One that didn't make the cut

portrait with prosthetic nose
juji chew 2007

Really Happening

sorry about the chair in the middle... it's not supposed to be there.

My exam is really going to happen.
I am currently trying not to hyperventilate.

The prints turned out beautifully (hundreds of $$ later), which is good. A huge thank you to my "patrons" who know who they are, for saving me from a fate of horribly finished/wrong colour/bad paper/too small print alternatives.

They're about A1 in size - rather, they fit in an A1 page. The white borders make me think of polaroids, and I can't get the idea out of my head that the lighting in the third image from the right reminds me of something by Corrinne Day or Mario Testino. HA. Cos I am totally as good as they are.

Maybe it was Wolfgang Tillmans or Juergen Teller.
Either way, I think it's somewhat obvious I probably list "fashion photography" as a direct interest and influence.

Dear Marc Jacobs,
Hire me for your next ad campaign.
I can totally be your new Cindy Sherman.
from Juji xx

ha

Hirst's Shark Arrives at Met (New York Times, October 16)

Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 13-foot-long shark preserved in 4,360 gallons of formaldehyde, has taken up residence in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art after six weeks of installation work. Owned by hedge-fund titan Steven A. Cohen, who purchased the 1991 piece for $8 million, the sea creature will terrify visitors to the museum for the next three years. Hirst had to replace the original shark last year because it had begun to rot. In a related story, the artist has been busy repairing another of his works, Mother and Child, Divided, an installation of a bisected cow and calf in four formaldehyde tanks housed in the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, due to a tank leak.

sigh of relief

Thank christ.

The end, I can actually see it!

The hard uni-work is almost done (ie. essay, and supporting documents)
Now all I have to do is have my photos printed (or rather, organise said printing), the installation, the sounds, the overall look.

I can see it in my head, and it looks good.

I feel somewhat better now.

attempting authenticity

(via flickr)

about as yellow as they come.

I’m about as yellow as they come.

You’d think so, looking at me, with my slanty eyes and

my black hair.

I’m about as yellow as they come.

It doesn’t matter that I was born in this country, or

that I’ve lived here my whole life.

I’m about as yellow as they come.

Don’t worry about where my parents were born or where their parents were born

(because we all look the same anyway),

it doesn’t matter anyway,

because you know,

you probably saved my country in that war.

I’m about as yellow as they come.

I’m practicing saying it in un-accented English so

you’ll understand me completely.

I’m about as yellow as they come.

And anyway,

I’m sure it doesn’t matter what I look like on the inside.

If You See Something, Say Something

Peter Carlino, James Doohan & Deni

As part of the Revelation Film Festival The Breadbox Gallery is hosting the new video installation If You See Something, Say Something by WA artists Peter Carlino, James Doohan & Deni. Focusing on the absurdity of the impending notion of catastrophe within contemporary life, If You See Something, Say Something is an exhibition exploring our histories and future. In a world of cautionary tales, urban legends, there is a rich territory of themes, transgression, phenomena, prophecy, morality, as well as heeding (or not) of such stories.

Dodo's and animated decapitated heads (the ones i did!) take on an absurd tongue-in-cheek symbolism of unheeded cautionary tales, which perhaps have more relevance today than ever before, as some of the themes of the works showcased will include environmental damage and animal extinction as caused by the advancement of modernity.

If You See Something, Say Something, opens Friday July 6 from 6 pm.

6th Jul, '07 to 28th Jul, '07

via artrage.com.au/breadbox