in our own workshop and as a role model for many and not just with remax. next on the would be to us that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on dw the. today we're visiting the studio over and down south african access line estimates. pub gallery posts workshop. it is where he conceptualize is and produces, his captivating painting, sculptures and multi media works. but 1st, elizabeth, if i, you know what to say as how she was with into fabulous signature in nigeria.

we find out how ice cream has changed the life of 10 to my cold from. so let's, so then we hear how d j. know me from the connect to sleep. the i think is bringing african beats to dogs leathers. i'm finally sat there in bed and you're watching the app remax the and that's, that's who was the landlord country in southern africa that captivates. so if it's montane, as landscape and cultural heritage that runs camp. well no, no merchants is an urban k. thank brand, infusing a blend of tradition and modernity interior designs re gaming their heritage.

in this fashion, collective is taking control of their cultural heritage by designing modern speech where while reclaiming ownership of culture items like the traditional positive blank how can we call them bust? we 2 blankets when they're not made in this beautiful mountains up to so to we have to be able to own the narrative from design to production to the raw material use cases as well as the economic opportunities that comes with it. but a couple of by 5 k beautiful blanket flowers is a term that is often been used in reference to us. so to the humble blanket made his transition from vick covering to fashion item. when king refresher 1st received one as a gift from the 1st petition missionaries who settled in the country that was then also to man. the popular sufficient fabric was 1st printed and exported from germany, but no, no use to. so tool is a sort of an umbrella to him for the us,

but not to mention is a platform that we want to use to communicate. stories from this was told by of us what to do is we, we are doing using uh through the medium affection we have said the if i have been to expand the incoming industry and this would be kind of say the same about the fishing industry, especially little kind of patient. so we identified that as a void, that needs to be tablets, initially cannon and then i, me and his partner set up a huge factory from where they managed the entire production chain. 5 and 2017. they realize they needed a drastic change. that's when we started developing a model that came with something sort of a mix of the lien and as a model, and this is totally based on our the truck this not an old couch or uh, uh,

fence. we have him window quote, let's see. this is more like a crowd funding that people come to get uh, aid quintillion towards a task and accomplish it together. the centralization of the production has meant that to the 9 he was able to focus on styling and logistics was spinning skills and giving opportunities to create a number of smaller local artisans to practice. we took the same models and said ok, now gave me one to develops. for instance, a blanket. it is someone who specializes in design at techs buying and printing to someone who is a profess, neither in classic design, where we develop the patterns. there's someone who is a professional in the seem to give them. so we take this 3 professionals and put them together to develop a blanket. we can think for

a use of a explained funds to use and we can see where do could you please put no, no pin to mainly what we call order of or last from i think for them they've been content the been designs we bring that take them because keep us of printed, we produce many different types of government, so we would collect their breath as, pardon us. i don't know, i'm too close. but i think we're good that team when she moved in this help us at law, do you know those guys the court, something that they needed today we can move them at the proof to my work suite means the re says 10 blankets would be so 20 blankets each one of these professionals is able to benefit from that. in that we,

i mean there's no limit to what we can do. who is out there telling us what the stories these we do through some of the products that we develop. we have, for instance, something like this, this is a scuff. we call it a legacy of mental. so wasn't profit, rain may come, i would say also a fight. so we said she was able to weigh many crowns. so when we send you this product, which is us. gov, it goes along with the story. as more africans across the us for engage in issues around their identity. the efforts of creat has bye to them and i need towards free appropriate in their culture is going to have an indelible mark on future generations. african fishing is making the protests in our culture and that's something that can not be corporate. and of course there's,

there's been a lot of appropriation of our cultural identities. but these are some of the things that can only be told by africans. now that african st fashion act, it's best locates as a highly acclaimed south african office. his work explorers and catches the essence of individual ality and diversity. through his paintings and sculptures, he expose the human condition, threefold provider, king and visually striking works of us. and it's joining me now is the man himself lacking though i know it's such a pleasure to be had no growing up, watch all who was an influence for you to pursue ok, and how did you end up becoming primarily as comp. so why and i grew up with my father being a scouts and so obviously that's something that was very influential trying up in the studio and just being in that environment i think can spine me a lots and you know, one thing they turned out and i ended up doing and as

a multi disciplinary odds, as housing do you decide where the project pays to become a painting or sculpture? well, that's an old gammy process that i follow and usually it because it's a painting that becomes the sculpture or vice versa. but in thinking the end of the day, it's become quite evident to me that they have a, they've overlap quite a bit. you know, and, and the paintings seem to become scope phones coast seem to become, you know, painfully in an appliances a y applied. you've got such a beautiful space. what went into designing and i worked with an architect to a time and send who was the architects in and, and, and put together the whole idea of the design. and um, you know, it, it's part of a heritage sites and he, in a being a heritage architect. so it's, it's all worked very well. and kevin, what sustainable features do you have within the structure? all the trees that for all the blue gum trees that removed. yeah,

