Again, beware as Matilda is a challenged photographer!

So many in a row!

Fractals for Al





Wattles

The Tamar and Launcestons decaying elegance

My waratahs were making a fuss when I got home

Well now I know what a watarah is!

Looks like an interesting trip.

Love the first pic with the JG book! :fonz:

Wattles and Watarah's are beautiful!! ^_^

Thanks for sharing! :)

Nice, but where are the people circling the flames nekkid?? :D

It was a PG family friendly event :P

Interesting. I like the reflections of the wheelbarrow (?) in the lower shot. Was that intentional?

I was possibly reading too much Derrida at the time this piece was made so I maybe sholuldn't even try writing this because........

At the face of slippage I soldier on.

Yes, the wheelbarrow is intentional - for us here at NS it is a poor substitute for an actual person.

Touchstone is not really activated properly until an actual physical someone is there - we don't have that luxury here unfortunately. I can't add any pics with a somebody in the reflection for the same category of reason.
My memory suggests the glass stands around 1.8m (the piece is documented in photo but by this stage in my artistic practices I was well into the notion of transience in art). As a musician you would get this.
On entering the space (this is an installation piece) one notices one's reflection and may or may not translate the mirror text 'touchstone'. There are a number of 'flights of fancy' one's thinking can pursue from here.
Essentialy however once the viewer is in the reflection the subjectivity of our interpretive processing is activated. Amusingly (for me anyway) one might then notice the further away the glass is the more you can see around yourself.

Too much? Bet you're sorry you asked now!

No, that makes a lot of sense, thanks.

More Matilda activities:
Once again, sorry about the dodgey photo at the bottom :lol:












And apologies, I just realized I've removed all the above pics in the posts above, I'll attempt a remedy later.

I like!! :hail: :hug:

Was gonna say...I can't see the previous ones.

This latest batch reminds me a lot of that cave art they found in France and Australia. Dunno if you were going for that, but that's how my imagination seems to work. At least today.

They look pretty cool. Any chance of some bigger pics?

Thanks all.

I have to scan alot of it first so only get to them occasionally, but as you're encouraging me, watch out!

As for larger - did you see Mr Facebook when I was first learning how to do this - that was large :lol:

Yes, I'll go for larger. Thanks for asking.

I probably should try and give dimensions for the work too but then I have to find my notes because many no longer exist or are elsewhere. I'll go for approximations perhaps.
Anyway - this piece, approximation - about 160 X 120cms?

My avs, well I have to remember to ask Al since he offered for tech help - between the scanner, the shrink and the play on photoshop 5.5 alot gets lost.

I'm trying to work out if I care or not.
I like work that appears slap dash but actually isn't - sometimes the line that divides this is difficult to ascertain.

I understand DeviantArt allows really large pix on their user's accounts. You could try that.

For some reason I can't see them all, but I'm liking what I can see. :fonz:

Davis, this is actually a good idea I'm just a little spun out by the more open public venue that I perceive the DeviantArt space as being - perhaps I'm wrong.

Thanks Shay.
I'm sorry, its a mistake I made that means the other pics can't be seen. When the dust settles on my current community arts activities I'll address and fix the above accidental (on my part) lack of images. :)

Ok it was a wonderful day today so took this lot out for playtime:






The red roof is my studio :D

Aw, coolness! :B)

Love, love, love your studio!! :rockon: :hail:

Interesting pieces - don't know quite what to make of them.

The place looks lovely - great view, too.

Thanking you both.

Yes, I love my studio too :D

A good part of country living in an (suppressed) economically depressed area is our being lucky enough to afford a wonderful outlook like this - now you all know why I'm always running to the balcony to drink chai.
New year is fun too - don't have to go anywhere, just watch the fireworks (not big ones) unfold from here as a little to the left we look out over the our town.:fireworks:
During the firestorms it was terrifying - the entire sky was black and red with what looked like rake tines stretching from the mountains towards us.

