feeling poutie!

I came into my work room this morning and saw that no one had read my blog. I was poutie - its odd but its true - I had expected audience and there wasnt!

Ive been thinking about this reaction. in a way I feel very Victorian - the 'gentle reader' kind of thing. But when I think about it - and its difficult to articulate - I create my own sense of audience in my own head and so this 'audience' exists on several planes


1. my imaginary day dream of audience
2. my own reaction to my work and my thoughts
3. comments left here by other people

so 3. is only a part of my construct of audience.

To change the subject Ive started reading Robert Graves' The White Goddess and the catalogue of the Travelling Eqyptian Exhibition organised by the AFA in 2001.
Something that caught my eye - private statues often copied the statues of the reigning king but that his statues were not lifelike but used symbolic features to make him godlike in his image.

In a weird way it reminded me of having my photograph taken with an actor portraying an actor portraying a fictional charcter at movie world.

I love it!!!!

I love new books!

I bought the copy of Egyptian art Ive been looking at for some time. In reality its a catalogue of the work held in the British museum but its lush and beautiful and I wanted it!

I also bought a copy of Graves' The white Goddess because it talks to the work Im making at the moment. And I found Rappaport's Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity.

Then in a fit of the greedies I bought Tomasz Stanko's CD selected recordings.

So now I'm drinking a glass of very ordinary champagne with a flower floating in it and playing here. Im loving this!

I went and found a song by Anthony and the Johnsons to play here and found one.
I love his work with a passion - it makes an ache in the middle of me and allows me to experience psychic pain without destruction - for this I give thanks.

I'm going to upload more of my work and my artists statement

 

 

Artist Statement

I am a collage artist. I explore the concept of the sign using the idea of the female and found materials.

The common need to find the human form intrigues me. Irrespective of the disparate nature of the materials available we have a desire to construct the human form. In my work I wish to push this thought: how abstract must the form become before we no longer find the human within it?

Landscape fascinates me; the sensual relationship between land and sky; horizon as form seeking line; both speak to the mythic structures of earth mother and sky father.
Two pathways beckon; the pieta and the landscape as female.

I am not sure if the females I create are icons or if they are fetishes.