Chats/Tarots

I started a new piece. Well, I actually started it over a week ago, but, forgot to update, so, yeah...
When it's done (which should be tonight), It'll be titled Chats/Tarots.
>>Does a piece of art only have a title when it's fully realised?

It's a copy of a chat line clipping from The Sun (a U.K.- based tabloid newspaper), scaled up 4X, and made from synthetic felt and black cotton thread.

Wadaya reckon?

Original source material: from The Sun - approximately 180x90mm

Working on 'Cheap Psychics'

121Tarot.com finished

Layout of completed sections - to be sewn to white felt sheet - approximately  720x360mm

The Life and Loves of Jet Tea

  My brother wrote a novel. It's a sort of semi fictional story of a guy called Jet Tea (who, for all intents and purposes, is real), and his quest for love.

  Or so I think. I haven't read it yet. (I will, I AM a good brother! I brought a copy that my girlfriend's going to bring over to Rotterdam with her next week) But maybe you should check it out all the same.

  It's titled The Life and Loves of Jet Tea, and it's around 6 pounds I think. It's also a struggling writers first publication, so, yeah...

  Here's a link to his blog (we all blog, don't we?). There are also some great short stories on there, like The Little Girl who Thought She was Sonic the Hedgehog. That one's a laugh riot.

  http://joeblogs87.blogspot.nl/2013/03/the-life-and-loves-of-jet-tea.html

Sun in Rotterdam

  Wondering when it was gonna happen. And it's finally here. The sun is out and everything looks great! Unfortunately it's still as windy as ever, so actually you still need to wear a massive coat and a hoodie (and you're still fucking freezing), but it's all so much more exciting. This was the view form my studio yesterday:

 Pretty nice eh? Might do something about the dirty window today...


  In other news, I've been doing a bit of life drawing, haven't I? These images are from the 2nd session, and before this, I hadn't done any for at least a year. It's only now that I'm actually drawing what's in front of me, rather than just guessing what's there. I guess that's why none of my drawings at the moment go past the line drawing stage - 'cos I take too much time mapping out the shape first. Oh well. Practice = perfect 'n' all that.. Every cloud... No use crying over spilt so and so...
Yeah..

WOO! xXx

Work in Progress

I finished the watercolour stills Maid Service a while back now. I'm currently working on a new collection, titled Teacher Gives Special Lesson. Once again, the images are derived from the free porn website Youporn. After the paintings are completed (This time ten, instead of four), There will be another script reading,  of the original movie. I'm thinking of doing a live reading also.

Here's a couple of the final paintings. I'll post the others when they're all finished. Hopefully that will be a couple of weeks...

2/10 - Mr. Hammer undresses Teacher (Danny G Gardner, 2013)

8/10 - Mr Hammer solo, close to orgasm (Danny G Gardner, 2013)

Pornography old lady style

I'm also doing this at the moment. The idea is to elevate something unquestionably 'Low culture' into something uquestionably 'High culture'. It's also a critique on the porn industry. This is just one of several stills from a porno movie I'm turning into watercolours.
Enjoy!

Man Fucks Maid on Her Back (Pt. 3)
Watercolour on paper

 

"Ego ibo saggitent oneri sursum vestri cunnus"

I'm working on this very ambitious piece of art. This is part of it.. I'll keep you posted

1.

Populum multum, sico me et sexum Dyabolum imroba mater mea me mittere probabiliter scire me quod, si plani boyfriend rem. Sumptum in meus nerui Maximus me habuit quasi parvulus sic ego seduxit eum et ostendit illi quid teenager indiget recognitionem, amoris et sexus. Iam mihi, tribus.

2.

Maximus est realiter subtilis. Non solum vitiatam, sed omni tempore, Ego diligo eam cum fricat mea tits et digitos mea pussy.

3.

