Etched and enamelled

 The repetition of the plant image is like that of vetkats repetition of it, and also much like the scattering of plants in the desert.

I used the layering of enamel on copper on silver as a suggestion of the Kalahari Desert. The sand goes from white to coppery orange and is then splashed with some grey and green short grass. It is a world apart from our lush rain-forest-like vegetation in Kwa-Zulu Natal, And it is that unique "look" that allows me such vivid memories of the place and my times spent there. The way things look is ever more apparently the key to it's ability to be remembered.

Similarly, I used red/brown stained etched ostrich eggshell with fine silver wire as if to replicate a birds nest or the dry grass in which an ostrich eggshell might be seen.  The back of the pendant is blackened and glass fibre brushed sterling silver with some images of birds from Vetkat's drawings.
The pieces are not so much trying to copy the images and objects from my memory, so much as commemorating them, or getting the "feeling" of them, along with paying tribute to Vetkat who loved, lived, and in his drawings captured those places and things so well.