Some fun discussions on the Tower have begun!

Yesterday Carol and Keith popped into my office to see the latest bunch of sample baby child figure dolls brought in by Celani and Beauty. Their child figure dolls are quite lovely and are already taking on a whole host of child-like personalities. Some are waving, some have hair up in pony tails, some of the boys have short cropped modern hair styles, and their clothing is stunning! 

Linda received an amazing donation of fabrics from the kindest man in Durban! He is Mo Peer from G+M 'The Peers Company' in Durban. He gave her bags of coloured shwe shwe, and a host of other printed fabrics, all very appropriate to child clothing. Thank you Mo!

Keith got us all going on the look and feel of the actual tower, on which the 600 dolls will stand. Linda and I joined our Graphic Design staff for coffee after this meeting, and we were given such great advice from numerous creative minds, in a very short space of time! Its our intention that the tower should be 'invisible' and that the child figure dolls should stand out boldly, and get all the attention from the multiple audiences which will see them. By the way, Carol shared with us that this A.R.T. exhibition will go to various countries in Africa, as well as being finally put in place at the World AIDS Conference in Washington in mid 2012! 

Prof. Ian Sutherland and Rick Andrew, my colleagues, have both contributed significantly with the context of this tower. Ian has suggested that we use wording something like this to describe our intention: 'Towers of strength creating humane villages.' We love this!

I will make a fun Chickenman Mkise sign to display this. Linda wants a large size makoti doll standing right there too. So all good so far! Siyazama Project on the move, again! 

Below is an idea of high tall the tower will be...nonetheless, it will not be at an angle like the image depicts. It will be straight up!