Self Portrait: oppress

crazy cool blog

http://sacred-geometry.tumblr.com/

Link to Vimeo view of the video installation

It's all about me and a bit about Trinity Buoy Wharf

Emulsion, terry cloth towel, string, calico

breath.it

About three months later

http://ichbinleonn.tumblr.com/

 

confession

'All my subject matter comes out if my real experiences in life. Whether or not it's the truth or whether or not it it's honest, it's about how I feel about something at the time and I think that's a real thing. I don't have a clever conceptual idea, I have an emotion and I turn it into something. I turn that actually into a reality, into an object or a book or whatever.'

Tracey Emin

A bit of sewing I have been doing.

Emin

Emin 'Sometimes I feel'. I was never very open to discovering the world of Tracey Emin and I always wrote her off as an egotistic artist. But recently I am taking the time to understand her world and her way and I am finding a lot of comfort in her work.

I want to explore the sense of intimacy that is connected to emotional and physical attachment, interdependence and a longing for fulfillment

Maps, there is something to be done

Steven Soderbergh is helping me to make sense of things.

“Why do we create? What is art for exactly? I don’t always know the answer to that but…I guess the answer is that, in the moment of experiencing art, you’re not alone…You’re connected to another human being, often in a way that transcends description…I believe we would be diminished if we didn’t have that particular form of human connection…I want in that moment, for that person to feel like I gave them everything that I have. I feel like I owe them that. I feel like we owe each other that.” 

 Thanks Al

Where does the notion of 'art' reside?

In the idea? In the action? In the product? 

of course, this is completely subjective, but it is a question I finally asked myself today. 

and I am still undecided. 

Just Kids by Patti Smith. Carry me away

Although I don't actually have time to be reading, I considered this to be my small escape from the work, school, tube pattern of life. Now that I am reading it, I have discovered how relevant it actually is to everything I am doing. I have found so much comfort in this book, so thank you Patti.

"I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination" (Pg 65)

the installation

A two minute loop, no sound. Still contemplating if I want sound or not.

Darrel Morris, 'Teeth'

As I am looking at meticulous and crafty artworks, I came across Darrel Morris who spends his time embroidering. Find more of his work here: http://www.saic.edu/gallery/saic_gallery.php?type=Faculty&album=939

Black and White: by me, for me

Dark room developments

regardless of the time

A few of my 70cm by 115cm drawing/collages I did living in Paris. I needed something to take up my time, and these meticulous works did the job well. Made in early 2010