Scit vir stetit mulier imperita puella justo. Sentio securus mecium in eum. Amanter dicit ad me “Filla Reginae, nutrientibus me paululum , suus ;mirabile sentire labia tua super me” cum id faciam eius gallus evadat petra durum, tunc et ipse diligenter prolabitur eam in meam naturale eius debent. Mirum toto corpore tremit voluptati!

4.

Saepe sentiet ipse tunc dicat “Filla Reginae si ego should adepto vos praegnans tunc puteus 'uroxem ducere” Credo eum quoque. Dico me tanto itinere futuit et fortis suus aliquondo futurum sit

5.

“Sed prius meum Principem volo vos ad perficiendum universitati vestrae introtium nito” Cum Maximus dicit quod, tunc vult ut perficiat contraceptionem. Interea ipse suus 'quoque constupraverunt mea anus. Tunc ille labitur eius gallus sursum meus asinum. Primum tempus adhuc nocebit sed quia tum ego adepto a terminabunturque omni fere tempus, cum hes intra penits me.

6.

“Angelum meum es deus. Ego diligere omnem orgasm eg. Possem te pedicabo horas fine!”

7.

Super quod super torsit eius gallus in meam cunnus et sursum meus anisum. Ipse arietes eius irrumbao intus me ad capulum. Ut Im 'superabit in trepidatione et clamatis in eum ad mittendas onere est in me subtrahit irrumabo et Brachyblasti eius cum in faciem meam. Ipse consiles deinde meis dicentes “Angelum, tunc vicis ego iacio oneri sursum vestri cunnis, spondeo!!!”

Sounds and Visuals

A little video of viewing Archway Tower...

Turner Contemporary pt.3

Wow.. Alot can happen in three years.. It seems like I'm a completely new person, the only thing remaining from when i launched back in 2011 was that i was studying art. I'm at a new adress, at university, in a new band (http://www.facebook.com/WinterFloweringPansies), and have a new bunch of friends - well, that would be expected wouldnt it?..

I'm writing to update you on exhibition #3 at the Turner Contemporary in Margate (however, chances are you can't go, cos it ends on the 7th of this month). The gallery was split in 2, with a Hamish Fulton exhibition (old works and new), and a possibly more fitting exhibition of the man himself, JMW Turner. Also on display was August Rodin's The Kiss, which is set to leave on 02/09/12.

I wasn't really into anything i saw when i visited last tuesday (although i did do about 6 laps of The Kiss). I started up the main stairs, and was greeted by a gigantic wall work of Fulton's, documenting one of several walks he'd been on. There was more like this one in the three rooms of the gallery he'd had. I wasnt really taken by these - i guess i found it hard to link the large plastic letters adhered to the wall with the sometimes week-long walks that the pieces were talking about. There were a dozen or so smaller works situated on one wall - some as old as the seventies, some more recent. These were far better in my opinion, than the large works. Some were just painted pieces of lollipop stick-sized wood nailed directly to the wall, some were made during his time as a student at Central Saint Martins. (Can't upload image for some reason.. Here it is http://peterfoolen.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/hamish-fulton-galleri-riis-stockholm.html)

Then there was Turner. Very fitting for This gallery as on it's site used to be a bed and breakfast turner would stay in frequently. Apparently the light of the sky from Thanet is unlike any other, as theres nothing in its way 'til the north pole.. Or something. So yeah, alot of the paintings in this exhibition would've been paintes only a few metres away from where they're displayed.. I'll be honest with you, i didny pay much attention to this bit - i went to a watercolour exhibition at Tate Britain not so long ago, so i was all Turner'd out! There were some beautifully simple paintings of horizon's, coastlines and night times though..

Next up is a big Tracey Emin exhibition, of new work. Which is also very fitting for margate, and that opens 26/05/12, so we'll see.. I'll keep you posted

Ciao xXx

ERR... Hello??

Wow.. forgot i had this! I think i'm gonna start using it again.
I'm not gonna report anything today tho.. that'd be CRAZYY!!

