Sculpting the wild: Discover A Sculptor's Paradise in South Africa

the blacksmith and artist Agnes Jones, who creates extraordinary organic sculptures in steel. For Agnes, white-hot steel has a surreal beauty because a thin layer of the surface melts, blurring its solid lines, like the top layer of a sandy beach on a windy day.)

Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Valhalla, an escapist’s Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just ‘home.’ It is all these things but one

TRULY, I love this life of seclusion. Carrying my staff, I walk toward a friend’s cottage. The trees in his garden, soaked by the evening rain, Reflect the cool, clear autumnal sky. The owner’s dog comes to greet me; Chrysanthemums bloom along the fence. These people have the same spirit as the ancients; An earthen wall marks their separation from

For them home was never a building, but rather a carefully curated territory that, because of its lack of farms, fields and fences, went unrecognised by Europeans.