A gift, a souvenir, or a tool. Something discarded and found again. An idol. Each object tells a story, and maybe even a story about Who We Are. Some objects, like figurines are designed to represent something else. Some have a separate and unrelated purpose too - a mug with a face or a handbag shaped like a pug driving a rickshaw. These objects are simultaneously themself, and a reproduction of an ‘other’.
Here I am investigating the ‘line’ between real and unreal, tangible and intangible. The uncanny. Is it a baby? A gingerbread man? A baby figurine? Is it just paint? The further we investigate, the more we realise that we rarely see life as it is, and instead we layer bias on top of the Now.
For society to function, to achieve goals, and to form relationships, we segment, label, define, and assign value to the universe. Our upbringing, cultural influences, current context, and anxieties about the future all become filters, influencing our perception of Now. In psychology and cognitive science these mental chunks of cosmos could be called “Schemata”. These “Schemata” become like a language through which we perceive events, objects, creatures, and people - Life.
We can look at a painting as a representation of an object, person, or idea, and if we're lucky, for a moment we can simply look.
Prana: Sold
A: $60
Speak No: Sold
The Gift Signed Pats: $60
Soup Opera (Signed Olga Goldsmith): $450
The Living Room: $280
Scraps: Not Currently For Sale
Who's Gonna Make the Gravy?: $810
Ticket to Rickshaw: Sold
The Edge of the Lonely Wood: $390
Disco Pear: $85
Flapjacks in a Bunnings Pot: Sold
Tiny Dancer: $110
The Elephants in the Window: $110
Wabi-Sabi: $1535
Blue Rondo a la FishL: $555
Bone Dry: Not Currently for Sale
The Untouchable Part: $1120
Better Than a Corpse: Not Currently For Sale
222: $185
Funny Face Mug: $85
