Marian Bantjes is a typographer, designer, artist and writer. She explains how her love for shiny, vile items covered in plastic is best satisfied through photography.
I have a perverse interest in kitsch. I know I’m not alone in this, but for me the interest is dangerous because it creeps into my work, not always to the best effect, so I have to kind of fight it, or be careful that it doesn’t consume me.
Plastic things in bright colours are a magnet for me, and this is part of the reason I’m drawn to markets, particularly where household things are sold. I love stalls selling reams of vile-patterned fabric, stalls with many hanging frilly nightgowns, stalls full of plastic buckets, dustpans, wash tubs, bowls and other things. I also love…
