Lien Botha

Lien Botha

South Africa

Amendment 2006

Amendment 1: the case of beginning at the end
Amendment 2: the case of the flowering drought
Amendment 3: the case of going Dutch in the desert
Amendment 4: the case of the absent lifeguard
Amendment 5: the case of the mute praise singer
Amendment 6: the case of waltzing with the moon
Amendment 7: the case of the boatless fisherman
Amendment 8: the case of the drowning river
Amendment 9: the case of the little white lie
Amendment 10: the case of the nyctalopic missionary
Amendment 11: the case of extinct threads
Amendment 12: the case of a crime less classic
Amendment 13: the case of justice as a poem
Amendment 14: the case of ending at the beginning

series of 14 triptych colour photographic
ink-jet prints

Letters to Linnaeus 1 & 2  2008

two triptych color photographic ink-jet prints
Courtesy of the artist

Amendment is a visual poem. It is a reflection and meditation on the environment – an ever-changing process that includes correction, addition, deletion, and amendment to what we know and see. The circular nature of the work seems to express the writer T.S. Eliot’s sentiment, “We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” (Little Gidding)

Letters to Linnaeus 1 & 2 were created specifically for this exhibition and are an addendum to Amendment.