Self Thoughts

Title: Self thoughts, Series: Thought for food. Artist: Bernice Troskie, 2025. Oil Paint on Porcelain, 15cm diameter each.

Part of the Saucers 2.0 exhibition running during the month of August, the artist found a theme presenting itself: Thoughts for food. We forget that it is not just our body that requires feeding, we need beauty and abstract thought to give meaning to life and reason for feeding the body.

The plates say:

1) In words – “I am not made of steel”, In morse code – “Nor porcelain”

2) In words – “I am not made of porcelain”, In morse code – “Nor steel”