MY NEW SUSPENSION PROJECT: mini model draft 2, talking about sensation simulation era

This project is so much fun. The images I have posted are a little prototypes for some sculptures I am going to start as soon as I play and navigate my way around how to express the idea better.

I love sewing, threading. Laborious repetitive processes, the idea of suspended space, giving space a physicality, and accessible solids (like an x-ray vision into an inaccessible space. Interactive but not integrated (you cannot enter the space of the artwork, so there are invisible barriers) like the decline of sensation in the cut paste generation. (Living on the knowledge fast track plane and not the sensory primary response plane.

(sensation simulation era)

What to put inside the block of space…? & what is suspended, situated, and relative in it /to it.
This will be determined by the direction of our collaborative body of work (exhibition 2011) (‘our’ being myself and a friend, Thomas C Chung, http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasturtlechung/show/) “somewhere/Anywhere” the idea of location, place, is our base (so far) and whether I go with an ‘objective-subjective’ division or focus simply on the suspension element. I am Enjoying creating forms that rise and fall in the space through rhythms and weight imbalances.
Outside of this, I am currently mapping the spaces between things and am obsessed with love, so no doubt

Bla bla bla…
The image below is the first draft where I wanted to connect the styro with pins. The pins were too heavy, fiddly, needed glue and looked crafty.
I then moved on to sewing, the images above are sewn in white thread in an enclosed foam space, the thirds draft will be in invisible thread and Perspex walls. Ideally, if I could fill an entire room and fill the space without barriers this would be perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Actually, if that room had see through walls…. ove will play a huge part in trying to tell my story, (or lack of) (OR investigation of

my new kaleidoscopic images, in prayer

(October sketches from an amazingly clean studio)


new work: on location. Kaleidoscopic, fractured, multifaceted lens. particle theory and connection

subject: tiny images in prayer

sensation overload and confusion. temporal sculpture can wait
operation: this time I forget to think hopefully so I can feel when I am making.

dionysis and apollo undercurrents...chaos and order and alchemy (understanding the practice)

a little big bang, a little anti matter, a little religion, quantum physics and newtonian gravity, and a lot of anti existentialism. Plato and good old Ole Hoystadt(History of the heart). The idea of a tree falling in a forest & does it make a sound. to exist is to be observed? ,maybe. then how is the observer observed... ego, super ego...rah rah rahh...and so on and so on...a little cyber identity, new age plasticity and matrix stuff out the door. I am finished now with plastic fantastic and the constructed world. Flux, you can stay. still

BIOS - Trabajador@s del Arte - Sandra Nakamura / CDAPC

2 artists: Sandra Nakamura & François de Sabourin

As I am in art stasis at the moment (Studio overhaul) I am still doting on art I love and checking out the work of friends as a healthy past time. Sandra and I studied at UCSD (uni of California San Diego)in 2002, and lived together, and thought about putting bubble bath in the fountain together etc..François I met randomly in Belfast, Ireland. I watched him draw, so perfectly, but only a nose. So I think of Gogol, The Russian Novelist and I treasure it because I will never be sure if it is incomplete or not. It sits perfectly looking normal, ambiguously on the top left of the page...tbc when I am at my own pc and able to upload some images. In the meantime:
SANDRA NAKAMURA
Working with everyday materials and situations, Sandra Nakamura creates temporary interventions in which she seeks to actively engage the public. Many of her works are based on the gathering, accumulation, and distribution of objects...

MY CONTRACT STIPULATES 15 DAYS OF VACATION February 2007
Jena, Germany


Thinking about the significance commuting has in our daily lives, I calculated that if a given person in a city like Jena spends an hour per day on public transportation, after the course of one year, this would amount to 15 days of travel time.

During 15 days, the lights on the inside of a streetcar on Line 1 (Zwäten – Winzerla) were made pink. This route was selected for this intervention because it best illustrated the relationship between commute and work, traveling from a residential neighborhood and through the city center, to the industrial area of Jena. On the other hand, pink lighting offered stark contrast to the bland, office-like atmosphere of white fluorescent lights, brown seat covers, and tan fixtures on standard streetcars in hope that the experience of commuters would be transformed.

I had never before thought that a color alone could embody the feeling of vacation until I stood on Jena’s Paradise Bridge. Although I have never been to Miami, the bridge made me think of pink flamingos and an extravagant weekend in Miami. And it was just because the bridge was pink, all of it.


François de Sabourin

Xing Junqin ~ on military meditation

(apologies to www.bankuart, for poaching your images for my collecting pleasure)
I checked out some of Xing Junqin's art at White Rabbit Gallery in Chippendale www.whiterabbitgallery.org

opening night pictures

I have posted a few pictures from the opening night we had in Binalong august 28 for the exhibition 'construction sites'which I had been working on for the last 12 months. The show was an amalgamation of two exhibitions, with similar themes of new vanitas paintings (see statement in the about me section of this blog- rather appropriate with the vanitas theme on a personal note!) and the contrast of consumer culture and our temporality..flux and the constant state of building in our lives. I will put pictures up of my work soon.