h e a r t a n k l e b i r d

my art inspirations

AL HELD

KIM MACCONNELL

DUGGIE FIELDS

GEORGE SNYDER

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TOM WESSELMANN

FRANZ WEST AND SOL LEWITT

why do i keep beating myself with a hammer? cos it feels so good when i stop.

i have been so sick in bed with flu thing since tuesday and really sore throat but today i have managed to sit up and make some plasticine specimans for my next project... i have also been binge watching greys anatomy a show ive been interested in watching since i saw the ads.. love a good hospital drama an i know im like 10 years late to the game by dr mcdreamy ULTIMATE...

im looking at studying social work online while i finish my bachelor... being sick means a lot of time for personal reflection and for over a year now ive been absolutely miserable with sydney.. Seeing my best mates in cnbra made me realise i only need to get through the next year an half of my degree and im outta here. I just need to make the most of it.. work hard and it will be over. So heres to no more pointless partying with the same old people that make me feel not so good about myself and heres to studying and working hard making more and moving onwards and upwards from here. And maybe one day ill find a mr mcdreamy along the way yum.

Jory Rabinovitz

In 1983, the U.S. government began minting pennies with a ratio of 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper—an inverse of the previous formula of 95% copper and 5% zinc. The coin had become increasingly more valuable as a commodity of copper than as the molecule of a fiat currency. This decision would ensure to repress speculative desires to hoard, melt and debase the coin. Martos Gallery is pleased to present Eighty Three, a solo exhibition of new works by Jory Rabinovitz, on view from April 18 through June 7 with an opening reception on Friday, April 18 from 6 – 8 pm.

In this new body of work, Rabinovitz starts with common US one-cent coins. First separating pre and post 1983 coins, he then refines them to their base metal, copper and zinc, then oxidizes them to produce pigment—copper making Viridian Green and Zinc producing Zinc White. The pigments are bonded in place by fabric, brick and concrete and the cameos of the coins etched onto the metals.

Jory Rabinovitz is a sculptor. To see more click here. Or visit Martos Gallery from now till through June 7, 2014.

does art have to trigger critical thought or can it be purely aestheic? i think both. whatever floats your boat!!!! both require a certain level of skill to succesfully achieve. to me i think its as long as it creates an intense sensation be it visually, or mentally.... this can be mind altering.. whatever makes yout think!

all my past relationships have been a mash up of me.. parts of me i am lacking and want.. but who am i really... i must break free of perpetually living a complelty hidden life.

nature

what do you believe nature to be?? to me its whatever is not man made but purely from the earth. Some may argue that evolution is natural therefore ipads and iphones are natural. i disagree...

why is it easier to forgive the natural world for bushfires and tornadoes that unfortunately happen because of natural disasters but then we kill a man for murder or rape... even tho apparently those things are natural? they come from man? man is natural by evolution??? or is it easier?? i dont know as i have not been effected by bushfires tornadoes rape or murder?? why do we look on the natural world that it is such a purist idea?? but then argue that computers are natural they come from man??

when i think about my past relationships.. now.. looking back i see a fire ripping through from beginning to end.. the beginning its a spark then you are overwhelmed with love.. the fire rips through the love disappears for them and you are left with their remains an they have gone on to cinders and smoke... such a dramatic metaphor!

is nature like a zoo?? a constructed place that we put animals in??? is that what it is becoming??? take iceland for instance.. it is not the thick lush forest filled land that i thought it was.. forestry has turned this country into a treeless landscape... man has destroyed the natural word.

one last thing?? do you think you need to experience drudgery in your life to enjoy nature?? i think so.. i grew up in the country in central western new south wales.. i remember visitors coming to stay and just loving sitting outside in the bush... but it was just my backyard... these days i crave nothing more than the rolling hills and countryside.. no traffic noise.. no trains... ughhh people yelling out drunkenly at all hours of the night... or maybe thats just growing up.

humour and ART

the way we perceive art is a lot like a joke. art isn the same way as a joke allows us to investigate an idea which is really stupid. such as romance.. red roses.. ugh.. seriously.. pass me a bucket.. hannah raisin has done this well...

http://hannahraisin.com/wp/portfolio/rose-garden/

what is laughter???

its a build up of tension, i personally use humour to diffuse a situation. not conciously it just happens out of the tension you could cut with a knife.. this happened to me in year 8 when i got a detention for laughing at LORD OF THE FLIES when piggy got hit in the head with a boulder an died. the teacher was horrified at me laughing at someones expense.

i think this is why i find andy warhol soo intriguing and others that are deadpan and ambivelant.. its cos i never know if they are being serious or not... a quality i find so attractive. maybe because deep down i know they are joking and it breaks the tension between us??

sometimes something funny is comedic because it takes a subject and milks it for all its worth till its so over done and taken too far you have to laugh at the ridicule..

anyway just as matisses "joy of life" painting suggests. life should be full of simplicity and untainted.. laugh when tension rises to diffuse situations.. no one likes a stresshead drama queen

nathan carter

inspired obviously by the Bauhaus mobiles of alexander calder, Nathan carter makes structurally ridiculous sculptures that represent communication systems or the miscommunication in the world.. ahh im so inspired!! gonna get some coathangers and make some mobiles of my own!