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Salt Pans and Memories


                                          Ethan Thomas











































            Ethan Thomas, who identifies             Memories & The Water Pilgrimage:         Ethan, this stopping point triggered
            himself as “a Port Elizabethan,”         An Image.” As the title suggests, the    a childhood memory of the night

            studied music at the Nelson              work was inspired by the Salt Pans,      time view across the Salt Pans from

            Mandela University. In response to       which were as part of an inspiring       his grandmother’s home, situated
            the pilgrimage, he created a lyrical     tour of the Swartkops Estuary, given     on the other side, high on the hill,
            word-image, entitled “Salt Pans,         by zoologist, Dr Paul Martin. For        overlooking the pans and the city.



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