Day 003

So I spent today frequenting the Art Gallery of WA and PICA today for Uni. Got overwhelmed by the nerdiness of PICA's Love of Diagrams exhibition, it seems yesterday's project was a bit of creepy foreshadowing!
Natasha Dusenjko, Unknown Architect, 2010 PICA

There is a plethora of Indigenous art on show at the moment at AGWA - it's Indigenous Art Awards time! And there was a piece in there which did a much more complex version of my project today - hidden dot messages like the colour-blind tests. The artist had used amazing colours and hidden words in there with an actual profound message. Mine is not profound at all.

JILL

Jill from TODAY I SAW has finished up her year-long project. I was prepared to feel a little sad after I saw her last post, but it was so odd, that I just laughed... how appropriate that she finished on a high note!
Today the last postcard she sent me arrived in the letterbox:
And I sent off my contribution to her swap to end the project to Cindy Owings in the USA. On Wednesday after my interview to get into Art went ridiculously well, I went to lunch with my friend Fish in at the pancake place in the city. I had the apricot and brandy pancake stack.
Afterwards we went to see the Patricia Piccinini exhibit at the Art Gallery of WA. It was mind-bending!

Monday 1/3

LABOUR DAY!!

I am seriously beginning to realise the super potential that public holidays have now that I am actually working... today as a family we used mum's birthday (or christmas... it all blends together at that end of the year with so many celebrations all together) gift of tickets to see "McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907-1917" at the State Art Gallery.

It was really great! I love the serenity of art galleries, especially the special exhibits where randoms don't just waltz in, rather there are (hopefully) fewer people and an overall more interested crowd. Also people are on the whole, more polite regarding picture-viewing etiquette.

My favourite painting was one of his son in costume: Louis McCubbin (as a boy in fancy dress) c.1908 I loved how Francis had captured the eyes... they were the key to me and also I loved how you could tell the quality of the fabric, and the richness of the colours of the costume... it was beautiful! Check it out here.

I was a little disappointed though that they had no postcards of the exhibition in the shop I thought that would have been an epic addition to the post out, so I will have to construct my own.