The latest developments in my Silueto series of public art interventions that place my body in a political relationship with the landscape.
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Penetration by Dick Pic in Peer-to-Peer Pornography
The project explores the way that pornography in the form of dick pics penetrates our bodies through phone tower and wifi electromagnetic radiation even if we never see the image.
Fowlers Gap: Landscapes
Documenting the outback landscape at Fowlers Gap with paintings, performances, and photographs.
Fowlers Gap: Cyanotypes
I use cyanotypes to document my passage through the arid Australian outback landscape at Fowlers Gap.
Fowlers Gap: Photography
A journal entry about my photography practice and some of the hundreds of shots I made on my trip to the Australian outback.
Fowlers Gap: Ceramics
Playing with clay at Fowlers Gap… it’s like being at summer camp!
Long Drawings
“Long drawing” is an interference technique I developed in Drawing 3 to stop myself from being precious with my mark-making. I tend to agonise over the way that what goes into my eyes doesn’t come out of my hand. UPDATE: I have since learned that the foundation of this technique is known as “blind contourContinue reading “Long Drawings”
Silueto
The Fowlers Gap Interventions My initial proposal for our visit to Fowlers Gap was to explore my bodily relationship with the land by revisiting an ongoing series of body/land/performance artworks. My first Silueto was a straightforward scratch in the dirt of the driveway just after breakfast. Morning cross-light put the mark into relief. I choseContinue reading “Silueto”
#AHundredHundreds
During Sydney’s (first) COVID-19 lockdown, the gyms were closed, the outdoor exercise equipment was fenced off, and bodyweight training triggered a migraine, so I found myself with no way to exercise other than going for walks around the neighbourhood. It didn’t do anything good for my feet but it loosened up my lower back, aContinue reading “#AHundredHundreds”
Silueto – Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs
The second post in my Silueto series features locations in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.