Lien Botha brought an African Grey Parrot named Coco with her on her visit. He whistled and watched as she installed the dado gray scale on the wall of the residency space. (The dado gray scale was used by photographers when developing their own prints as a guide of the tonal spectrum in the print.)
In other parts of the museum, she hid colour cards. People who found these were entitled to a free catalogue of her show Parrot Jungle, which is currently on at the PhotographersGalleryZA (Shortmarket Street, Cape Town). At the same time, it also forced visitors to engaged with the venue as a historic space. Two groups of students visited, and there was an intense discussion around her work.
Lien with the completed scale at the end of the day...
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