time is not something you can stockpile

I've had STUFF ALL TIME to write anything up here and it's getting me down. Sickness that nags like a cheeky raven on the back fence, too many commitments and a pile projects - blimey, I'm doing a bit, but it's not all about me at least.

Anyway, my old dear pal Julian Williams, musician, artist and writer, has a blog and a half: From The Same Mother


gad, he has a delightful turn of phrase.

10% Pending

This is the 10% Pending homeless ARI in action down at Salamanca Square. I have a work in this gallery that travels about Hobart and Australia. It's flat packable but it's getting pretty big, they tell me.




this my work in said mobile gallery. It's called I have 810 Facebook friends

Check the 10% Pending blog out over here

Money

Theme and variation

Kvlt

I miss analogue

Two images in this post.
Both were created using Analogue printing technology.



This image, The Card, is a color photocopy using an analogue copier that would find amazing colours in anything it touched. I loved the thing, and it was used to make lovely band flyers around Hobart by the savvy. There's a version of The Card below that's quite different - it's a manipulated via digital wizardry scan. This just came out like that - somewhat arcane to my mind.



This is Peril On The Sea.
It's a photocopy onto light blue card using brown ink. The poor assistant at the copy shop would have to pull out a huge ink roll and put in another and I would make ten cards for her trouble. I made very few of these and have but one left. It's precious in it's way as the technology is outmoded and gone, which I shall miss as I love the feel of these things. This lone print has survived much and has a few little creases; the back of it features the delicate filigree nibbles of silverfish as well.

The irony that I can share them readily due to digital technology doesn't escape me though.

the Peril print is For Sale, by the by.

Grunge (old school)

This Image is a relic from sharehouse days. I found it and it's primitive and silly and I like it, so up it goes. It reminds me how I've always made art and scribbled on things long before I thought it was art.

No Art Yet, but...

I am stoked as I'll be having a solo exhibition next year. At this stage, it's to be called "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" and it will be an expansion of the construction (see below) I made for the Real Good Drawer show (also see below).

It'll be at INFLIGHT A.R.I.

The idea is to take up the entire space and make a huge environment that will be sort of a forest, a mountain range and a throne. All in the firmest lo-fi traditions of course, unless I get some kind of high paying job and can pay people to dress as trolls.

I also look at art blogs

And these are some I dig:

Grave Architecture

Jesse Moynihan - really, go read his story "Forming" right now. Ancient god-aliens battling for the earth at the dawn of time. I think. It's a beauty.

then there's Personal Devices - which is a little hard to describe

I jut moved house so there'll be a moment before more pictures and stuff go up but I'm enjoying this. And I have a studio now, so I have to play with that as well.

I'm also broke, original artworks for sale.

Triangles

there's a few of these triangle collages and drawings about. The B&W one(s), I use to make other things - see below. It's a wee bit of a new thing for me, but all this is really.
Most of the triangles are to be in the zine, Wizardz. I think this could be why it has such a Seventies title.
They are somewhat inspired/ripped off from my pal, Lach Conn, who makes terrific art.
Check out his collaborative stuff with Michael Prior, over at the THOTH PRESS

The Card

This is version of a collage I made many years ago. It's a random postcard I painted with some sort of white-out (remember that stuff?), stuck a number puzzle that originally came from a cereal box way back even further in time, and covered with gloss-finish style stuff.

It's odd and looks to have some sort of occultish/Magikal leanings. I have made many copies over the years, used it in performances and played with it. This is a scan of the original object that i've mucked about with.

This was a part of RGD (see below) as well, but it as something new for me and I think I might make more things like this.

Real Good Drawer Show

Here's some documentation of Show I was just in at Six_A ARI.

Most of this is to be in a zine I'm working on slowly, when the spirit moves me, which will be called Wizardz.

When that turns up, you'll know.