NELSPOORT

This saunter across the landscape of storytelling started with a photograph of a large, dark, spherical boulder lying in the veld. There must be hundreds of thousands of similar rocks all across the Karoo, like marbles on a giant child’s playground. They are bluish-black and polished to a high gloss by time.

Composed of iron-hard dolerite, they are the detritus of flat-topped koppies that have been