{"id":10861,"date":"2025-06-02T07:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/?page_id=10861"},"modified":"2025-06-06T06:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:07:58","slug":"tankwa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/tankwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tankwa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Bleached by sun and stripped of excess, Tankwa<\/em> is a visual meditation on silence, space, and the elemental character of the Karoo. Captured within the stark expanse of South Africa\u2019s Tankwa Karoo National Park, these images explore a landscape where time slows, detail sharpens, and the horizon feels impossibly wide.<\/p>

This is a place of hard lines and soft decay\u2014where rusting remnants, scorched soil, and skeletal flora speak in the language of endurance. Each photograph is a quiet encounter with the tension between isolation and presence, shaped by long light and deep shadow.<\/p>

In Tankwa<\/em>, absence becomes subject. The series invites viewers to pause, breathe, and witness a landscape that resists definition yet hums with quiet resilience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Tankwa Bleached by sun and stripped of excess, Tankwa is a visual meditation on silence, space, and the elemental character of the Karoo. Captured within the stark expanse of South Africa\u2019s Tankwa Karoo National Park, these images explore a landscape where time slows, detail sharpens, and the horizon feels impossibly wide. This is a place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10861"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11090,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10861\/revisions\/11090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}