A joint to start the ideas off :pivot

The original idea of Underwear was from the beginning to have a joint.  That is the pivot point at the bottom for the work to be effected  by the weather.  I had the idea for this work to be moved by the wind and to have the feeling that it was unstable.  This then became a worry due to the mechanical engineering required and what materials would be used.  I first thought of having a spring, then spring like resistance to and from the armature that would be in the ground, and lastly agreed with my mate Lloyd about using a torsion bar inside the existing steel armature.  This has been a satisfactory outcome as the work is swaying back and forth and of course moves with an airfoil wing reaching into the air nearly 5 meters off the ground. 

Scale is everything. The human scale is everything. and as I look for the next work to begin I can say success is determined by intent and form colliding.  The counterbalance is not only off center away from forward but also off center away side to side, this has the effect of the work pointing toward the ground.  The intent of the wing striking the ground and tip holding up the work was intended to position the sub in an altered state and create new meaning by hanging the fuselage up above the viewers head to underscore Underwear- Underwhere.  Anyone who knows me knows my indifference to politics and word play.  I also have a simple life.  ha  Well maybe neither of those is true, I do go on.

"Underwear" 2015 Recycled shipping pine/hardwood pallets

Underwear started with a joint

sleeping dogs have crusty eyes.....

Well how long has it been,,,,,,years oh well lot has happened so where do i start?


start with today,,, new prime minister? ahhhhh too bad tony, australia just didn't approve of your amature hour,,,, what did not make it to the specified time to receive your pention? How does that feel? maybe close to all the lives you wrecked with all the crap you caused in your austerity,,,




Lighfboat 2014-15
Sculpture on the Edge joint winner First Prize
Bay Islands Exhibition First Prize



Wings in Flight Crate

Revisiting the time in North Carolina and the show at the Art Museum where I hung two birds above the orchestra that opened the event. It was a Juried show and what a thrill to be again in the spotlight. Looking forward to show in Australia maybe soon at the University Sunshine Coast.

Saw Harry Manx at the Woomby pub and talked to him afterwards about the video/slides to his song "Something of your Grace" and told him how I was inspired by his work. Really good to see him smile about teaching kids about failure and how it is so important to talk about these kinds of issues.

The crate was necessary because there seemed a hurricane every season that would land on the doorstep in Carolina.

Working on a new bird at the Mens' Shed Nambour and learning Auto Cad for teaching.

Hollow body and Ibis or again an egret to regret!  would be good to think about the Egyptians homage to the Ibis and contrast that against the Ibis over the Landfills that are dirty and thought of as a disgusting bird, wow, how strange because it is mirroring our disgusting wasteful ways....scavenger of refuse....how long before that's us ? 
The whole Human Race...Racing off to the precipice of failure....broken and despot.

Thanks Harry for the smiles.

Thinking about the positive nature of art.

 Art is risk 

Artists are Free thinking people

As I upload this photo tonight I am not in agreement with the new laws of google and the privacy policy that i just had to agree to in order to continue using this format and media outlet. I am not in compliance and therefore regard their policy as null and void and do not intend to follow their new privacy commitments they think they have the authority to enforce.  The way of the piano is strike the keys as freely as you wish, this is the people's song. It is about Freedom not Fascism.....corporations are going to have to abide by the peoples rules not make them as they wish to force the people into submission.  I am a free artist not one who is subject to authority by Corporation.

The obi obi piano about to undergo a transformation to something strangely wonderous and unusual.

Coltrane's Jive

 “Coltrane’s Jive” 

Kinetic Floor Sculpture 2012 Timber, steel, coal, rope, chain. 

200 x 140 x 200cm –work in progress 

Artist’s Statement: "Coltrane’s Jive" signifies power and violence, a single-minded machine, crude and unvarnished, offered up as the saviour of Australia’s failing economy. The work suspends thought on a J-curve trajectory: Australia the prisoner of a runaway privatised coal industry propped up by a ‘railroading government’. Locked within the rails of economic determinism, it is drawn toward the inevitable conclusion of exhaustion and impoverishment, leaving us empty handed for future generations. Coltrane’s Jive is an in-your-face predicament/dilemma: a collusion of technology and economics resulting in profits before sustainable energy solutions. The structural violence of no choice― the one way agenda― delivers injustice for all social classes. There is no happy-go-lucky take home message, just a stark reality ― one we must all come to face. As an environmental activist and artist my work is self-consciously orientated towards commentary upon the tragic and wholly preventable social and ecological crisis into which we are heading.

Installation "1,2,3." 1994  Marshal Arts Gallery , Memphis, TN

Interestingly this is a work that I did utilising the rubber from a tire shredding company next door to the gallery in Memphis. The coal and shredded tire used as a rich source of black is interesting as it is energy resource and an energy rich material. The numeral progression is an observation that this is the beginning of all things counted, even and odd and the rule of addition and subtraction, these are the numbers one needs..exception to zero!...from the first even number..
Similar too are the uses of rust as colour as with Coltrane's Jive. It is fun to extend the drawing surface on the floor as the tire shreds are easily laid down. Wondering about coal as the drawing medium.?

Memphis Sculptor

Greely Myatt my hero

Karl the Joker

This is the feather for my mate karl who always used to make fun of me in high school and teased me saying nothing blows free-er than the Windz...used to really piss me off, but then i never really let him see that....well maybe he did see that it made me mad..prick. that's what a good mate does, here ya go Karl this one is for you...a big laughing joker for you......

Ape over France

Stayed in a tent in France and painted portraits and this one was a first step to understanding how to look at the page as full and complete not just a photo of a face.

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