© Marian Bantjes

She is an angel descend­ing to earth shar­ing the divin­ity of beauty. TED picked it up, and here’s what she has to say about her work:

I’m very inter­ested in won­der, in design as an impe­tus to inquir­ing. To say I won­der is to say I ques­tion, I ask. And to expe­ri­ence won­der is to expe­ri­ence awe. […] But I really believe that a fully oper­at­ing, rich soci­ety needs these seeds com­ing from all direc­tions and all dis­ci­plines in order to keep the gears of inspi­ra­tion and imag­i­na­tion flow­ing and cycling and grow­ing. So that’s why I do what I do, and why I spend so much time and effort on it, and why I work in the com­mer­cial, pub­lic sphere, as opposed to the iso­lated, pri­vate sphere of fine art. Because I want as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to see my work, notice it, be drawn into it, and be able to take some­thing from it. And I actu­ally really feel that it’s worth­while to spend my valu­able and lim­ited time on this earth in this way. And I thank you for allow­ing me to show it to you.

She call her­self a Graphic Artist, but she’s mostly a thinker, philoso­pher & phil­an­thropist play­ing the roles of a poet, a writer, a designer, a painter, an artist and more pre­cisely an agent of inspiration.

It’s one of the best talk on TED I’ve seen just yet, down­load the high-res MP4; and have a look at her web­site for her wide-range of medi­ums & multi-discipline of prac­tice she is able to cre­ate from.