My Love Affair With A Fabric Sex Doll...

Yesterday morning i started my final piece. It was a toss up between a series of watercolour stills of porno movies and a 1:1 fabric replica of the sex doll made from discarded women's clothes. After asking my classmates which one they preferred (and considering what could be displayed in the central space at the exhibition, where under 18yr olds will be around), i went for the doll...

So this is it - the project (and the year) nearly over!!. I've still got a bit of sketchbook work to do, and i need to find an old T.V. stand, but i'm doing okay for time. I've already got the head, chest and one arm completed. and one leg and one arm is halfway done.

Sewing this doll together is strange. I'm being very careful, like after i finish it will be alive...

Update:

So we're nearly at the end of the project, and all is going well...
I'm finishing up my initial ideas, they're really varied, it's great. One idea i had was to create watercolour paintings of stills from porno movies. I really like this idea, it's number 1, closely followed by a sex doll made out of reclaimed fabric, scale 1:1.
 I created this a couple of days ago, from thin neon-style bendable tubing bought on Ebay. It was developed from a rough drawing of the love doll half deflated with its legs in the air. The process was inspired by the way Tracey Emin uses neon to draw with.

Here's a really bad video, from my mobile fone -  it should be rotated once clockwise - i cant work out how to do it :S...

The SCI-FI genre - dominated by men!

Turner Contemporary

  Just over one month old, the Turner Contemporary is the newest gallery in the UK. Last weekend i went there, to look at Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens, the first show.
  The artists displayed all had one thing in common: the influences in their work could all be drawn back to Turner. The art as a whole, and the gallery, was brilliant, but three artists stood out for me, Daniel Buren, with Borrowing and Multiplying the Landscape, Work in Situ, Mirrors, Self-adhesive vinyl, Yellow filter, 2011

 This work made great use of what the area already had to offer - a fantastic clean new gallery, and of course a beautiful coastline.

 Next up was what i can only describe as the highlight of my year! Limit of Everything, 2011 by Conrad Shawcross. Constructed from metal, oak, lights and powered by a mechanical system, the work looks at science, geometry and music. This is a kinetic sculpture of a chord in music. I sat in the room for at least 45 minutes! Heres a video i took of it:

Lastly, we have Ellen Harvey's Arcadia, Mixed media, 2011. This piece looked very intimately at Brighton, where the new gallery is located. As well as a projection of the sea including sound, and 6ft letters spelling ARCADIA, a room was built within the room. This is the part i'm going to talk about. The room was not lit from above, or with spotlights, or in any other conventional way. Inside there were lots of (i didnt get the exact number - at least 20) clear persex sheets, backed with black, and etched into them were views of margate, put together to make a 360degree experience. It was quite breathtaking:

I learnt that, although you have a starting point, (and in this case six artists had the same starting points), the outcome can shoot off in an unexpected direction.

As well as attending a perspex engraving workshop, I bought the book - a bit pricey at £20 but i figure it'll be a kind of souvenir. I'm definitely going back to this gallery!

RASHBLOG 26/05: My legs are now painfully prickly, as is EVERYTHING downstairs. There are small red dots on my underarms now - not as many as the ones surrounding my privates.

METALWORK UPDATE!!:   IT FELL THROUGH!! I sent the artist a text message, being really nice,  but i didn't get a reply. I've adapted a screen print from the same idea, and during the holidays i'll be creating the 2 sculptures anyway, using glue and solder for the metal one.

RazorBurn Blues...(and reds,and tiny black lines)

 On Sunday I decided to go ahead with an idea I’d been weighing up for a few days. In order to reverse the roles of 'Macho hairy men' and 'Pretty hairless women’, and the abuse that comes with being the opposite, I shaved off all my body hair. This piece of performance art is accompanied by a spice jar containing the hair once attached to my body and a set of photographs of my hairless body.
 Part of the art is the reaction it evokes. My female feminist friends tell me that the response to them not shaving their body hair tends to be something along the lines of 'EWWWW THATS FUCKING DISGUSTING!!' As WE ALL know, body hair isn’t an unhygienic thing - it minimizes sweat and rash.
This successful piece of art is titled Hairiness is next to Furriness - an adapted quote from The Female Eunuch.


