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African Stories: Road C38. Namibia, Africa. Road Art 2.|| Oberholzer: The ultimate dream, for me, is not finding the town that has almost nothing, but getting there. ‘Fokkolfontein' is just a beautiful way of naming a place where there's absolutely nothing. The art lies in getting there. Many small towns, or dorps, in South Africa, are named after springs, (or ‘Fonteine' in Afrikaans), but through climatic change, mostly caused by the Americans, most of them have long since dried up. So Fokkolfontein doesn't even have a spring. The road between Okaukue and Outjo runs straight and boring, excepting for the cracks in the road that have been painted over with black tar. There were literally kilometres of cracks and cracks and cracks. Cracks you a bit, all these cracks. I mean, wouldn't you also get visually aroused if you had to travel over 136 kilometres of black cracks? I‘ve been on many straight roads in Africa, but never one that had black cracks extending to infinity, especially if there is nothing much else to look at but black cracks. At one stage I got so excited that I stopped, grabbed my can of gold spray paint and did it, right there, in the middle of the road. There's nothing quite as rewarding as doing Road Art surrounded by nothing but cracks. Just the thought that this could never appear in some pretentious Art gallery was freedom personified. To view this ‘Road Art', set your GPS co-ordinates to 19° 18.52 South and 15° 54.09 East on the Namibian National Road C38. (KEYSTONE/LAIF/Obie Oberholzer)