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I was born in Cape Town in 1970. Like many middle-class white children, I grew up unaware of the evils of the apartheid system which reached their darkest period during the 1970's and 80's. Political oppression is at its most sophisticated level when it has existed for several generations. By then its system has become integrated into every level of the individual's intimate world and systems of relating to surroundings. My work often centres around personal dilemmas in which there is a discord between the natural impulse and the gesture.