January 2010
4 posts
“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite...
kickstarter →
Legendary Surtr9 has forwarded me a useful link in response to my recent pining. Has started the wheels turning. I feel excited! :)
Now back to work.
artist statement draft
The scent of a perfume… a colour, a faded photograph or postcard can trigger memories of long forgotten experiences. Memory is elusive. It doesn’t exist as a physical medium that can be held or touched. Rather it exists as a complex set of processes… constructions and relationships within the brain. It can be thought of as a powerful group of systems, which create, store and recall...
Current projects
Haven’t updated in awhile. So whilst I’m waiting for the paint to dry, I thought I’d post a bit of where I’m up to.
Have been listening to alot of Chopin lately.
I’m working on two painting projects at the moment that are dealing with memory.
The first is a large drawing/painting of a landscape panorama that spans 10 m across and over 2 m in height.
It...