My work has recently been inspired by TS Eliot, a modernist poet and writer. Among his themes is the boredom and horror of modern existence. The landscape in which I have grown up has been formed by the motivations and desires of the people that have lived here, which I suppose can be categorised as the bourgeoisie. There is a certain ’placelessness’ or universality here that seems to be characteristic of modern suburbs. As the landscape has appropriated from the modernized ‘West’, it has lost some of its ’South African-ness’. Intermixed with these relatively new modern influences is the spectre of the ’old’. I am often struck by the seemingly haunting nature of the older elements, that of the sky and the vegetation.