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Early Morning Donkin Reserve Panorama – Editors Pic

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This image is from the MyPE Editor’s Flickr Account – offering some topical daily images from a phone smarter than Alan, occasional images from a DSLR and scanned images of Port Elizabeth as he wanders around the Bay pretending to know a lot and sometimes succeeding in making a complete hash of it!

Early Morning Donkin Reserve Panorama

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Image by awstraton

Image taken from in front of the old Grey Institute over the lone female figure standing sentinel whilst looking across the Donkin Reserve and Algoa Bay. This figure forms part of Route 67 and was sculpted (cast) by Anton Momberg. She has no discernible features which is the way that artist Anton Momberg intended it.

The piece is intentionally untitled so rendering it as a conversation piece rather than a conceptually specific entity. The piece thus becomes a representation of all women – KhoiSan or Xhosa from the time when Dias first discovered Algoa Bay, the 1820 British Settler women, today’s modern women, mothers or workers of today. Encompassing all cultures, languages and forms she epitomises strong women.

This image is randomly selected from an ever growing repository of publicly available images taken in and around Port Elizabeth.

Many more Port Elizabeth images here.

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