In 2014 while busy with my Thesis I found a great distraction; editing photographs by taking out the sky portion and replacing it with parallel stripes. I started on a photo taken of Table Mountain in 2011. The photo was taken from the boat that we were taking to visit Robben Island. I loved the way that it turned out and decided to make more. I had the idea of creating a piece for each of the cities that I had visited, and given that we were living in East London, I decided to take a picture of the harbour and created the picture below.

With this being a great distraction, I often found myself spending hours editing photographs to create, what I have decided to term, Striated Skies. Pictured below is the bridge going into KZN that was taken on my Honeymoon, a picture of Garlic fields near Meiringspoort and one of the ‘hogs’ of Hogsback

I came up with the name ‘Striated Skies’ by looking for a synonym for stripe. The definitions are below.

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