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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Friday, 15 May 2015

State Transference: Part iii

Specular reflection, moonlight, tim Macauley, the light monkey collective, graphical abstraction, abstract, you won’t see this at MoMA, Anglesea, Victoria, Australia, photographic art, long exposure, state transference, water

My third in a series of studies of graphical abstractions of specular reflections over bodies of water this time using the moonlight of the water to the inlet at Anglesea, Victoria Australia.

drawing reference from Mark Rothko's colour fields

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Storm Surge series

surge, abstract, abstraction, storm, high tide, tim macauley, graphic, sea, water, Anglesea, Australia, timothy Macauley, you won’t see this at MoMA, storm surge, clash, detail

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.