Hairiness if Furiness, Glass, Plastic, Human Hair



RASHBLOG day 1 (Sunday 22/05): Removing my hair with a disposable razor was unbelievably painful. Once finished, I noticed my increased perspiration, so I applied roll on deodorant - woops. It stung like hell!! Although the shave was close, it wasn’t close enough - I’m covered in spiky hairs (its especially painful downstairs...). I cut myself 13 times.
RASHBLOG day 2: When my legs experience too much friction the cuts open again.
RASHBLOG day 3: I'm noticing tiny red spots around the newly grown stubble around my pubis and the tops of my thighs. Some of them are filled with pus - I guess they're infected...
RASHBLOG day 4 (today - Wednesday 25/05): Moving today is painful-really painful. The hair is downstairs is a couple of millimetres long now. I've tried several creams and ointments, nothing helps. I anticipate at least a week of this pain...

Bell Hooks

I've found this - a quote by male feminist/anti-racist Bell Hooks...


"After hundreds of years of anti-racist struggle, more than ever before non-white people are currently calling attention to the primary role white people must play in anti-racist struggle. The same is true of the struggle to eradicate sexism—men have a primary role to play…in particular, men have a tremendous contribution to make…in the area of exposing, confronting, opposing, and transforming the sexism of their male peers."

Weld-Done!

So i wrote in my SOI that i'm going to try out 'steriotypical masculine and feminine practises' - sewing and welding. When i submitted my SOI i thought 'woops, might've shot myself in the foot - i dont have any access to this...'
I was having lunch with a few artists in Uxbridge and it turns out one of them knows an artist who has a studio in Finchley. He works with metal - BINGO!! I'm gonna fone him soon and arrange a meet. I'll let you know

In other news i'm on my way to the PayneShurvell gallery off Curtain Road to watch, then interview a pair of feminist performance artists, The Girls.

BTW

My background is a piece of art titled Untitled (The Days Of this Society Is Numbered) by Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2008

Super Misogyny Clouds

Went to barbican yesterday, to visit the Laurie Anderson, Gordon matta-Clark and Trisha Brown exhibition. It was full of very inspirational performance art.
While i was there though, i ventured into The Curve, an OxBow shaped room that stretches about 100metres and exhibits art free to the public. Beat The Champ by Cory Arcangel was there - a really cool display of bowling videogames all rigged at the controllers to throw gutterballs every time.
 I started researching Arcangel today, and started with a video of the work that made him "first come to prominance", Super Mario Clouds (2002-present). At the top of the comment list, under 'most liked' comments on Youtube, someone writes "Any work made by men can be considered as art". What the hell does this even mean?...

Besides, it's clever, but ultimately very boring....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkkJaqBbXV8

Do I need to give you evidence, really??!

This is just a quick reminder to all my friends who think women and men are equal nowedays. This made me nearly vomit.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007269,00.html

Lipstick and Blood

It's not much, but i've found a piece of feminist art created by a man. Cuban artist José Gómez Fresquet painted Lipstick and Blood around 1970. He is not what i'm looking for, a male artist whose sole ethos is feminism, but its a point in the right direction.

"Originally created as an antiwar statement in solidarity with Vietnamese women, the piece makes a connection between the objectification of women and the violence to which they are subjected. Issues of race and class also come into play as Fresquet juxtaposes the two women as worlds apart through their different features and shades of skin"


this was found on a website that i'll no doubt be using again, http://www.thedailyfemme.com/femme/tag/male-feminist-art/


Ciao!!