Barbara-Anne van Wyk

I make pictures, we look at pictures, writers praise my intellect, I go eat. oursimpledesigns.com for other work

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I’ll Write This When It’s Over.

I’m writing, now, because it’s not. I hope it’s not. It’s not.

Barbara-Anne van Wyk3 min read

Everyone should look at Joburg.

I think that everyone should look at our city. I know that you do, often — you look at fabulous pictures of the Johannesburg skyline and…

Barbara-Anne van Wyk3 min read

I Think of You When I Change Things

Having changed something recently, I feel the signs. I’m forced to drive slightly different routes to different places at different times…

Barbara-Anne van Wyk3 min read

Matter

I just want to matter.

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Trigger Warning: Breakfast

The morning after I was raped, I thought I could create another story

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You’ve come a long way. It’s been over fifteen years since we sat in the first neurologist’s waiting room, looking at his office brochures…

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My Accidental Career in Wanderlust

I try to act nonchalant, as if staying behind alone on a foreign mountaintop above a curfewed, checkpointed city is completely reasonable.

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