Living the dream

About this artwork

A playful yet poignant statement in the 'Bucket Series'. This piece is the portrait of a beautiful man who relocated from Italy to stake out a career for himself in South Africa. He makes ice cream magnificently. At the time, everyone and their goose was making this gorgeous ice cream in Italy but nobody in South Africa had entered that market. He and his partner Mauro went from busking at the Maboneng flee market to owning factories and shops country wide. Their story is packed with experience of Johannesburg and it's challenges with a marvellous Italian flair. I represent the ice cream maker with a bucket on his head - a metaphor relating to the 'head n the sand' concept, armed with a whisk to defend himself from the JHB Challenges.