This recent sculpture is a composite resin form produced for a curated exhibition of outdoor sculpture planned for the Athens 2004 Olympics but which did not materialise. The shape is smoothly ovoid with a small protrusion on one side and an equally-sized hollow on the other. The form is a hollow durable construction that is meant to be placed on the ground, either indoors or outdoors, and function both as an aesthetic object and as a seat. Further casts are likely to be made in Wafer's customary earthen colours.

The visual points of departure for Wafer's abstracted forms are opaque but include references to the KwaZulu-Natal landscape of his youth and the motifs often found on headrests, meat platters and pottery shards from this region. His work is always deceptively simple in construction, regular and symmetrical in form, contained, and conducive to calm introspection and silence.

Wafer was born in 1953. He has a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand and a career in academia which spans two decades. He recently returned to the University of Witwatersrand as a lecturer.