for being connected to theatre, the theatre was betterfrom being connected to filmmaking. and you studied after you left south africa, you went to study mime and theatre in paris after you d finished your studies here in south africa. you came back and then you fairly quickly established a name for your drawings and prints. but you really only hit the international stage as it were in 1989, when you devised this very original way of drawing with charcoal on paper and then erasing it and redrawing it and filming and making into animated films. if you are drawing and you film it as it s being done frame by frame, the drawing comes into being but you can keep on the process of erasing and drawing and the drawing has a kind of movement. there were interesting combinations of this. one i think, temperamentally for me, it was interesting to find a way within artmaking to be able to show the world as process rather than fact. you can say, here s a table, do a drawing of a table,
thing and do it well . but you didn t take that advice did you? i tried to take it so well. you tried to be a bit of a jack of all trades. i tried it very well, thinking that was the conventional wisdom. do thing and do it well. if you re doing drawing, just do drawings. i gave up drawing. i tried to do theatre, only theatre. i came back from the studies and i was working in the studio, i found that in spite of myself, i was still interested in theatre and the drawings becoming films and only later did i understand that this cross pollination, this bastard form of partly drawing, partly theatre, mixing with music, was by far the richest way for any one of those forms. the drawings were better for being connected to theatre, the theatre was betterfrom being connected to filmmaking. and you studied after you left south africa, you went to study mime and theatre in paris after you d finished your studies here in south africa. you came back and then you fairly quickly established a name fo
and the political studies university, all of those feed and fed into the work that is done now. after you left university, you then studied art at a private art school and as you ve just outlined, you really were very active across a whole number of mediums. your friend said to you, look, william, do one thing and do it well. but you didn t take that advice did you? i tried to take it so well. you tried to be a bit of a jack of all trades. i tried it very well, thinking that was the conventional wisdom. do thing and do it well. if you re doing drawing, just do drawings. i gave up drawing. i tried to do theatre, only theatre. i came back from the studies and i was working in the studio, i found that in spite of myself, i was still interested in theatre and the drawings becoming films and only later did i understand that this cross pollination, this bustard form of partly drawing, partly theatre, mixing with music, was by far the richest way for any one of those forms. the drawings we
you tried to be a bit of a jack of all trades. i tried it very well, thinking that was the conventional wisdom. do thing and do it well. if you re doing drawing, just do drawings. i gave up drawing. i tried to do theatre, only theatre. i came back from the studies and i was working in the studio, i found that in spite of myself, i was still interested in theatre and the drawings becoming films and only later did i understand that this cross pollination, this bastard form of partly drawing, partly theatre, mixing with music, was by far the richest way for any one of those forms. the drawings were better from being connected to theatre, the theatre was betterfrom being connected to filmmaking. and you studied after you left south africa, you went to study mime and theatre in paris after you d finished your studies here in south africa. you came back and then you fairly quickly established a name for your drawings and prints. but you really only hit the international stage as it were in 1
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