Duality of Light

So my first assignment at uni for professional practice is to write an easy 700 word exhibition review. i chose to do mine in the form of a blog so here it is.

Duality of Light is the collective name of an exhibition by Lynette Wallworth which is being shown at the Samstag Museum of Art.
The exhibition contaions various works by Lynette, who has a strong background in photography and eventually evolved into moving images and these elements are the basis of Duality of Light.
When first walking into the large space, at the far end are 3 screens which is the work Damound Mountains. Lynette has used moving images that go at a really slow pace, the mountain stays still but the cloud cover on each screen alters the picture in a different way. Further on a woman in some sort of sheet is in the image and as the wind blows the sheet the image is once again altered by the conditions of the weather. I'm not sure exactly what the artist was trying to portray but what i got out of it was a message about sometimes things are out of our control but even so there is a beauty found in that. I also thought the images where quite sophisticated in a technical way.
The same can be said for Beautiful Sunset, which is a beautiful image of a bunch of trees. At first it appears to just be a single photo, but as you sit and watch you notice the colours and shadows change. The whole thing goes for 40 minutes and shows the changes and effects sunset has on the environment. The colours are striking and as you watch you are absorbed into her work.

The main work of the exhibition is Duality of Light. Where one person at a time enters a dark corridor. As you walk down the corridor an image of yourself is projected at the end. It's quite a strange thing to watch yourself walking towards yourself, i didn't know where to look, which showed up on the image. The whole thing is quite confronting, then you unexpectedly explode into an arragements of flying lines of white and grey.

Upstairs another of Lynettes' work is Hold Vessel 2 was one I really liked. You are asked to take a glass bowl into a dark room where projectors point down from the roof. You hold the bowl under the projector light and watch snippets of different moving images. Things like stars and galaxies, then it changes to microscope images of bugs and things wriggling around. There were also sea scapes, fishes and seals swimming around. The concept reminded me of the video tape in the movie "The Ring". I liked this work but it also made me feel uncomfortable. The combination of the dark room, the creepy images and the background music made for a confronting work.

The final work I viewed in the exhibition was titled Invisible by Night. This was by far the strangest and creepiest art I have ever seen. It's the kind of thing that is so far from anything you would normally see and it, for me, seemed psychologically damaging. Like a nightmare. It is a full length screen, which appears frosted over. Activated by touch, a lady appears behind the frost and wipes lines across the glass at her eye level revealing only her eyes which look not directly at you, but past you. The other hand rests on the glass at hip level. Her hands then wipe down the screen leaving behind the trace of finger tips, at which point she turns and walks away.
It was freaking weird and creepy but at the same time makes you wonder what is going on, why is she there? Where is she? What is she doing? etc.

All in all I found Duality of Light to be a pretty confronting exhibition, the point behind all the works isn't clear but I think that's part of the experience. It all adds to the feeling of out of control, uncomfortableness, and it really makes you think hard and take what YOU get out of it, and i think that's what good art should do. Experience and grow.


ps Amelia has contact lenses.

blogging

so, here i am again. i have abused and forgotton about my blog but i decided to start it up again. mostly for art stuff..like photos of my stuff and just talking about crap in general.
so ive started uni again for the year. it's all pretty exciting and i cant wait to get into it all again. it's just going to be expensive which is the only problem. so basically incase you don't know i am doing black and white photography, alternative drawing, and painting.
painting costs the most because oils paints are pretty expensive for quality and same with paper. you can get canvas' pretty cheap though. photography can get expensive beacuse i use cameras that take film costs build up, and photographic paper can be costly depending on size.
but it's all worth it i guess!
the other class i have which is theroy i thiught i was going to hate. but it's actually amazing and really helpful. it's called professional practice and is there to teach us and help us make decisions about our different career pathways. so many people in my course want to do different things.
i'm pretty sure once i've graduated i want to eventually open a studio gallery where i can work and exhibit. possibly slash hopefully in melbourne.

anyway.. umm i got a job..finally. i think many people didn't think they'd see the day but here it is! it'll be good to have money so i can buy all my art stuff and also go to melbourne more often..yay!

that is all for now..

