The Medicine Chest

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  Ma

  The Japanese have a word, ‘ma’, for this interval which gives shape to the whole – this ‘gap’, ‘opening’, ‘space between’ or ‘time between’. Ma is not something that is created by compositional elements, rather it can be understood as the thing that takes place in the imagination of the human who experiences these elements. A room, for example, is called 'ma', as it refers to the space between the walls. Or a rest in music, which indicates a pause between the notes or sounds (Pilgrim 1986: 255).
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  Wounds

  A wounded bottle in Special Collections, BC666, UCT
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  Holes

  A page from the Tabloid guide, BC666, UCT