Category Archives: Fracture

Rebirth of Venus 2018 by Julia Featherstone

Posted on 2018-05-02 | Leave a comment
Rebirth of VenusJulia Featherstone, Rebirth of Venus, 2018, Photo collage on canvas
She’s the AI goddess who can see all the way to infinity
From my song: Atomic Goddess  (Julia Featherstone / Peter Head).
Rebirth of Venus (2018)transmutes Botticelli’s mythical painting of Venus (1486) into the Age of Cyborgs – a goddess emerges from the sea after her own birth as a fully-grown woman. In this photo collage, the Goddess of Fertility transcends herself to mirror the Virgin Mary’s immaculate conception with two babies in the womb, exclaiming: ‘I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess!’

 

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Posted in Absurd, Fracture, Surreal, The Venus Code, Venus Codex

Stuck in the Mud

Posted on 2013-06-29 | Leave a comment

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A ceramic work that is part of a series about getting bogged and stuck in the Simpson Desert for 11 days,  3-13 September 2010. Alasdair Macfarlane drove over 12 kilos of Keane’s Stoneware33 clay wrapped in gladwrap.

IMG_3144I let the clay  dry for 2 weeks, then bisque fired, circa 1,000 degreesC. Painted  3x  glazes – Satin Black, Copper Red and Chun. Finally, Petra Svoboda, COFA ceramics, reduction fired the work in a gas kiln for 10 hours, circa 1280 degreesC. Big thanks  to COFA ceramic lecturers, Jacqueline Clayton and Julie Bartholomew, for advice and help on how to realise the work.

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Posted in Abandon, Absurd, Ceramic, Fracture, Landscape, mapism, Place, Shadows, Surreal

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Optika: Red-Green-1

Posted on 2011-09-20 | Leave a comment

This image is part of my Optika Series of experiments with colour. This work involves the film lighting  filters red and green.

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Posted in Absurd, cubism, Fracture, mapism, Shadows, Video Stills

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Yayoi Kusama Tate Liverpool

Posted on 2010-01-16 | Leave a comment

Amazing work! A cube mirrored inside and outside with 3 circles cut into each side… reflecting the outside world…..  looking through one of the holes, into an infinity of dots

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Posted in cubism, Firenze, Fracture

Mirrored Ceiling in Hong Kong

Posted on 2009-12-08 | Leave a comment

My concept plan for the installation  Beneath Horizons includes a mirrored ceiling. In this photo, I am standing at the bottom right of the frame, looking up at myself.

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Posted in cubism, Fracture