This is my HSC artwork, a group of sculptures created from various plastics that I placed upon a light box, to give them a rather disturbing artificial 'glow', as well as allowing the viewer to be able to see completely through them. They are based on the idea of the deep oceans, a place that is still extensively unchartered and a mystery to the human race. They also respresent both the intrigue and the fear of the unknown to the human race, who are used to dominating the earth and animal kingdom. I created these sculptures by collecting various plastics ( bottles mostly) from both my home recycling and a fantastic place called 'Reverse Garbage' in Marickville (http://www.reversegarbage.org.au/- a warehouse that resells industrial waste to the community for creative and practical purposes.) I then cut the bottles into various designs, melted them in boiling water and bound them together to create the a group of peculiar 'creatures'. Creating these sculptures was very 'developmental'. no sculpture was planned, but more so, came together by combining the various materials until each was visually interesting and complete.The photo doesn't do justice to the work... It is best seen in person.
'Hemesferic' - Santiago Calatrava
I find this building so beautiful as it is so suggestive of many forms, making it really interesting for people to interpret and explore in their own right. On first sight this building reminded me of two things. The first was an oyster with a pearl emerging from the depths of the ocean, and the second was a giant eye ( the image that inspired the architect himself) The inner ball is used as an IMAX theatre and planetarium..... and the building even has an 'eyelid' made of steel and glass, and operated by hydraulic lifts. In Calatrava's creative process he spends a lot of time drawing and sketching images of birds in flight, bulls, faces and other forms from nature. Many of his works are made from concrete, a material whose flexibility and fluidity is essential for the forms he creates.
I took this photo last year when I was staying in the city of Granada in Spain. It was taken during 'Semana Santa', the Spanish easter break in which every day of the week, statues retelling the story of Jesus' death and resurrection are paraded in the streets. There is an amazing atmosphere in the streets. Everywhere you go you can hear the strange almost off tune songs of brass bands or the beating of drums, and the air is thick with the smell of incense and baked potatoes, which are sold on the footpaths. I find this photo really eerie and beautiful, as the processions are themselves. I think this photo really emits the sense of ritual and tradition in semana santa, as well as showing it's energy. I love the way the darkness has cut off and framed the almost artificial white figure. It's almost as if the photo was taken peeping out of a window. I also love the rushing heads of the crowd, that kind of portray the procession as some kind of secret guild or cult ritual.
Fiona Hall
Dead in the Water, 1999
pvc pipe, glass beads, wire, vitrine
106.5 x 128 x 128cm
vitrine dimensions
Lure, oppose, intricate
Rosalie Gascoigne
Ledger, 1992
sawn/split soft drink crates on plywood
80.7 x 43cm
Glimpse, shift, evocative
Tracey Moffat
Heart Attack, 1970, 1994
Series of 9 images
off set print
80 x 60cm
Edition of 50
Narrative, stir, suggestive
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