On a day only good for for chocolate and neurofen I bring you some snippets (unfortunately not the tasty lime and chili snack version- oh rats - now I want those).
A while back I saw the Observance exhibition at Pataka of Nicola Dove’s amazing photos. These are worth a revisit here. These portraits attempt to convey religious intensity using long exposures and a 5×4 camera. “people from many different faiths and nationalities make up this study of humanity’s compelling and universal search for meaning and understanding. Each sitter was asked to mentally recite their favourite prayer or mantra whilst looking into the camera.” I hope Pamela doesn’t mind me picking on her photo for this entry (I like it a lot).
Pamela, Druid, New Zealand
Dear Art Please Touch Me: ”Danielle Freakley’s work for the recently completed Next Wave Festival was a project called Dear Art Don’t Touch Me. Visitors to the National Gallery of Victoria could hire iPods and take a walk through the galleries to hear wild and fanciful stories behind the pictures. For those who couldn’t make it to the gallery during Next Wave cheer up because, as Freakley writes, you can download an MP3 of the audio tour from the Dear Art website.”
A beautiful entry on found notes and art. “Thinking again about Stephen Shore’s project of collecting and documenting ephemera from his road trip reminded me of the slightly more downmarket Found project.” Do check this blog entry out - its rather wonderful. The concept of ‘found’ appeals to me and my current ‘obsession’ with the ephemeral.
When I was an ‘adult student’ at uni, and I worked occasionally at the student radio station, there was a band around called “Nana Squad”. For some reason the name seems appropriate just now and I may claim it for our pink vested crew.
