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"I overheard another teacher tell a concerned couple, 'That could be the reason that your child may end up developing interpersonal difficulties,' and then the couple was shown a drawing of a platypus their son had made and was told that an average platypus should look 'less deranged.'"
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This work seems to be very rooted in place, story and daily life. The bold lines, abstract compositions and raw textures and materials remind me of ground and earth and general physicality. It most reminds me of Aboriginal Australian artwork actually. They have a lyrical and musical aspect in their visual rhythms have a kind of narrative (aboriginal stories generally being in song). The aboriginals paint these allegorical paintings of their 'dreamtime' which is a uniquely aboriginal view of creationism and basically instructs the way their culture operates (I won't get in to this... it’s a big topic but I suggest you look in to it). What interested me most about aboriginal work at first was that they would take very interesting visual perspectives in their paintings and most of them are actually painted as if looking up from beneath the ground. I see these maps as a kind of updated version of this. What I think is funny is that this must be a very intuitive kind of work because I have done very similar work to yours in the past (I guess we have the same academic background and general interests though. I guess great minds and all...)
Some examples of what I was talking about:
This is a highly geographical composition
http://karaart.com/aboriginalart/kemp/03.jpg
For example The 'U's represent people sitting that we are viewing from below.
http://www.artsansfrontieres.com.au/ASF_Australian_Aboriginal_Paintings/212%20bush%20tucker%20mary%20dixon.JPG
Basically I like your idea but I think you could push it forwards a lot. Think of totally updating this aboriginal idea to work with our new understanding of geography and the new materials we have today. Tapes and plastics stretched into maps like nets, sticky embossed labels, typed and handwritten text and found objects. You could make a really interesting and dense composition but execute in a way that it still registers as a map and as a story of your city and life.
Slow day at work... Glad to see somebody is still making artwork.
Ah, you are so artistic.
You should send me some art for my walls. They have these funking markings on them like pencil scribbles and dirt. Eck.
~ Alison
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