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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Thursday, 20 December 2012

Tree: volume I series

tim macauley, timothy macauley, you wont see this at moma

Taken on a corner in an affluent outer Sydney suburb. It's graphic, yet the organic nature of the subject manner I felt added something to it. Continuing to follow the rule that there is nothing that can't be abstracted

Bill Henson [link] did a bunch of work on moody landscapes at night but nothing this abstract and up close.

If you like this checkout the second volume [link].

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Return to Marysville series

Marysville was burnt out during the 2009 Black Saturday fires in which 34 people died in the area.

The Australian bush has a regenerative power to it that many of the gums trees have evolved such that they actually need the heat of a bush fire to germinate and release seeds and epicormic buds allowing the rebirth of the gums. This contrast of black and green is quite a sight to behold.

This series was taken out the window of a moving car as it moved from Marysville back into Melbourne taking a healthy dose of inspiration from Ernst Haas [link].