Fire - yes these were born out of the fire event (see above). :rolleyes:
I wish I could remember more but they were made some good long time ago now. If I could be bothered unearthing my journaling from back then we might know more. However, will have to just go with gut reaction - not a bad idea as my art is quite often more intellectual than emotional. :)

There's a term I don't know - what do you mean by "suppressed area" in this context?

I see the reason I made this linguistic slip. :smack:

It's meant to read depressed, as in economically. Thanks for calling me out on this one Al, the sentence above makes more sense now I think.

Ah OK. I had thought it might be to do with fire or agricultural regs. :lol:

Mulit-talented indeed! :hail:

Have you been doodling on your free time...? :P

:o Crikey, how did you guess? Did you see me there as well!!!!! :P

Your photo? The framing and the unfuzziness made me wonder but the subject surprised me.
The again I guess I haven't see too many or indeed any of your photos.

Davis thanks for suggesting I jump in at deviantART, well, I did finally. I am exploring desire vs need using imagery I complete from my 'In the Supermarket' series. These pics are integral to the slogan they match, this one is "Canned Love Free with Purchase'. One day they will possibly be printed on glass and be displayed on a light box? Or something else - who knows!

Normally won't be posting that work here but thought I'd put in the following as an example of process - I enjoy watching other peoples processing ( not just in art - design, maths, all things creative are fun to watch folk getting from a to b for me).

So, I begin with a pic from at the supermarket


Draw over pic to contain structures better. The text in the pic is based on the slogan 'Canned Love Free with Purchase':


Knowing these pieces will be returned to cyberspace in deviantART, photoshop for 'painting' the surface


Oh and one more more 'sculptural' idea:

Nope, just a web find.


My camera got stolen on my last big trip. Then I replaced it with a digicam, then that got borked and I haven't fixed/replaced that, so no photos from me. I must get back into it.

I hope you can soon :)

These pyramid babies I used to make remind me a little of the odd mood developing in the world being created in the 1000 pages thread:

I find your talent overwhelming. :hail:

^Thanks Jack, if I could be bothered going back though I'd be looking at teasing this one out more.

I used to love sculture 'cos of the way it made my thoughts real life tangible :D It was such a relief 'cos it felt like I wasn't just making stuff up as usual.
No idea why I decided to come into cyberspace and drift back into this 2D stuff. Next thing you know I'll be painting again :o That would be fun, its been a very long time.

Oh well I'm sure there'll be way of getting all this (cyber art) tangible again.
The plastic 'I wish' bags series are a good pointer.
I reckon I should do them on grey bags with pink text though.
Here's some more:
"I wish I could feel safe"
"I wish I could live just a little longer"
"I wish I had enough"
"I wish I had somewhere to live"

Anyone care to add an "I wish..." slogan for a plastic bag?
No? I love the idea of sharing slogans - we all shop after all.

The plastic bags are the real need part of the 'In the Supermarket' series, unlike the above 'worked' accidental photos like 'Canned Love Free with Purchase' that picks up more on the desire - or perhaps the boudaries where desire and need meet?
Anyone got a desire/need slogan to share?

Here is a book I made responding to the grand masculinity of modern art by engaging in a kind of untidy, small, sewing way. Its only about 18 X 18cms in size.
The prints I did for it were inspired by the techy/sciency men in my life at that time - my father, brother, my elder son.

Deconstructed Mondrian?

Deconstructed or not, he's always there.
Also Ann Hamilton, Kiki Smith, Fiona Hall, Anselm Kiefer, Arte Povera, Fauves, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois.

I have only done one environmental art experiment.
Thought it fun to drop my folksy little effort in here as we have been discussing these artists.









Just realized I should maybe have done these a little bigger so heres one:

The second one down shows the effect nicely.

True.
I made the other larger because I wanted the weir wall to represent itself.
There are also a great many more pics from this that serve as more of a story.

I wasn't thinking how none of you would know this 'act' was just one part of it's 'mother' installation 'Counterscarp'. I unfortunately don't have any 'Counterscarp' documentation that would get this into better context as there are viruses on that cd.