan, Norway and the Congo. I’ve been underwater and nested in high trees. I drank blood. I healed wounded children. I’ve been around and around in this circle, raised on high and subsequently diminished. Several times. We all have. I want to leave the circle now. I’m tired.

What makes you laugh out loud?

Seeing political voting street pole posters that have become the make-shift shelters of the homeless under bridges. That’s kind of a laugh. But also it’s not. And it’s not really out loud either.

If you were a tree what kind of tree would you be?

Now that’s a tricky question. I don’t think i could commit to an answer on that. Trees have a specific mood and it’s difficult for them to change, whereas my moods change so much. I think i’d need to be many trees.

The new Faith 47 book, available from Revolution, 223 Long Street, Cape Town.

Faith 47 – All shall be equal before the law (2 of 3) from Fly on the Wall »]]>

Faith 47 – All shall be equal before the law (2 of 3) from Fly on the Wall on Vimeo.

Bryan Little directs three segments as a contribution to Laura Gamse’s ‘The Creators’ featuring Faith47 during the making of her Freedom Charter series. This is Part 2, also featuring Keya Murphy…

The Freedom Charter from rowan pybus & faith47 on Vimeo.

Faith47 recently completed a body of works inspired by »]]>

The Freedom Charter from rowan pybus & faith47 on Vimeo.

Faith47 recently completed a body of works inspired by the Freedom Charter. This is her latest short video project with Rowan Pybus and it is super incredible! See more photos from this body of work and follow Faith47 on her Modart blog HERE.

Check out this interview with Cape Town’s Faith47 painting a 40 meter mural with artists Peeta, Indigo and »]]>

Check out this interview with Cape Town’s Faith47 painting a 40 meter mural with artists Peeta, Indigo and Titi Freak in Vancouver as part of The Paint Your Faith project and a full feature with all the artists HERE.

Juxtapoz have an interview up with artist Faith47, check it out HERE.

If you live in Joburg, keep a look out for this incredible work by Faith47. This is part »]]>

If you live in Joburg, keep a look out for this incredible work by Faith47. This is part of a continuing film project that you can view HERE. Also see Faith’s BLOG and SITE for more work.