Sculpturette Title: Poppaeo: Rebirth

Original Decorative Fine Art (Mixed Media Sculpture Display)

by Controversial Human-Centred Artist Ras Steyn [MA]

A great deal of my visual output reflects my concern about the silent eradication of South African myths and traditional legends.
Southern African culture and ancient tribes, some nomadic and others dominant in specific regions,
have provided a plethora of magical metaphoric tales worthy of crucial preservation for future inquisitive minds.
"Moreover, I like to think of my visual art as contemporary archetypes or abstracted rituals that aim to incite new stories
- they are Southern African-Futurist Folklore Visions and Neo-Legends trying to root themselves." [Ras Steyn: 19/06/2025]

Over the last five years I have pursued the study of abstract expression as well as reductive abstract paintings.

After working within the lines with much of my other mediums, I had to set traps for myself in order to ignite accidents
- accidents that are necessary in the production of harmonious abstraction.
You have to make peace with the fact that not all your abstract experiments are going to result in exquisite compositions,
but that's how the process unfolds - and somehow you just have to find a way to disconnect from your orderly and pragmatic self. 
Contemporary artist Ras Steyn is based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

His work has been described as anthropomorphic, controversial, conceptually unique and a protean attack on visual mediocrity.