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some wise words fomr the past

MMMbop- HANSON

You have so many relationships in this life
Only one or two will last
You're going through all this pain and strife
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast
And they're gone so fast
So hold on the ones who really care
In the end they'll be the only ones there
When you get old and start losing your hair
Can you tell me who will still care
Can you tell me who will still care
Mmm bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Mmm bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du
Plant a seed, plant a flower, plant a rose
You can plant any one of those
Keep planting to find out which one grows
It's a secret no one knows
It's a secret no one knows

(Repeat Chorus)

In an mmm bop they're gone.
In an mmm bop they're not there.
In an mmm bop they're gone.
In an mmm bop they're not there.
Until you lose your hair. But you don't care.

(Repeat Chorus)

Can you tell me? You say you can but you don't know.
Can you tell me which flower's going to grow?
Can you tell me if it's going to be a daisy or a rose?
Can you tell me which flower's going to grow?
Can you tell me? You say you can but you don't know.

first blog evuhhhhh

Well...here is my first blog on this thing. After much convincing from a good friend i decided to set this up. i am not expecting many readers, in return you should not except good grammer or spelling along with crazy long winded rants.

so...what to blog about first. this could potentially be a first impression type thing which could influence whether you, the reader, continues to view my blogs.. so it should probably contain wit, personal experiences and some level of depth.
well screw that.

i thought i would add this..umm..stuff that i wrote which i put on my myspace blog..hope you enjoy.

what is beauty? predominantly it is defined by the individual. what's beautiful to me may not be beautiful to you.
beauty-both in people and objects or nature- is more than just an outward appearance. it runs deep. a beautiful person doesnt necessarily have to be physically attractive. a beautiful plant doesnt necessarily have to have the biggest or most colourful petals.
something is beautiful when it takes your breath away, when your heart skips a beat. beauty is very much connected to emotion. emotion is feeling. the feeling you get when you see the person you love or hear that persons voice, this is beautiful and that person is beautiful to you no matter what they look like.
beauty is forever changing. models that are considered beautiful today were not considered beautiful 200 years ago. different cultures have different perceptions of what beauty is.
beauty inspires.
popular mainstream media mainly defines for the uninformed and easily influence, what beauty is. for many, beauty is perfection. to me perfection is not achievable. in other words, perfection cannot happen in this life- only in the end. thus perfection being the end. beauty doesnt have an end. beauty goes on forever, changing and taking various forms, but still remaining beauty.
thoughts, creativity, intellignce. this is beauty. the inability to think, feel or choose for oneself is not beautiful.
beauty is opposition. complete harmony or complete anarchy is not beauty, there must be controlled chaos in which people have the freedom to state their own ideas and opinions. without this, progression cant be made. complete harmony or anarchy is conformity, this is boring and ugly.
beauty is TRUTH, love, happiness that comes from self achievement.
beauty radiates and is infectious.
beauty must come from within and from self exploration. to find out where one fits in the world, in society, to discover the wholeness of ones persona is beauty. this cannot be forced upon a person.
everything and everyone is different, thus beauty is different. it is individual, unique. to discover and accept ones own uniqueness, to capture and use, to exercise this uniqueness and share it with mankind; this is beauty.
creativity from within, new ideas and concepts, the ability to not be scared by the limitless potential within; this is beautiful.
beauty cannot be defined in a general matter for each and every person, animal, object or all or nature to abide by.
beauty is what the eye of the beholder sees.
beauty is beauty

beauty is beautiful

mmmm so i wrote that sometime last year while sitting trying to think of somethign to do for art. now i am doing visual arts at uniSA and my whole perception on what art is, should be, and can be, has completely changed. my mind has been opened to whole new possibilities of creativness. i wish i could spend all my time just being creative and experimenting with stuff but alas life goes on. but i have found this new way of looking at the world. seeing art and beauty in some of the most mundane happenings and objects. at risk of sounding corny, the world is one big canvas and art is happening all around us.

life can suck..take it from me, i know. but life can also be amazing..beautiful..and so fantastic..i think its just theway we choose to look at things. just like when two people lok at the same piece of art they may see two completely different things, this is because they are viewing it through kind of like a veil of their own life experiences. i guess thats how we view life aswell. but we have a choice, we can see the crap..or the beauty.

rant over.

peace out