that's the on the building side for all re purpose them and used in the building the stays and became kind of like part of the main elements of woods inside the building. um, you know, you truly do have such and create a beautiful pieces and conway to catch up with you again later. thank you. elizabeth if i in our to from nigeria is causing a nice for herself in the traditionally male dominated industry of wood work, demonstrating her skill, create 70 and determination to make it in the field that was once off limits. what does he take the deal with? elizabeth, define who i would, who knows best the nature of my business is mailed to me, said doctor neville walters a month and that has been quite difficult to such different me so and so my number to call me because i have to do this man. so my cellphone said as the size of the

old man, so there's always the need. so don't forget where se elizabeth has carved unused for her. so literally hers was not an easy task put away worth while. i thought that would walk in precisely or was to interest rein, say, i stuff it into an all conventional wait. i had a dream where i saw myself in the me. so what i'm asking the font on the drain. i saw the opportunity on southern business. once i started, i actually had no knowledge of the world. i can lend everything as i gain more experience in the field. so, so far it says not just being the business aspect for me is being for the business . and also the physical us is because i also indulge myself in it. yeah, we have a life ed slott buttons from a client who brought this over to the walk show for us to al savvy. just so we're

trying to save this world can be brought back. our life isn't multiple form of expression and culture and friday from 9 am days bucks at 12 central. however, one of the major challenges i'll just go to is sort of source and for all i use i, i saw them locally. nigeria. all this was from different specialties of 3. this is important for me. mongol slot. so here we have the wine rack. there's a gear were owned by the ocean content. yeah. my reception, this is neat of. well not. so yes, i have a chair made up from my old and it's a rocking chair, but most likely use 5 elderly people. so i looked encourage furniture pieces for the older one i have selling ice and the life edge dining tables because yeah,

mostly so after every one dining table for me i have um 3 prominent baths. i also have um, so contracts is south home on when needed. i prize my leases on the amounts of a 4th. i put the same service sofa being in this business. it is a 3 is now and ever seen the, i think looking for me is i've been really invested back into the business. so being the purchase. so we've been in business space challenges that sometimes to isn't the tall chest present for at least the best for winter. so that the old goals for the mind can do a little bit that elizabeth has not given up any time. so i am actually most attacks that i delegates uses to each member of my team. we have to

sustain time. we have the treatment time. the drain times also have referred option time, where we have the grinding some say frame finishing process. my advice for young women as far as the voice mail to me that feels like mine would be that they should be living in. they should be very ad walking. i remember when i started at i will that leads back and i see why this keeps pushing. when i had no customer on the 1st lines i had saved way for me because the enabled me showcase my talent for designs that live into the eyes. and she's in duction why elizabeth is not so for those patients and women inspirational for anyone who is detained in 19. yeah, a. ready wooden furniture was the same, and in fact,

elizabeth is such an inspiration as thinking about women line. oh, what an incredible representation of the female phone. thank you. you have described find houston by optic relationship between paintings and sculptures. do you mind delving deeper into that? is i think i come from kind of like a sculptural background but ended up going more into printing. so i think to me that 3 and i mentioned on the form is always something in the back of my head. well printing. and then when i returned back to sculpture, i think a lot of that painting influence going to into my scopes really. so i think the why i have time certain things that were like i started making things that looked like brush strokes and then using that to actually sculpt with. and you know, vice versa. now you've already spoken about some of your influences, but what are the influenza is? do you have in terms of autism in your work?

i think i've been in chronic eclectic mix of people that influenced me, you know, from the classical renaissance period to, you know, people that are very contemporary at the moment. i think i tend to type the bits and pieces that inspire me. so, you know, i feel like i've started kind thinking this and looking at something that's perfectly fine, same time. so i think uh, you know, a lot of different things. definitely evidence within your space. and finally, where else can we find some of your works and exhibitions, while log book categories in south africa, i wrote read in cape town and canonsburg. and then you know, i'm was exhibiting as the southern make sure to be in belgium at cube gallery. oh. well, thank you so much line and for having me. thank you so much for being an ice cream years cream. even the presidents of south africa is screams for his ice cream. meantime, the, the ice cream man straight out of the way until was to take his left for this

phrase and deserves to the world. this is the stuff, the dreams all made of wood. the $350.00 ran social relief of distress turned them up to be started, so wait to cranberry, an ice cream. paula that is employed full people. the the creamery has even reach the is of south africa's presidents. remo pulls up so when the president spoke about as far as can pot, uh it was crazy. it was under your control. like a dream. you know? what started as a snap by d. o. well, surfing the web has turned into a crowd pleaser. those ice cream paula not only attracts the neighborhood, speak to, but continues to be a hi, fun social media. professionally, i'm a session designer. i didn't really want to confession,

i was confused. i didn't have a mentor, but my mother said i need to go into fashion. so i just went to and i made rooks. after that, i stumbled cause a talk receipt. and i, for the end of with it's because it was much less i would then session and i presume i'll talk with the professional photographer. it didn't proceed as pride to joe when he has to look for alternative t been photography due to the law in orders in 2020 during the locked down 5 for the tween screens. he does not work for hot chocolate feet because we're focusing more on events. and there's a noise defense, so noises no work. so i had to try and find an alternative. i thought said the ice cream parlor using the $350.00 to the end. at least the bronze issued by the government's shooting that closely pandemic. the reason

