Creation Timeline
by Bridget Modema
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I know I am here to serve, to help, to educate. I will succeed in what I do, if I believe in my mission, my purpose will be so.
Your mind is your key, and I am standing in front of the most unearthed bewildering door that is ready to show me a journey, a journey that leads to the ultimate goal, that goal is to make art, heal others and share my skills and knowledge.
Where my hands touch there is healing, there is clarity, and there is love.
Why do I believe in this vision? Because the universe has created so my pathways that leads me again and again to the same vision and said it will be so. You are here to dedicate your life to serve, and you will serve through art. If you haven't figured out how yet, be sure I will remind you over and over again.
[2014]
Artworks Created:
- Digital Fractals series
- Digital Sound Wave series
Major Life Events:
- Studying at Tshwane University of Technology since 2013 where I was exposed to techniques in sculpture, glassblowing, printmaking, ceramics, textiles, figure drawing, and digital art. Figure drawing and digital was mandatory and I decided to specialise in glassblowing and sculpture, later on in printmaking.
[2015]
Artworks Created:
- Enlightenment Fire Drawing Video
- Visual Vibration (Colour on the brain study)
- Earthly Nebula Spray-Painting series
- Self Portrait
Major Life Events:
- My apprenticeship started with Lothar Bottcher at Obsidian Glass Studio.
- I left my long-term relationship, for the first time and ventured off on my own.
[2016]
Artworks Created:
- I Create My Own Reality
- Glass Letters series
- Glass Flower Garden
- Dopamine Molecule
- Blown Glass Portrait experimentations
- Sound is the Essence of Life series
- Ancient Symbols and Codes series
Major Life Events:
- I was held captive for three days by someone who I had met a year before. My ability to communicate telepathically would allow me to connect with someone letting them know I was in trouble. Despite being 2 hours away from home in a remote location, I was rescued.
- I suffered from social anxiety and ended up leaving my studies and completely excluding myself from any social interactions.
- Because of my inability to cope with what has happened also cost me my residency at Obsidian Glass and I was forced to leave the premises.
[2017]
Artworks Created:
- Mother - Land Art Installation
Major Life Events:
- I was not doing so well, but I got a job at Guy du Toit's bronze foundry where I spent the rest of the year. By the end of the year my emotions were out of control, and I really needed to talk to someone.
- I moved to Johannesburg with my aunt. She would take care of me for a year.
- After battling to find a psychologist, I found a woman who combined neuroscience and psychology. She would teach me how to use my imagination and rewire my synapses in order to deal with the association I had to certain emotional triggers.
[2018]
Artworks Created:
- Continue with:
- Sound is the Essence of Life series
- Ancient Symbols and Codes series
Major Life Events:
- I moved back to Pretoria and had my first studio in a storage facility which allowed me to use the space as a sculpture studio.
- I worked as a sales rep for Canon, selling printers.
- I started entering artist mentoring programs and got accepted in both the RMB Talent Unlock program as well as the ACBC (Artist Career Bootcamp). However, I had to choose between the two programs, and I stuck with the RMB Talent Unlock
- My artwork got a major breakthrough being displayed at The Turbine Art fair where I sold serval artworks.
- I decided to move back to Johannesburg and got a residency at August House, I stayed for three months until my ex reappeared in my life and sold me on the idea to move back to Pretoria for safety reasons.
[2019]
Artworks Created:
- Transference Installation
- Door Portals
- B.E.D Perspectives
- Steel Plate Paintings
- Cymatics Alphabet series
Major Life Events:
- I went back to school and completed my Btech in Fine Arts through TUT.
- I got another chance to re-enter the ACBC (Artist Career Bootcamp) program and got in.
- I produced work a lot of poetic narrative installations during this time, reflecting back on my experience of trauma
- The ACBC program held at The Bag Factory also chose me as the head curator for the exhibition Bibliotheca700.
- I moved to a new studio location in Pretoria which I called Sub-C Art House. I had a small gallery space and a coffee shop.
- I also started a new business in construction because my partner was an architect and project manager, he taught me how to run construction sites from the beginning to end of the project. We had our own construction material called KwikFrame.
- Later in the year my work navigated to exploring frequencies and vibrations even further, I started to develop my own language system based on cymatics (the visual study of sound).
[2020]
Artworks Created:
- Lockdown Soundscapes
- Cable Tie series
Major Life Events:
- I enrolled in a Fine Arts Master's degree through the University of Pretoria.
- Lockdown happened.
- I had no access to my studio.
- Spend house-sitting for my mother during the full-on lockdown, I started creating soundscapes around me being so aware of my surroundings not having anywhere to go.
- I was part of an artist challenge throughout the lockdown, and I discovered cable ties which I enjoyed working with because of the fluidity of the medium.
- Access to the university wasn't possible and not knowing the lectors on a personal face-to-face level really made it hard to navigate through my learning process. Me and my supervisor at the time didn't get along so well.
[2021]
Artworks Created:
- Sacred Construction series:
- Void Form: Thought Forms
- Void Form: Platonic Solids
- Void Form: D2A2D2 Environmental Recording
- Chladni Plate
- Everything is Hz (Sonic-Sculptural Art Installation)
- Healing Pod: I am Loved (Sonic-Sculptural Art Installation)
- Violation (Sonic-Sculptural Art Installation)
Major Life Events:
- I was battling to get my masters out and escaped into my own world.
- My relationship ended and I moved to Hatfield to be closer to the university, still under very limited access to the university.
- By the end of the year, I decided to move back to Johannesburg and got a space in Ellis House Artist Building.
- In exchange for my rent, I was appointed as the building curator where I hosted exhibitions such as, May Day: The Artist Role in Society. as well as My Body My Choice.
- I would also work as an art consultant at The Melrose Gallery.
- I got commissioned to do a site-specific installation at Nirox Sculpture Park through the Eduardo Villa Trust Fund.
- It really got tough balancing my workload and completing my masters and had to make a mental choice to leave my masters for now and get a head start by marketing and focusing on my artistic practice.
[2022]
Artworks Created:
- Lockdown: Simple T.E.S.T.
- Cymatics E(nergy)+Motion
- Hu(E)man Light Abstract Portrait series
Major Life Events:
- My first year of complete independence and really expanding on my network for my artistic practice.