Di Smith is a multidisciplinary visual artist living and working in Prince Albert. Work includes painting, sculpture, assemblage and textile art.

The Japanese aesthetic of Wabi Sabi, finding beauty in the incomplete, imperfect, and impermanent, perfectly captures her love for found objects. Her painting, like her sculpture, reflect events in her world and things she feels strongly about.
Her work is very Karoo-centric, capturing the essence of openness and big skies.
 

Di Smith

Thresholds

Sculpture, Rock & Ceramic

40 x 16 x 30 cm 

R 11 650

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​Thresholds – into liminal space, crossing from one life to another.
This sculpture speaks of displacement—the force that compels so many people to leave behind everything familiar and journey into uncertainty. Migration is rarely a free choice; it is usually a means of survival. When
home becomes untenable—when violence shatters safety, when tyranny crushes freedom, when hunger becomes starvation, when faith becomes a crime—people hopefully carry what they can and move toward the possibility of a safer tomorrow. The figures here represent that paradox of human resilience: the extraordinary courage required to take each
step away from what was known, driven by something stronger than fear of the unknown. It is the instinct to preserve life, to protect loved ones, to seek dignity. They move because staying would mean erasure.

They move because hope, however fragile, still outweighs despair.

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