Land n Sand Oct / Nov 2013 | Page 56

ShifT
Sight,
&

Psychedelia
C M Y K.

image I was looking at, was not made up of
millions of printer’s ink dots. Instead it was
My first thought when I saw the glow-in-the- an interplay of luminous light, kinaesthesia
dark bodies frolicking and then freezing in and colour, serious sensory super-sizing.
front of the photographer’s lens.
Surreal and psychedelic!
Incredible how one’s mind always
searches for a known association when Or more accurately, psychedelic theatre.
confronted with a new stimulus. In a
former life I had worked as the production There in the studio on Mhondoro, on
editor of a publication and CMYK or cyan, Blaawklippen Road, were members of
magenta, yellow and black are the four ink The Psychedelic Theatre tripping the light
colours used in the printing process.
fantastic, covered in ultraviolet reactive
pigment creatively applied by airbrush
Except this three dimensional colour artist Martin Labotski of LoveUV.

Words: Erika Kruger, Images © Martin van Niekerk Photography

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