After requests from people who said this image couldn't be seen clearly online, here are a few details from the final print Apocalypse The Game (2010). The reason I don't post high definition images on my studio website is mostly copyright and intellectual property reasons, not that I don't want to share the details. Reproduction and scanning is good but staring at the painting live evokes a lot more depth and thought and hopefully an exhibition can be planned in the near future for all these paintings and prints from this series.In this print, from which I began to extract ...Read more>
Mark Twain once said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." That's race relations in Australia today. I admire the simple, straightforward call by Dr Charlie Teo for Australia to address racism on Australia Day. As an Asian-Australian I deeply sympathise with Dr Teo's speech. To experience physical and verbal abuse, exclusion and discrimination in one's society, employment or relationships for simply being who you are, it wears you down. It is especially so when the majority of people in your workplace and social environment simply deny it exists, which is what Dr Teo is addressing. Read the transcript ...Read more>
I noted this new coronal mass ejection as part of what will become a normal and disruptive occurance over the next 11 years. I have featured this in my painting The Emaculate Contraption because I think they will have an enormous affect on our environment. There are also no definitive tests that have been completed to assess the effect of this radiation on human physiology, which is why I have been doing drawings around the Fred and Matrushka dolls that are being used for such tests. I'm not sure if this is in anyway related to the savage heatwave we're ...Read more>
On mountains & cliffs of snow the awful apparition hover'd; And like the voices of religious dead, heard in the mountains: When holy zeal scents the sweet valleys of ripe virgin bliss; Such was the hollow voice that o'er America lamented.- William Blake, America A Prophecy 1793This is a collage ...Read more>
I'm taking a digital sabbatical between January and February, unless there's a major solar storm, or a media post to post. That means I won't be on social media such as Facebook, however, but I am always happy to hear from people through my Contact page on this website. Until ...Read more>
Within the last 72 hours, soldier's cheered the closing of the gates and the end of the Iraq War which has destroyed more than the lives of nearly 4,840 soldiers (4,500 American) plus a conservatively reported 100,000 Iraqi lives.It destroyed our trust in our capacity to overcome our nature. It ...Read more>
Enough words. The breathtaking beauty of the Nightblooming Cereus (Hylocereus undatus) on our front porch brings me back to what matters. It's so startling in its perfection, it's temporary existence, which is here and gone in one night. Like us. Who needs a temple? ...Read more>
I want to post Richard Flanagan's very brave and eloquent extract from his closing address at the 2011 Melbourne Writers' Festival-‘The Australian Disease: The Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-freedom’ . It's strange, ten years ago the reasoning behind this piece wouldn't be under such siege as ...Read more>
I'm always grateful to Edge for bringing up things the mainstream media don't focus on. This is an important post from Edge.org, Code Is Law, introduced by influential German journalist and essayist Frank Schirrmacher [11.7.11]. It's a bit hard to follow with some of the code terminology, but there is ...Read more>
