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(gentle music)

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(radio buzzing)

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- I like the idea of a radio.

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'Cause I grew up in an age of the radio

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where I was when I was a child.

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(gentle music)

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It allows one to imagine

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as opposed to giving them
everything or almost everything.

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(people chattering)

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Sometimes, it's always
good to just take a risk

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and just draw a line.

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From there, the image builds itself.

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So this is like the ignition,
allowing the process to guide.

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I find it to be an approach
that sets me on the right foot.

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It allows me to drift free.

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- Nicholas is an interesting
person, you know?

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So he doesn't give you the instruction

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like you have to do the work and finish.

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He engages with you also while
you're working, you know?

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So it's better to work,
work, then do other things,

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then come back to work.

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Then, when he's around, then he tells you,

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hey, you can go this way, you know?

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- I tell the people who are
assisting me to do the work

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to always just have fun with it.

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Don't be too serious about it,

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'cause when you try to be
too serious, you won't do it.

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It's a waste of your time.

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(soft ambient music)

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I make these lines, the
lines are easy to make,

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but then how you get to force those lines

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to assume some new role,

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you do it almost child-like.

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It brings something to the fold.

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You get to learn something from it.

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Occasionally I make a sketch,
especially for sculptures,

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I make a sketch, so
that's what I have to do.

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But most of the time, I
always go into the idea

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of working with a word, with a theme,

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'cause I believe a word,
especially nouns and even verbs,

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they relate to objects
and what objects do.

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This is a heel of a shoe last.

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For this painting, it's
gonna be named Fak'unyawo,

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as in insert your foot,

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like testing the water sort of thing,

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or stepping up from that.

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That's Xhosa.

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It's faka, which means insert, plus foot.

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So it's faka unyawo,

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but should make it one word, Fak'unyawo.

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(bright gentle music)

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It's important to go astray.

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'Cause if you are in a
foreign city and you get lost,

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then you'll discover some
alleyways and some avenues

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that you will not necessarily discover

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had you been placed on the right path.

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The silent wind orchestra.

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Initially, they musical instruments.

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I thought to have them
in one of the canvases.

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And that idea grew that, actually,

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they could stand by themselves.

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They are wind instruments.

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If we have these elongated
brass and copper tubes

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that are connected to
the trumpets, the bugles,

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they will still be music instruments.

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And we had to somehow shift

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that notion of music instruments.

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And also perhaps, would
be used as a metaphor.

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If you think about blowing your own horn,

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you're too ambitious.

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(dreamy music)

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Listen to what's happening around you.

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You become a little antenna

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that is allowing everything to flow.

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Some things pass and you grab
the ones that are important.

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(singing in foreign language)

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Keeping all your doors open,
that's what's important.

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(dog barking)

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(insects chirring)