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The idea of constructing a website, one that would feature
work in progress from all of the residencies, is to create a window onto
the somewhat sealed world of the asylum seeker. Musa Engelbrecht, is a
painter, ceramicist and website designer. He has lived in Ireland for
25 years, but was at one time a lecturer in Graphic Design in his native
South Africa.
His virtual gallery www.galwaybaygallery.com
is a showcase for his own work and many of the interesting artists working
in the west of Ireland today.
Creating this web site was an intense emotional journey for me. It took
me back 25 years to the height of oppression in South Africa and the very
real experience of leaving loved ones behind...
My response to the theme "REFUGEE" as digital artist was a remarkable and moving one, inspired by a poem by the Iranian poet Hossein Bagher Zadeh...
I also had the good fortune to design the CD cover of a professional recording that John Bowker produced during his residency, with residents of Knockalisheen...
Creating this web site was a wonderful
creative challenge for me...
Not only as an artist/designer but as programmer too.
How to integrate sound in the site so that most visitors can access it?
What about people on slow dial-up access to the internet?
What about people with old out-of-date browsers?
I hope that I have come somewhere close to solving these issues...
