Doves night ride to Port Melb./St Kilda...

Hannah breathes steam in the cold...

family of flowers...

went out for a shoot with my friend hubert who was doing a fashion shoot.
i decided to just go along and have a look and help out.
some different shots of different things...
also met some sisters who are friends of his, holly-rose and clover.
they have 8 children in their family and they're all named after plants/flowers.
thought that was lovely.

Look at me...

The holy rollers are taking over the church...

Creepy Minister Exploits The Elderly

Doves Cycling Crew Promos...

Flock of DOVES:

Work by Hollis Brown Thornton...

Some amazing work linked to me by Stefhany.
Love the manual method used to crop and delete the subjects from the images.




All acrylic, pigment transfer on paper.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollisbrownthornton/
How to use the same process: http://www.hollisbrownthornton.com/information/transfer.htm

come to believe...

"Leo was the love of my life(cat!)"

taken from my work in progress at the moment.
my mum's cat from when she was living on her own in a flat in albert park.

they've disappeared - series...

probably the most important things to me growing up were the family i did have and my much loved pets.
as i didn't really spend too much time with my english grandma due to the overseas boundary. I wasn't too attached to her.
The same was for my australian grandma, although my brother and i were close when we were younger. As she went down hill mentally and phsycially, we sort of got separated in seeing each other.
So therefore when they both died i wasn't as upset as i probably thought i would be.
But as for my pets. Which both died recently after having them for such a long time.
Probably hit me harder...
They remain by your side every day.
You come home.
Having had a shit day, and they're waiting to comfort you.
So when they died, i was devastated.
Which was strange considering the lack of emotin i had when my grandmothers died...

presenting my folio...

So i think I've decided on a presentation method for folio review.
I'm going to collate some of my images and writing into an old book.
I was going through one of many bookcases filled with my mum's old books.
And i came across an old book titled 'Came to believe...' 'The spiritual adventure of A.A as experienced by individual members.'
Knowing first hand what my mum's been through, i thought it would be a very strong theme to explore in combination with my work. And as I'm using some family portraits and images of her, it would be relevant.

I thought using the book as the bones for my images and work to be displayed in would create something very emotive.
So using the pages as frames, I'll mount my small images and relevant work within the book's existing pages.