Well isn't it swell...

Last week I managed to make it to the Swell sculpture festival at the coast. http://www.swellsculpture.com.au/ one of my favourites was 'Beachcomber' by Rosie Harvest'

Bruce Nauman

Please pay attention please: Bruce Nauman's words : writings and interviews

By Bruce Nauman, Janet Kraynak

prettier dolls house.

family resemblance

MOCO


Nina Levy’s hyper-realist works touch the theme of family, as displayed by her recent exhibition at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn. Family Resemblance included Toss, a sculptural installation created for the space that included a five-foot baby head, modeled after the artist’s son, being tossed between two headless parents. Husband and Son is a lifelike sculpture that includes everything but the dad’s head, suggesting the importance of the child in the new dynamic. Some photographs were also part of the exhibition – and here it is important to note that Levy does not digitally manipulate her photos to achieve the desired effect, but works with plaster pieces she creates for the narrative.

Artist: Nina Levy
+ ninalevy.com

more house research

http://www.cacsa.org.au/program/2001/2001.html

this link has some good stuff on house artworks.

Paper houses.

aleks danko- day in day out

"in the early 1950s, there was a song called "little boxes" about people living in houses that all looked the same:

little boxes make of ticky-tacky,
little boxes, little boxes,
little boxes, all the same.

'day in, day out' is a phrase we use when we are bored or tired. in aleks danko's art work, every house is the same and each day is like any other. the sun is always shining. the artist used a cake tin in the shape of a house to make the "little boxes". he placed them in tight neat rows. it makes us feel that if we lived in such a place, we would have to march down the streets; we could never run or skip in a carefree way.
if you lived in a house that looked like every other house, how would you know which one was 'home'? "

From Flickr



Clothed in brick, and enlarged to life size, there's something wrong. The proportions echo the personal space, of creativity and secrets, given to the sculpture student; the galvanized-iron garage behind the family home at Edwardstown. In Danko's art carnivalesque transgressions inhabit the elegant sobriety of plain, readymade forms and materials. At Home is a shed that masquerades as a house.

childrens drawings (child abuse)

http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/physical_abuse.asp

from here http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/physical_abuse.asp

Figure 1.

Drawing by a 4-year-old physically-abused boy:
The large image is his father and he is the mouthless face in the upper left hand corner.

books on chld abuse

Books about child abuse- found at this blog http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=313

Alli Good - artist researched

Alli Good was conditioned to be modest and lady-like.
She paints drunk girls, lascivious nude women and a family who makes absinthe in the basement.

http://www.audienceasheville.com/Home/artist-of-family-secrets
"What strikes me about Good's work is how intensely personal it feels. She paints corpulent, sometimes lascivious nude women who can be grotesque or funny or both and is clearly exploring feminist body image issues. "
Her discomforting imagery may arise from her own childhood experience of not fitting in or from a scenario she creates from her imagination. In either case, she challenges taboos. Not that Good takes herself too seriously.

http://www.alligoodart.blogspot.com/

artwork researched - Vitrine Feature

FAMILY SECRETS
an installation by Vitrine Feature Artist - Emily Rumney
30 january - 20 April 2009

In this work Emily Rumney explores the idea of the ‘wholesome’ façade within the formalised set up of the family portrait. The viewer becomes a voyeur into an intimate, interior space. Rumney depicts sweet little family interactions, which, on closer inspection becomes disconcertingly out of kilter. Stoic and constrained, the subjects are boxed in and rendered in delicate sepia-toned intaglio prints; all-the-while politely hinting at the unsettling idea of what goes on behind the scenes of these colonial family images. Long-held family secrets once thought to be buried or eventually given up are exposed.

dolls house stop motion

art

Walizka Mojego Taty ( Daddy’s Suitcase ) © Matthew Kolakowski 2009, Mixed media, made with packaging from the Malinka delicatessen, Brixton

housing estates

Housing estates:

Luminato - Toronto Festival of Arts Creativity 2009 - Tony Oursler

Luminato - Toronto Festival of Arts Creativity 2009 - Tony Oursler

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how-

using youtube videos- editing and adding spacers, this makes it easier to create the sound files to be converted to mp3

Homes-

my space- (mess) hehe... I've decided to add numbers to the houses- maybe this will help keep them organised- and what jobs i need to get done.

Still needs doors in these spaces-



Has a door- needs a hinge.


Has a door- needs a hinge

How am i going to enclose this one?! ?!



All done - needs windows.



Did itself-



Needs trimming on edge- door too big. ( needs something to keep door closed)





Needs windows & painting.

Again done itself.



Needs one door...
done!

Has door- needs hinge.

Has door- needs windows and hinge.



Needs both door and hynges.

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not memories- experiences.

Interesting q and a on a forum :
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/933119

Memories tend to make us who we are: agree or disagree?
If that was true then someone with short-term memory loss wouldn't have a personality or sense of self. Apart from genetic influences I believe that what has happened to us throughout our lives does influence who we are. But in a subconscious way. You don't need to remember your entire life to make a decision, however the decision is a product of everything that has happened to you in your life as well as any predetermined personality traits that you have inherited.

facebook survey - friends memories

Danielle Kelly what do you remember about the first house you lived in???

Kristy Hunt-Thorn at 22:16 on 14 April

I remember my whole life... I lived there from day one until I was 20

Debbie Lambden at 22:17 on 14 April

i only remember the big mango tree out the back. I remember turning round and round and round underneath it till I used to fall over dizzy on my bum! I can re-create those memories with a coupla wines! lol

Danielle Kelly at 22:19 on 14 April

lol. kinda like paul the other week. :) hahaha

Alana Garret at 22:42 on 14 April

Not much-we moved every 18 months from when I was born. The earliest house i remember had a passion fruit vine on it, and i used to make megan eat unripe ones when we played house.

Philly J Kelegai at 22:47 on 14 April

yes!!! in rainy lae, PNG! the first thing i remember was trying to float in a large coconut palm in a drain just to the side of the veranda in my home when it rained! i must have been a heavy baby coz i sunk quick!!! but that is the earliest memory of my first home!!!

Shane Kitt at 01:07 on 15 April

was a bit of a hole but we werent there too long!

Kelly Embelton at 07:49 on 15 April

The first one I can remember (lived in over 19 houses) was on acreage at the back of Ipswich. Theres a photo of me sitting on a cow.

Jodi Buxton at 21:18 on 15 April

My first house was the one i was in until i was 15 at Holland Park with the long drive way (129 Sapphire Street)

Leon Hayden at 10:16 on 17 April

first house, little loco tracks the heat and the shower...'sbout it

Alyssa Clark at 18:29 on 18 April

A lot cause I lived there from when I was born till when I was 19. It wasn't much to look at but a good size and holds lots of memories, I miss it :(