Pretoria at night. Its the greatest taboo.
Inge's mom was not even sure we would be safe with the cops.
But they made all the difference.
It was surreal to feel invinsible like this in the city.
I contemplated becoming a cop - were they the gatekeepers to this place?
'Point of Entry'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Steenhoven Spruit and Struben Street
'Street frequency'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Struben Street
'Steenhoven Spruit and Struben Bridge'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Struben Street
'Security and Cars'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Struben Street
'Kruger Park and one car'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Struben Street
'Turning at the green robot'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Sophie De Bruyn Street
'Slumber Tree of Street light Fire'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Struben Street
'Rebecca'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Struben Street
'Terror building'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Marabastad
'Residents of 5th'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
5th street Marabastad
'Ghost mosque on 5th'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
5th Street Marabastad
'Attention stares'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
5th Street
'Street Sigh'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Boom Street
'Clash Tower'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
Insert the dead facades. And we have a paving contradiction.
Where the buses climb the road and the pedestrian channel like cattle in the sewage.
This feels like a stadium of the night.
Spotlights onto the men in the shadows of the shops, here for a seat and conversation.
Framed as the hooligan and criminal murder.
He is poor and hungry.
'Patriots'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
'Water bearer'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
'Still the same cages'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
'Clumsy decor'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
'There are people sleeping there'.
'We must exit'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
'We will never leave'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
So we leave. Walking aimlessly and follow the light. Then we turn left into Grand Street where the end of the road and its blue disco light is ebbing something that sounds like a Gospel Chant Trance.
I finally see Steves, and its old radios in the window. Its the only shop with something that I might want to buy.
Then across from it is the pink door with green, the same colour of SHE's plastic paradise chair.
'Surface mud'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
1st Street
'Grand Parade'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Grand Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Grand Street
'Salon Salon'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Grand Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Grand Street
'Corner'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Grand Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Grand Street
'YBC'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Grand street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
Feb 24, 2015
Grand street
'Gospel Trance Pulse'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Grand Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Grand Street
'Corner 360 Diagram'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
10th street and Boom Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
10th street and Boom Street
'Ladt Rebecca'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
10th street
'She Door'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
10th street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
10th street
'Inhabitants'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Boom Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Boom Street
'Heading North to nowhere'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Belle Ombre Train Station
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Belle Ombre Train Station
'Totem to telling'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Mogul Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Mogul Street
The night becomes sleepy like us. And the city seems seen.
We see the land which is filled with edges for viewing and cradles the homeless in its womb.
So we stop less and we drive faster until we are back to the place where car is parked.
The police laugh at us thinking the car might be stolen , like they laughed when a stranger called out whiteys' .
'Question line"
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Struben Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Struben Street
'The outside'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
M1
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
M1
'The other way around'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
WF Nkomo
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
WF Nkomo
'Multi Directional'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
WF Nkomo
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
WF Nkomo
'Section of the night'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Struben Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Struben Street
'Asylum'
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Struben Street
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Ilze Mari Wessels
February 24, 2015
Struben Street
Suddenly there is a very good feeling about this place.
A shared one, not just my own collected ideas.
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