Sitting down with wife and husband Dan Bakkes and Brendon Erasmus was a day well spent. They are the first two person interview I’ve done and it worked really well I think. You may know them as “The Great Yawn” or their latest endeavor “Khakoon” (Cocoon). They are both talented in a multitude of ways, from cooking, baking, painting, playing multiple instruments and the list probably goes on. I can probably fawn over them the whole day, but let’s get to the day I spent with them.
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Pandemic Stories//Lize du Toit
Lize is a mom, wife, painter, copywriter, editor and a student of film to name just a few. In her own words: “I’m a painter interested in the human condition – specifically the effects and causes of loneliness as part of a larger inquiry into identity and the psychological aspects of living in an over-socialized, saturated world”.
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Pandemic Stories//Elna Schutz
Elna Schütz is a South African freelance journalist. She has a particular interest in health and human rights journalism and in our current pandemic these two things are front and center. Elna has worked in journalism in some way or form for the past ten years, starting in radio and podcasting and is the founder of Podmeet, a networking and support project for the podcasting industry.
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Pandemic Stories//Jenna Burchell
Jenna Burchell is an artist that to me blurs the lines between the digital and physical realm. Once again I am at a loss for words on how to exactly describe what she does, so I’ll take a short excerpt from her bio.
”Jenna Burchell is an award winning South African artist who is driven to find ways to preserve the fragile and ephemeral nature of memory and experience. Burchell often fuses the digital with the natural world in order to create vessels, archives and libraries where in the historical is subverted with narratives from the periphery”.