I've spent the last week mucking around in the print labs trying to find the best way to move forward with my ideas. Screen-printing is where I started, making a yellow and purple image that doesn't hold any art value to me and was more of a technical tool for understanding. i really enjoyed the… Continue reading Play
The day everything went wrong
Yesterday my commute got completely messed up - I only caught two busses that I normally catch and even then they were all wrong. First I got on a bus at a time that I don't normally catch due to how busy it normally is, and it was dead quiet, and absolutely cruised through the… Continue reading The day everything went wrong
Wiggles and Wobbles
Using the animation feature on Procreate, i drew out my shapes, and limited the onion skin to only the one frame id just drawn, so each frame of the animation is a further distortion of the original form. As a result they wobble ! I've called them Air Conditioned Shapes because the wobbly imitates the… Continue reading Wiggles and Wobbles
On insecurity and ‘what does it mean’ anxiety
I'm ditching my family. I found that the rabbit hole of family history and homes wasn't serving my practice but was feeding and fuelling the anxiety that i had that my work wasn't about anything important that it couldn't be important. Now that i have been doing more research and have been unpacking my practice… Continue reading On insecurity and ‘what does it mean’ anxiety
Hikoi and Korero
The walk and talk was incredibly helpful !! Being able to talk about my practice and talk through the ideas and keep talking until I figured it out was fun! Through talking to Marijka I remembered that my grandfather was a cartographer in the war and that my grandfather painted the birds that came to… Continue reading Hikoi and Korero
“Why Abstract Art?” by Kurt Varnedoe (2006)
Essay included in the Whitechapel Documents of contemporary art series book "ABSTRACT" edited by Maria Lind, published and printed by Whitechapel in collaboration with MIT university press, 2013. Here are the quotes and concepts I extracted from this text: "One of the valuable things about it [abstract art] does more feircly than a lot of… Continue reading “Why Abstract Art?” by Kurt Varnedoe (2006)
A CR experience
"I was sitting on the bus on my way home one evening after uni and as it pulled up outside the RNZ building I saw a very large green ad for the Auckland Transport bike campaign that was a very distinct bright avocado flesh green - and the traffic light was situated perfectly in the… Continue reading A CR experience
red flower, blue thorns.
I have been using oils under the lecturers recommendations and I have certainly noticed how it has changed how I'm working. I have been having issues with thinning the paint, so in these works the paint is thicker then id normally work with, but I like the qualities it has given me. As I was… Continue reading red flower, blue thorns.
Post Crit Ponderings
I really like the idea of "Harvesting" shapes, and the idea of "infected" colour. They both feel very apocalyptic to me and I enjoy that, especially since thats how I feel about the world right now. crit-10_3_21Download These are my typed notes from the critique with Ingrid, James, Hamish, and Tamara on Wednesday 10/3/21. I… Continue reading Post Crit Ponderings
Ripple Maps and Key Words
After hearing PhD students Emily Parr and Arielle Walker speak in our first Contextual Review class and seeing the beautiful ripple maps that Emily made I felt quite inspired to make my own - this way of formatting information tickled my brain and I needed to try it for myself. It was a really helpful… Continue reading Ripple Maps and Key Words
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