Fiona Hall: Fiona Hall's 1990 exhibit "Words" is a brooding collection of ten ambient Polaroid photographs with dimensions of 53 x 68 cm, all related in the way they have been presented. When thrust upon viewing, intense moods are triggered and sensory responses to the candid portrayal of disfigured human beings give a general sensation of human discomfort as if a transition or metamorphosis is taking place. This is accentuated by the way the photographs have been taken, in particular the use of murky, earthy tonal variations and the rock-like textures that have been created. The number of human figures may have a statement about the impact a transition may have on us as human beings and that perhaps transition is a necessity for human beings to live and adapt.

Tracey Moffat: Tracey Moffat's 1991 exhibit "Pet Thang" is an interesting collection of six photographs with dimensions of 110 x 71 cm. Each piece in the collection is similar, making the collection cohesive. Motifs featured in "Pet Thang" include the interaction of what appears to be a sheep and a woman (although they are featured in seperately in two photos). Further emphasis is placed on these figures due to the contrast in darkness between the foreground and the background in each of the photographs. Although the figures are fairly dark in tone and slightly indistinguishable at first sight, they can be differentiated on closer inspection due to the textural contasts between the different characteristics that humans and sheep contain. Moffat appears to have given the images a grainy layer of coating that has been achieved by the blurring of photographs and she may have also suggested movement to take place during the capturing of the photographs.

Fiona Hall - Image 6 of "Words" exhibit

Noun: Process

Verb: Purge

Adjective: Dense

Tracey Moffat - Image 6 of "Pet Thang" exhibit

Noun: Relative

Verb: Rummage

Adjective: Distended

Rosalie Gascoigne - Schweppes boxes

Noun: Cohesion

Verb: Compromise

Adjective: Jagged

Beauty within the dissonance

Here's a picture of me at a looking point in Amman, Jordan. What I find amazing about this picture is the juxtaposition of the variations in hue of the sky and the concrete and earthy colours of the urban sprawl. I think though it's one of those things where you just have to be there to experience it. It's a nice photo, but it really doesn't do justice to the experience.

The Falling Water

"Fallingwater" - Frank Lloyd Wright. It was built in 1939 and is located in Bear Run, Pennsylvania.

For me it would be the ideal home to live in. Just an arm's length away from nature if not closer and the luminosity of it's surroundings would assure constant inspiration to experience life I think.

Creative work

I personally think that my creative work at home in my spare time is better than that done at high school, therefore I thought I'd just upload what creative piece in general I really liked.

This one's called "Twilight Zone" because it is a twilight zone between calamity and spiritual transcendence, whichever you feel is being portrayed is up to you and depending on which you interpret, you may find out something about yourself that you previously forgot or never knew. I used lead pencils only and this was designed as an album booklet for a compilation CD I made for a friend as a gift. I then proceeded to scan the image and edit the hue of it slightly.