i.d.yll

i.d.yll

First image of a new series of work I am doing. I'm looking for a certain directness in the image as well as mystery. I have been investigating different notions of assumed power, prestige as well as the anxiety that surrounds portraiture. 

shuffling along

I have been lazy lately. Here's something I've been working on the last couple of days. Inspired by that faceless pursuer that haunts our dreams and mine of late. I'll keep you posted

check it out

http://www.redbull.co.nz/cs/Satellite/en_NZ/Video/subsim-the-wall-video-021243080767535

What contemporary artists should aspire to

All those that have seen this on youtube or the news or even better; have directly experienced or have been involved in a flash mob will have seen the crowds responses. I don't think I've seen one where a crowd has expressed negative responses. You can actually see people joining in or smiling or laughing and then when the whole performance is over they applause... but don't let me taint the experience with words, here are a few examples:

In Antwerp

New York

London

and more locally

The title above says what artists should aspire to; I guess what I mean by that isn't just pleasing the public but getting on that wavelength that touches on the universal. Paul Rand puts it in a really good way when he says:

Bromidic (made common through over use) advertising catering to [the bad taste of the man in the street] merely perpetuates that mediocrity and denies him the most easily accessible means of aesthetic development.

Our cultural gateway isn't the gallery or the museum anymore but the "easily accessible" - among the people.

Lol I've just become a fan

Some of my work from My Alias exhibition http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/4064983/Artworks-investigate-covered-faces . Will  put up more images of works that I'm doing now.