implicit art

Dorian Heatlie – a non-linear editing, film and digital arts trainer at Wits School of the Arts, Univeristy of the Witwatersrand – was hit and run on his Vespa about 3 weeks ago, and died in the Millpark Clinic 10 days later. It was violent and unfair to him, his (very closely knit) family, his students and friends.

I didn’t know Dorian very well, but I knew him as a supportive colleague, an interested artist, a generous teacher, a witty provocateur. In his five years at Wits, he touched and inspired so many students; many of them spoke today, at his memorial, about living by his principled example.

Yet again, it’s a sad day for Johannesburg.