AV Performance "stillness" final work; "SK8 Chi"

Papua New Guinea theme / research inspires Printmaking Class works

This work has two layers. A woodblock PNG flag and a dry point rendering of a map of the Samarai Island area combine to give interesting effect. The final works for this class included an additional layer of a "steel plate etching" taken from a photo of my families arrival in this area in 1982.

Scratchings, visual diary research and collage combine;

This above work is inspired by British-born Australian painter, John Wolseley. 

In a series of works he examines Wallace´s Line, named after Alfred Russel Wallace, who pioneered work in animal geography, and marked the channel between Bali and Lombok as a divide between two great zoogeographic regions, the Oriental and Australian.

In further research I discovered this blog from Papua New Guinea; 

http://newguineacall.blogspot.com.au/

Although while in Bali I did not have the correct type of paper for rubbings; I developed works based on photos I took from a moving car. My challenge was to give back the feeling of movement a digital photo does not give. In the second it takes to pass a building you can only take in / analyse a limited amount of information. 

These collages that combine Photoshop filter rendered works combined with straight colour printout, aim to reduce the amount of information available to be analysed in a still photo;

These works went on to be the core of my presentation for drawing class.

Return to "Site"; Skate Chi

Today I worked on a combined version of these videos for AV Performance;

 

Our teacher Jeremy introduced us to Ubu today;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8i_QGdR8FU

Sound of Music Bali

Filters on map theme drawing class works

Hieronymus Bosch in my travels;

Papua New Guinea Travel Memories;

 

 

 

 

Digital Imaging Class; fusions of images

My Epemeral Art Exhibition Experience

A safety scare meant there were many bins out on this day. Interesting comment on mans routine and natures reaction to stimulus. The mechanical beasts were out but the birds were a bit quieter on this overcast day. All must conform to the urban myth as the rap music plays;

This footage was captured for my Digital Visual Arts class. The subject I am looking at is how birds fit in our modern world. Houses, cars, 2hr parking zones, pedestrians and dogs don't bother birds too much....cat are abit of another story I guess. My old cats Lackey and Mouzer star in this film I took at my place in Welsh St, Denmark WA around 1993-4. Sound track from Jamdown Vershun mixtape. Includes Redemption Song acoustic guitar number by me (way back then).

Fallout New Vegas meets Stuart St Reserve

My latest GIF combines gaming and nature pics;

Digital Arts update;

This day in Digital Arts was big on movie making and small on GIFs;

Topical to my site project as it turns out
Stuart St surrounds had swamplands about.

A reflection on the nature of progress?
A machine like eye gives it's caress
A simulated memory of billabong
A recorded broadcast of frogs swamp song
 Streets form pattern of a protective cage
and herald the dawn of a new age;

 

A day in the park;

This video is intended to have an arty feel;
inspired by works I have seen at PICA and videos of Chris Cunningham
(features a fusion of footage I took at the latest exhibition at PICA and my project area Stuart St Reserve).
Reference;

"What I See When I Look at Sound"

http://www.pica.org.au/view/What+I+See+When+I+Look+at+Sound/1844/

Down to business; creating Animations.

 Animated GIFs 

Moreton Bay Fig Tree at Stuart St Reserve;

 

Keyless piano donated to Central for art uses;