(2003). Critical language and visual art: a post-structural analysis. de arte: Vol. 38, No. 67, pp. 47-63.

In distinctive ways, Lyotard and Heidegger enable one to understand the unusual interplay between texts and images, or language and iconography, encountered in installation art. In this article, Lyotard's notion of figure and Heidegger's figure of the fourfold are employed to come to grips with the multi-installation, Body 11: Sublimation, presented at the 2002 Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) in Oudtshoorn.

Film critic and historian Gilbert Adair, in his study of representations of the Vietnam War, (1981:10) suggests that American attempts to 'deal with' Vietnam in visual narratives either failed to fit neatly into the dominant strategies of narrative closure, or were simply too crudely resolved to signify any real coherence or understanding.

(2001). Art in South Africa: ‘redress’ through terminology. de arte: Vol. 36, No. 64, pp. 63-74.

In early 1999, a large-scale artwork comprised of twenty-four needlework panels was commissioned for the assembly chamber of the new legislative buildings in Riverside Government Complex in Nelspruit, the capital of Mpumalanga. Apart from including embroidery and appliques, all the panels contain beadwork and most some element of wirework.