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the malleability of feeling

It was amongst a congregation of stools, chairs and benches that I experienced the most vulnerable moment I can attribute to design. I was seated on a collectible work of art by ceramicist Andile Dyalvane. Other guests to Southern Guild Gallery that morning were settled (meaning ‘ancestral dreamscape’ in isiXhosa), this evocative exhibition of 18 seats, first revealed last year in the rural village of Ngobozana in the Eastern Cape, where he was born.

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