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LOCATION:Braamfontein Campus West 
DESCRIPTION:Running alongside Ruth Sacks’ work, The Hazel Futa Project revisits the legacy of Hazel Futa, Miss South Africa 1955.The project asks a central question: What remains when a story is forgotten, and how do we resurrect historical narratives when the individuals can no longer speak for themselves? Drawing on the theory of biocentrism, which proposes that life and consciousness are fundamental to the universe and that energy cannot be created or destroyed, the project suggests that while physical bodies decay, the enduring sense of identity remains an active energy.
<br />Using the iconic cover of Zonk! Magazine which featured Futa in her winning garments and jewellery&mdash;as a focal point, the research team re-created her dress and adornments. They then inoculated material swatches with microbial samples taken from the soil of her remembered footsteps, cultivating them on agar growth plates. Through this biological transformation, the recreated garments become living sites of continuous growth, demonstrating that forgotten stories, like energy, simply change form rather than end.
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<br />Enquiries and RSVP: tammy.hodgskiss@wits.ac.za; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerkMWzfyPORS7WEdIZYWKLfQ3UasiuN39mNX2CfNFNFD1dXA/viewform
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>Running alongside Ruth Sacks’ work, The Hazel Futa Project revisits the legacy of Hazel Futa, Miss South Africa 1955.</strong><p>The project asks a central question: <em>What remains when a story is forgotten, and how do we resurrect historical narratives when the individuals can no longer speak for themselves? </em>Drawing on the theory of <strong>biocentrism</strong>, which proposes that life and consciousness are fundamental to the universe and that energy cannot be created or destroyed, the project suggests that while physical bodies decay, the enduring sense of identity remains an active energy.</p>
<br /><p>Using the iconic cover of <em>Zonk!</em> Magazine which featured Futa in her winning garments and jewellery&mdash;as a focal point, the research team re-created her dress and adornments. They then inoculated material swatches with microbial samples taken from the soil of her remembered footsteps, cultivating them on agar growth plates. Through this biological transformation, the recreated garments become living sites of continuous growth, demonstrating that forgotten stories, like energy, simply change form rather than end.</p>
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<br /><p>Enquiries and RSVP: <a href="mailto:tammy.hodgskiss@wits.ac.za">tammy.hodgskiss@wits.ac.za</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerkMWzfyPORS7WEdIZYWKLfQ3UasiuN39mNX2CfNFNFD1dXA/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerkMWzfyPORS7WEdIZYWKLfQ3UasiuN39mNX2CfNFNFD1dXA/viewform</a></p>
SUMMARY:EXHIBITION OPENING: The Hazel Futa Project: The Soil Remembers
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