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.

Saturday, 4 January 2014

State Transference series

ocean sea water abstract abstraction tim macauley graphic night long time exposure night time anglesea australia light painting light tracing dark surreal

The theory of State Transference goes that we pass our mood onto those around us. Basically smile and the

whole world smiles with you [link]. I think imagery can have the same effect, just as music can.

After seeing one of the works of Madz Rehorek [link] of the sea at night time and it just transferring a calmness over me, I understood it. The series also takes a liberal dose of Mark Rothko [link], Jackson Pollock [link] and Andreas Gursky's Bangkok series [link].

specular reflections off Bass Strait taken off a cliff at Point Road Knight, on new years eve. All taken in camera using long time exposure and camera movements no Photoshop required. Light painting 101.

Coastal Series

coast coastal sea cliff tim macauley rock rocky sandstone geology anglesea australia art graphic flat sand abstractional series detail

coast coastal sea cliff tim macauley rock rocky sandstone geology anglesea Australia art graphic flat sand abstraction series great ocean road detail

Is there anything in this world that can't be graphically abstracted? sandstone cliffs around Anglesea right on The Great Ocean Road, in Australia. I guess the thing that surprised me was the variety of rock formations within a 2km stretch of coast but then again I never looked that closely before.