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Elfriede Dreyer
- Feb 8
- 4 min
Creative wellbeing in a time of crisis
edg2020 Gallery launched last week (4 February 2021) in Kyalami. Several visitors commented that it was a brave step amidst the current new normals and closing of venues brought on by covid-19. Yes, it surely is, but covid lockdown has also been an exceptionally innovative and productive time for many artists and businesses. Consigned to the homefront in many instances, writers, musicians and artists turned more introspective and meditative, searching for new ways of thinkin
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Elfriede Dreyer
- Jan 16
- 3 min
Where Are We Going?
In a society marked by waning social bonds, a flood of epidemic bad news and a longing for the freedom of the past, a Romantic spirit in art is surging. It entails a vocabulary of yearning for another world, another time and another place. To transcend the present horizon becomes a goal and its achievement is inspired by possible better futures as well as past good times. No wonder the social media is flooded with stories of happier times in the past; the safety of parental s
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Elfriede Dreyer
- Jan 16
- 3 min
A fear not about that something terrible is going to happen, but about that NOTHING is going happen
Today, in the quiet of COVID-19 lockdown, I lost my sense of which day it was for the first time. I visited one of my favourite authors, J.G. Ballard, again, wondering what he would have said about all of this unexpected craziness, him being such a futurist and an acute observer of the world. In many of his dystopian novels and often in his interviews, he talked about our fear of the void: a fear not about that something terrible is going to happen, but about that NOTHING is
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Elfriede Dreyer
- Jan 16
- 2 min
So many days, so much online
COVID-19 has plunged us into an abyss of online posts, images, jokes, wisdom and the things people do to keep busy. But the way things are going now, online working and learning seem to be here to stay. It has probably changed the face of the interaction and exchange of knowledge, skills and business forever. Forbes says "when global health emergencies take place, they often bring to light gaps within the infrastructure of the world—and the workplace. It’s up to businesses to
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