Giving a hoot

“Owls have always played a special role in my life. The past few years I’ve been rehabilitating a 40-acre forested park in Johannesburg called The Wilds, and to get people to visit it again I installed 67 metal owl sculptures, in honour of Mandela’s 67 years of public service. It worked – hundreds of people have now been to the park to see the owls, and the park has come back to life as a public space.”