Thinking big in the south African bush

摘要

Standing atop one of the highest-points in the Kouga range, all I can see in every direction are the convoluted curves, gulfs and crowns of mountains. There is no sound, only the sense of the movement of cloud as two patterns interplay, those of height and chasm and of light and shadow. Below the crags of the mountain tops are slopes covered in dense thicket, others clad in grass or fynbos ('fine bush'). On barren rock faces, tortured red-sandstone folds testify to the geological upheaval that followed the break-up of Gondwanaland and that formed the four parallel ranges that make this area unlike anywhere else on Earth.