Updated: May 2003

"Imprisoned and then released, forced to abandon his village and take refuge in the disheartening anonymity of a big city, Sibusiso is an epic character worthy of comparison with legendary characters by Bruce Chatwin and Mario Vargas Llosa.... [the book is] the diary of a wanderer. A wanderer with a single destination: that no man's land, that fine line between dream and obsession which those who still feel the need to create something new are bound to walk." —Label

"There's something epic about the story of a young South African boy who was so thrilled to see a plane circling above the mountains in his native Kwazulu Natal that he went home determined to build one from scrap wire and sheet metal from the dump, and who went on to build hundreds of aircraft sculpture, some spectacularly large, including the 'fish helicopter' which he built to be his home. It's a remarkable ethnographic 'catch' and a superb spectacle, and it fell into the hands of Koto Bolofo, exiled South African fashion photographer and filmmaker....Appropriate and surely satisfying then, that a returnee's rediscovered homeland should provide him with material so fundamentally in tune with his exiled mind's eye. And of course the metaphor of a young, shy boy making incredible, beautiful flying machines as the new nation that one day will represent his liberty sprouts its own wings for the first time is intimately, intensely powerful." —The Fader

"Regardless of your vicinity, Bolofo captures the heart and soul of all those who crave the cradle of their place of birth, but who, for one reason or another, are barricaded from a place called home." —Trace

“Bolofo’s rich colour prints ooze with the warmth of the South African landscape. His exquisite platinum prints are in fabulous contrast to Mbhele’s sculptures—the valuable metal of the black and white images meets the scrap metal used by the artist….Few photographers could have shown us this epic journey with the passion and humanity that Bolofo brings to his subject.” —Eye Magazine

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