Sunday is the day

Today is a pledge - that I will make with my hand raised in a 'Scout's Honour' kinda' fashion - which I hope to uphold most diligently:
I, Sarah Laura Botha, will do my very best to create a post (content may vary) every day (until the imminent uprising of all machines against humanity.)

Okay, so maybe not the last part (although I do wonder sometimes...) but I really am going to make this commitment.
With any luck, this small pressure may give me the nudge I need to diligently pursue interesting artistic information and - ultimately - keep me thinking about what my future holds.

Isn't this just the most beautiful wall you've ever seen? 

Serious promise-making aside, it is currently the most beautiful autumn in Sheffield - just in time for Art Sheffield! The city-wide festival kicked off at the beginning of October, under the title Zero Hours. To check out what's going on, head to http://www.artsheffield.org/
Probably the festival's gem, Joseph Beuys' Wirtschaftswerte (Economic Values) is being displayed at Graves Gallery. My personal highlight, however, is a video/sound work by Mikhail Karikis being exhibited at Site Gallery. On his website, the desription says:

Mikhail Karikis has been commissioned to create a new work for Art Sheffield 2013. His new film Children of Unquiet features his collaboration with a group of children in Italy with whom he orchestrated a children’s “take-over” of the abandoned workers’ villages and the adjacent industrialized locations in the geothermal area in Tuscany known as The Devil’s Valley.

Children of Unquiet (from the artist's website)

For more information about his amazing body of work, check out http://www.mikhailkarikis.com/

That's all for now, folks x