super happy fun jasmine springtime

one year art projects

perhaps it would be nice to make a drawing/painting each day for a year. one year art projects are pretty amazing. tehching hsieh is truly the master. he didn't make art for a year, lived outside for year, was imprisoned in a cage for a year and was attached to a fellow artist for a year by an eight foot long rope. here is the first drawing, chinese calligraphers have to be able to paint a straight line first of all.

and and and...

some images from and and and... (first work is by nicola holden, the second by yona lee)
soon there will be a wonderful catalogue/poster/document so you can read/see all about it...

the exhibition runs for one more day, the george fraser gallery will be open tomorrow (saturday 25 september) from 11-4pm.

pins & needles & cat-claws

a couple iv

the complexity of simplicity

John Ward Knox's work is beautiful in its restraint and its simplicity, in which only one or two materials seem to act upon one another

tiny grains of sand join together to create a weightiness, indenting a pillow like a sleepy head...
wooden walls become pliable, like loosely draped bed sheets...
a chain and wire are held together in an elegant kind of tension...
His works are simple, understated and perfectly poetic!

Image: Untitled 2008 pillow, sand

From the group show 'Happy ending'

a couple iii

swing-song

this is super-swing by agnes so. it reminds me a lot of the mike parr piece, because it is difficult to look at it without imagining a performance of swinging trapeze-like tricks. (I will endeavor to take a better image!!)

spring rain

this photograph was taken by rosie.

I AM (HERE) - variations 1-11

I AM (HERE) - variations 1-11

I Am (Here): Variations 1-11 is an attempt to capture the fleeting rhythms and beauty that exist outside one's own bedroom windows. It could be described as "domestic portraiture".

The overall aesthetic is a lo-fi meditation on time and place, it tries to capture the look, feel and spirit of polaroid snapshots. The video draws inspiration from Pascal (Pensées), Xavier de Maistre (Journey Around My Room), John Cage (Silence) and Tarkovsky's polaroids (Instant Light).

Video Info: Shot on a sharp viewcam (hi-8mm - analog) with direct mic sound only (the music by Debussy was recorded live while shooting), all effects were achieved 'in-camera' and nature did the rest ...

hair.

liyen chong creates small drawings from hair.
some are like clams, some are like bowls or plates.
(some pieces are made from the hair of the mother of francis upritchard.)
some of liyen's drawings will be exhibited at anna bibby gallery.
do come!

liyen chong (with richard orjis & heather straka)
september 8-25, 2010
anna bibby gallery
226 jervois rd, herne bay, auckland.

opening: wednesday 8 september 17.30 - 19.30