1.ink on canvas. 2. ink on acid-free card. 6th February, 2013
Walking towards a focused dream, and working with it,
achieves goals.
THERE IS A RIVER
ELEPHANT ON THE PIANO
Elephant on The Piano. Ink on acid free card. May 2009
By the title, one would expect an elephant playing a piano. How absurd! 🙂
It was actually a beautifully decorated resin vase that became broken through a kitten
climbing onto my piano, and shoving it off in the excitement. 🙁
The symbol of the crocodile hanging onto the side of a Wheel Of Fortune, in a stellar atmosphere, has its own Metaphysical meaning.
PICKING FLOWERS. 2008
Picking Flowers. Ink on architectural paper. 11th April, 2008
There is something beautiful about the sheen of the paper and the black of the ink
that makes the drawing light up when viewed.
TONY SAVAGERIO: UNLOCKING THE FOREIGN PSYCHE
Ink on acid-free card. 2008
This is about a UK artist friend of mine who, in the 1970’s rallied all over England for an anti drugs campaign.
The campaign was highly successful , reducing the drug trafficking up to 70 percent. Not without
terrible gang vindication. Tony was shot twice, and in this drawing shows him being shot.
Many years on, artist Tony Savages still lives to tell his gruesome and heroic tale.
RELATIO INTERRUPTUS . 2007
Relatio Interruptus. Ink on acid free card. 11 June 2007.
This drawing is about how some men can sometimes congregate egoistically at barbecues,
while they piss up, and leave the women out. A mixture of bravado, arrogance, and macho attitude seems to occur.
I have found this is more in the older age bracket of the 60’s plus group, but I could well believe that where there is a barbecue, and a group of men drinking their booze, the possibility may just occur there too. Is this purely an Australian cultural habit?
LIZARDS
Ink drawing on acid-free paper. July 2006
The idea for this was to draw what isn’t real as a real image and to use the positive spacing as a
negative interpretation. So for example, the naked lady daydreaming of monsters attacking her is
being attacked by lizards, with a man drawn facing her, thought there is a face
drawn on the back of his jacket, looking the other way. Other images drawn in this imaginatively convoluted drawing are
nerd head, king’s head, crossed, houses, a letter, a clown, a rose, a shower head with sprays and drips, buildings , snake,
steps, roads that lead to nowhere, cogs and loopy tubing, other odd bits, and lizards attacking as if on a city!
I think Freud may have something to think about with this one!
HIGH PRIESTESS
ink on acid free paper. July, 2006
Three types of chests are being exposed here. The High Priestess is exposing her chest, there is
also a chest fulls of skulls in it, and the lid is wide open, and also the chest of drawers, which both drawers are open
of which the top drawer is full to the brim of coins. She holds one of them in her right hand
which she guards close to her body.
The Sun rises in the East. There is a Mobilum above her head
which signifies infinity and the endless circles of cycles. There is a mirror on the wall behind the chest of drawers
which reflects the back of her head and crown. The night sky in the East…or is it the West?…
shows an apple tree with 9 apples. Her right foot is shackled, with a key right beside it to unlock it any time. Her left foot looks clubbed,
or perhaps, protecting the shackled foot. The wall and the flooring are woven matting, and is full of square, white spacing into
nothingness…or white light from the sun? An arrow with three hearts surrounding it points directly at her head. She wears a star
on a necklace on her chest. The Moon is high in the black sky.
The concept of this drawing is full of Esoteric symbolism.
JAM PACKED
Drawing on acid free paper. April, 2006
When I’m busy , soo busy with art work, sometimes some parts
of the table are reserved for sanity..and it STILL gets messy too!
FOCUS SERIES
Drawing on Acid- free card. September 2005
Focus Series is a conceptual set of four black and white drawings,
each of the four stages in how we assimilate information.
Focus in Perspective is the way we start to see the patterning and draw
conclusions from that information and draw a perspective on that information.
The second drawing, Focus in Objective is when we identify what we can see,
and draw it out and examine it as an object.
Focus In Subjective is where we throw it back into our brain and synthesise the
information against all other objects of information.
The compartments are where each fact is stored and the diagonal lines represent the neurons
sending and receiving information for comparison
and deduction.
The fourth drawing, Focus Introspective, (sometimes I call this drawing ‘Pumpkin Head!),
is about the processing of all the information,
melding and assimilating it back into the new patterning of inward knowledge, and becoming it.
Thus, the insatiable urge of the thirsting for knowledge.
WUSSS BLUFF COY.
Ink on acid free glossy paper. 2005
What sort of experiences have you had at a large corporate company? Mine was with the Wusss Bluff Company.
Thats was in 2005. Draw about it. Best not to talk about it…. (mmm?!)