2014
Venue: Katie and Pieter du Toit’s farm Rietfontein between De Aar and Hanover, Great Karoo
Measurements: 40 metres (length) X 5.9 metres (width)
Materials: 160 large bags of firewood, 50 bales of straw, 1 drum of diesel fuel, 110 litres of fire gel, lime/chalk
Fire extinguisher truck on standby
Artwork text on the ground: “Piss-off!” with typeface in Arial bold
Assistants on site
Katie and Pieter du Toit
Klara-Marié den Heijer (measurements and scale of text)
Miné Kleynhans (event coordinator)
9 Students of the University of the Free State
Photographic prints
1. EARTH SIGNAL chalk lines
2. EARTH SIGNAL stacked wood
3. EARTH SIGNAL white ash
Printing: Silvertone International, Johannesburg
Film and documentary
Wicus de Wet (Aerial Scope Imaging with drone filming)
Jaco Spies (on-site video)
Jürgen Marx (editing)
Jaco Spies, Karen Boshoff (production)
Documentary film in progress