A.L.S.O.
ART
This is not a tattoo
Starting late.
A new path hacked into concrete barriers.
Climbing through thorns.
One of the joys of my life has been spending hours, days and years in the company of remarkable artists at Jugglers Art Space.
Osmotic impact.
Observation companionship.
Resistant to class rooms, nervous of confrontation and assessment after years in all kinds of suspect learning modalities. The long view is shortening now. But determination is DNA inscribed. Starting late means giving up or not giving up.
One of the practice exercises someone suggested is the self-portrait. Books are filled and filling with iterations of the drawings that developed into a painting. I am not a painter and I don’t paint. But this one is a mixed media painting. During the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing at Jugglers [ 2010 – 2019] the judges would sometimes pontificate on works that were too painterly even though ink and paint are valid drawing media. Maybe mine is a drawing in mixed media or a painting that looks like a drawing in mixed media.
The painting began as my regular graphite drawing exercise – observation/eye hand coordination – every year 12 student does this, and any drawing artist who makes marks I suppose does this. This is at about year 8 standard.
RE-draw with ink and red pencil and guache looks strangely infantile with the red marks indicative of some kind of representation of my emotion and deep affect in respect of the war in Gaza. The painting has evolved into an icon. Collage from found book pages as props for deeper contemplation. Gold ink adding religious attributes with bags under my eyes in ink are my late night anxieties and more. The patriarchal cross with its slanted extra beam and inverted on my shirt – what’s happening there? A nod to the patriachy’s death roll maybe, a joke, a shirt and hat bought at the local St Vinnies. A careful read of the collage pages not selected for their text as much as the overall impact of “So Many Words” reveal implications of my thoughts and intentions: Perpetuity, Persistence, Perseverance.
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