why i got an ice cream parlor is because i really know of ice cream and people who know me, you know, that's allow food me 40. and i didn't really think about it sits in the terms of finding a business. it was almost like an experiment. so i was just trying it out. the people who helped me in the extreme part of as my family man, by the way, that my system, well no problem and in the working to get those people close to the makes things easier because they're able to understand the vision of the ice cream part of their product have 10 percent of the business. she wasn't working man and for those of school i was a school. so the 1st business actually to coast from when we wait where we are now seems to kind of business. there's always the date of great. yeah. as come to me is excitement as come to me. it's fun,

as continues from the as come to me is friendship. so how ice cream kind of became. so pop, you know, as social media, when i was shooting, i'd created relationships with the influence of suicide. and then pre cheese and what one of the people that we met by is more highly and won't go at that. the time is instagram was approaching 1000000 photos really had to create a relationship with him. lots of images of the ice cream to him to life did see to came through the posted images of our as clean. then after that we just blew out the i felt like anything is possible. so in, you know that, that i, people, then when you leave in the vision, just for grades, that's while it's happening, it's working well,

the reason why people run to take good images of the ice cream, it's an experience. it's not really liked, very good ice cream. you just have an ice cream, but do you want to share that experience with the free and then obviously you in the shade potential of some new customers. it does, it did really good if say in terms of when it's hot, like in to never and it's good. i don't know anyone who doesn't like, i mean it's definitely it's a 5 star rating. this has almost inside of it that makes it a lot beds and i haven't seen an ice cream like that. i think that there isn't an ice cream caught up in africa. that's his ice cream. that's we sort of, if they can notice this very and how it's created, it's almost like

a mazda piece. uh, when our customers receive our ice cream, they don't immediately the, to the images office and in the troy's off to us. i think it's important to have a place take this in my community to actually start by showing people who is the in the township that's it's possible to create something out of nothing. how ice cream pie to cause a place we. we bring people together with a it's friends, relates family so many see ice cream as a desert tunnel and the family have proven that it is so much more ice cream now. and so wait till it's something with dreams, memories and successes on may with it. just shows you that with a little creativity and determination. anything is possible. now imagine starting

an african music, collective in berlin and in so doing, overcoming the challenges of being a woman. and the male dominates a, d, j, and m c world. well, the j normally is doing exactly that and rocking the global stage as a needing effort, beads de, jane, nigerian, afro beats, and golden canoe or the newest south african house tracks. the 1st quartz back celebrates african rhythms. the jays, naomi, and mr. wallace are the main club acts tonight. as part of the sleek to last week music collective, they've been hosting afro parties in germany for 10 years to the left and said, yeah, i have to have it in the last 10 years after beads have definitely become a must in every club at every about the end of of a month, whether it's south african um, a piano, so have to pay the cali. don't below anything. the little is of alice.

the new club music from africa has galvanized the club scene when wallace and naomi launched their 1st berlin clubs series ro here. they also wanted to create a safe space where people of color vicki and when we went out back then there was a kind of quote of what they'd say, i mean we already have 10 percent flags. that's enough for today. and so lots of things like that are too many starks to me, airbus in order to, to we just wanted an evening where it didn't matter. it's 99 percent of black and star 99 percent church within spots. and all the main thing is to celebrate and love this sound. okay, i'll talk to dan, it's good on. what do you mean? it's all done. ok. sexual orientations, gender, age, or origin from the stars. these having mattered at their parties, what counts is shared passion for new african music. and it's contagious.

frankie, last week are now a fixture on the berlin club scene, and also play the really big electronic events with their own sound system. forming an african music collective in berlin is one thing. holding your own as a woman in a male dominated d, j and m c. c is something else. but no, me is now one of the few internationally recognized afro beats the james this is this. it was really, really tough at 1st. the guys didn't take me seriously at all because they wouldn't even say hello as a vendor. when someone booked me and i showed up, they were like a woman intact. no way to kind of nice. but when they saw what i could do, they welcomes may not be so kind in the last 10 years. they've taken me seriously thing. so i have to go to the, i don't have them instead of asking them good side down the street. the last week has also been producing its own arrows down for several years. they promote new

talents on their label, and no me is happy to support them with video shooting tips. okay, what do you say can do more with your hands? do more. oh, okay. yeah. more like math. i'm it, i'm it. they're also bringing the berlin app provides back to africa. you don't have the full but we want to bring this app provide everywhere that there are still too few people enjoying it a lot. and i think it's also a good way to break down barriers. some of also between nation enough to bonuses mean there's nothing better than connecting people through music picture. another 5 2nd thing was the 2200 to along with the internationally booming arrow beads freaked to last week are also spreading the word about other types of modern african music. a bonus, not only for the berlin clubs seen

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