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We have always been enamoured with elephants. Their
image is brushed onto cave walls across South Africa, evidence of a
longstanding fascination that continues today. For those who live here the
beasts represent a spiritual connection to the land. But their future is in
danger. Artist Andries Botha fears that if we don’t get more active about
protecting our modern mammoths, future generations might be left with nothing
but fading depictions.
Botha is driving the cause through a herd of sculpted
elephants – life-size pachyderms constructed by encasing driftwood in metal
exoskeletons. His hope is to convince his audience that humans and animals can
co-exist peacefully. The sculptor, who lectures the subject at the Durban
University of Technology, was once effectively oblivious to the plight of the
world’s largest land mammals. But after being introduced to cave paintings in
the Northern Cape showing the area’s now-lost elephants he woke up. Botha
became disturbed by the damaging encroachment of the enlarging human world on
the habitats of these colossal creatures.
With conservationist Dr Ian
Player, he started the Human Elephant Foundation to generate awareness for
their protection, hosting exhibitions as a means of advocacy. Since its
original display in Belgium in 2006 his herd has grown to host 20 imposing
giants, some of which most recently appeared at Durban’s Warwick Triangle,
rising out of the ground in an attempt to cross the freeway. The question isn’t
who was here first, but how we can live together now that we’re here.

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