The next most obscure major sculpture / outdoors artwork at UCT is the Darth Vader statue, hidden in the corner of a bleak and otherwise featureless courtyard on the north side of the Julius Malema Hall - sorry; forgot it hadn't been officially renamed yet; Jammie Hall!
Of course, there is another myth concerning this monument: that it is in fact a depiction of the "spirit of Table Mountain", called by its apparently more ethnically-sound name, named "To Hoerikwaggo".
This is of course a mere fancy: anyone seeing the tarnished, brooding hulk will immediately know that this just HAS to be the Sith Lord Darth Vader; as with our previous offering, its placement - apparently a deliberate attempt to hide it in an obscure and dreary location - is a clever use of context to emphasise the air of banishment and neglect. Even more cunning is the use of loose bricks and builder's sand on the base of the figure to hammer home the casual abuse of a once-mighty potentate; how He has been forgotten in our popular culture, and used as a table.
And yet, and yet.... Still he stands, darkly brooding; still he looms over one who ventures close, so that a shiver runs up one's spine, and one looks around, involuntarily.
For we remember: always two Sith there are....
