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?!)

 

 

GENIE AND THE LADY

 

 

Ink on acid-free paper. 2005

In 2005, I had to go and get abdominal exploratory tests.

Frankly, I was a bit upset by the whole process, and the inconvenience of recuperation.
So, I drew this drawing showing the fears one can have in regards into the unknown:

Cocoons being found inside your body, and animals and nursery rhyme characters

all turning into mischievous taunting nightmare things!

It’s enough to make you do a drawing about it!

 

 

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