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"I chose to force myself to look here at what it means to be a white South African woman artist in America and such far flung places for thirty odd years."

— Myfanwy Bekker

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"We, as artists, go along, searching for our own truth and so our collective creativity becomes our personal and cultural history. We are simply visual communicators.”

“In this show I want to talk about light and a type of fine tensile strength, perhaps a feminine strength, seductive but tough."

"It has always been the same refrain, really, the struggle to meld two selves, two deep senses of awareness, to make an acceptably sane harmony of the two (or three or four ...)"

"With the use of the organic juxtaposed with the hard edge, I want the pieces to balance and create their own zing .... and comfort me."

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