COME TO PASS : Fritha Langerman and Katherine Bull Landmark

About COME TO PASS : Fritha Langerman and Katherine Bull Landmark

The work draws attention to the absence of women in the colonial record and is in the form of 6 glass, steel and aluminium discs, 6 engraved, cast ‘drain covers’ and 24 glass cat’s eyes. It embraces a system of taxonomy and identifies 6 distinct occupations that have been instrumental in the evolution of the Cape cityscape. Each occupation has a particular spatial relationship to the crossroad of Shortmarket and St George’s Street. The drain covers are engraved with ‘archival’ information relating to each occupation. Engraved text plates on the cat’s eyes are numbered as units of time and named with the 24 individuals participating in the project. The glass discs are dated, named and have a central composite portrait created from 4 women named in the cat’s eyes.