This was project derived from a trip I took over the new year of 2013. I have long looked at Cape Town as an escape and source of colourful inspiration for my personal and work life. Therefore this brief came with pressure to be precious. The aim was to create a bespoke book, carefully crafted and edited. With the intention of celebrating the fragments of beauty that build the rainbow nation of South Africa. This includes the diversity in race, landscape, lifestyle and history. I wanted the consideration in craft to be the verbal signifier that the images provided where precious to me, yet relatable to everyone. This was through the ideology of Cape Town being ‘ The mother city’ , mother being a term each and everyone of us can relate to.