This blog is essentially a personal journey of discovery, a scrapbook where I file my thoughts, feelings and contemplations on the reasons for and process of artmaking. It’s also my sketchbook for work in progress and experimentation. I hope that letting others into this journey will firstly provide opportunities for interactions that contribute to this journey, and will also provide inspiration and encouragement to others on similar journeys.
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Language is uniquely human and has driven our success as a species, but it comes with a major drawback – the power of words to harm our mental health. With this project, I’m making words the subjects of images to explore the power they have over us.
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I painted these figs, fresh from the tree in Greece, with acrylics, working fast as the paint dried in the heat.
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Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making
I’ve been continuing my exploration of out-of-focus photography with architecture and not only created some images I really like but learnt some useful lessons for taking this project forward.
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I recently spent some time photographing the petals of perished flowers, making sketch images to see what the light was doing and what kind of compositions worked.
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Newly inspired, I took my camera into the streets for the first time with a new perspective, free to follow my own vision of creating visual design from the environment. Some of the images resonate with what I was trying to do, and that feels good because they were made with a clear intention in mind.
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I’ve always liked street photography, but as I’ve thought more about what I’m trying to achieve with photographs, I’ve been struggling to understand how street photography fits in. The thoughts of street photographer Sean Tucker have unlocked this conundrum for me.
… A vision for street photography
Beginnings are hard. The first steps of a creative project are full of uncertainties and fear that can stop you from starting at all. If they’re allowed to breed, these fears can leave you lost in a creative desert, not knowing which way to turn to reach civilization. In his latest book, David DuChemin attempts to crush these fears with a simple mantra: Start Ugly.
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In the history of art, the ‘why’ has always come first. And if you want to make art, and keep making art, you need to know what your ‘why’ is.
… The importance of knowing ‘why’
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