Imbued with images of her African childhood, Ann Raabe grew up enraptured by the power of the mask. Eliciting deep and provocative stirrings, masks are archetypes of human existence, offering a synergy of power and beauty that pique the recesses of our deepest desires, yearnings and fears.
Hand-selected while on her African sojourns, Jabula masks inspire Ann to create an aura of fractured mirror, glass, beads and stones as their definition and container. They illuminate a room and ignite the soul in a Pandora's paradox of:
- primitive and modern;
- abstract and tangible;
- dark and light.
They are quite simply, timeless.