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KAFKAESQUE AND BECKETTIAN

On his own images, Johann Louw comments:

Of importance: the sense of paint, and the pre-verbal directness that the experience of paint affords the painter. It is only from the experience of chaos that authentic language-making can be drawn, and the medium of paint functions as such a portal - to an interior space where cultural and societal restraints are erased - and it is in confrontation with this ambiguous space of sensual abundance and sensual emptiness, that visual language - the process of signification - is accomplished. ”

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