You won't see this at MoMA

As a parting remark by a college principle, I was told that he would look forward to the day that he saw my work hanging in MoMA. As such, I wasn’t quite sure how to take the remark. Was it final and long overdue gatekeeper validation of my clear artistic genius, or a form of mild mocking, better placed in a high school playground of false hope? I'll leave it up for you to decide. If you do actually see any of this stuff at MoMA in the future, my apologies in advance.

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Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Storm Surge series

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I remember the impact that Naoya Hatakeyama's Blast series [link] had on me when I saw it at his retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA back in 2012 [link]. The wonder of seeing something that before the human eye could not really see, much like the ground breaking technology created by MIT Scientist Harold Edgerton and the stunning interactions he was able to capture [link]. There was some pretty wild weather down along the coast over the past week and wanted to see that same beauty in the stillness of the energy of the storm surge.

Sunday, 27 July 2014

Layers series

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Graphical abstractions of sandstone rock formations located at flat rock in the Northern Grampian's Victoria, Australia. I love this small rock formation to have so many different shapes within one place created from so many layers of compressed sand over a millennium

My interest in graphical abstraction came from my interest in comics as a kid and coming across the work of Jeffery Smart [link], Roy Lichtenstein [link] and Piet Mondrian [link] I like the idea of a one to one relationship a two dimensional medium representing effectively a two dimensional subject.