BAULI

before the summer my mum gave me a bauli pandoro package to wear as a hat, and when i showed my new hat to allegra she said it would look good as a painting. so i thought i might collect some ideas for this, and during my journey through america i saw several artworks which inspired me and i thought i might be able to use. so after having done several pages in my art book about the galleries and museums, i made a brainstorm of characteristics to go with the hat. most of them have to do with my theme as well (SYMBIOSIS). i took some photos of me and patrick (chicken stabber) with the hat on, and found i do look better with it on, but im not sure i want to include myself in the painting...i would like a person though, but im not sure who or how? i thought i might do a big painting of a person wearing bauli in oil paints and soft/pastel coloura (light yellow, lilac etc) as the background with different objects or things which i saw in america in the painting as well?









NOTE: the blue lipstick, even on the male

AMERICA

just came back from america&canada a couple of days ago, it was AMAZING. we travelled from toronto to niagra to finger lakes to new york to cape cod to boston to vermont to montreal and back to toronto! so many places! visited several art galleries/museums including : metropolitan NY, guggenheim NY, MoMA NY (but it was closed the day we went so just went into the museum shop!), boston museum of fine arts, montreal museum of contemporary art, etc. in the museums as well as in the urban lifestyles and nature through which i drove i gained many ideas and a lot inspiration, even things that im not usually interested in! here are some random photos from my trip and i will post some more ideas for my projects afterwards.

THEME/WORD for next year?!?!

i'm stuck i'm stuck i'm stuck very stuuucckk. i really dont know what to do for next year and the summer because i'm scared that if i make a choice now i wont like it by next year..so it should be a theme or word which can be interpreted in several different ways. i am quite interested in diverse cultures and stuff but maybe that's just because im currently doing something along those lines...
i have looked at my previous projects and brainstormed about them to see if there are any links or themes i can derive from them but im really not too sure what to do!!

more

having focused on women in culture/religion/offerings/society etc for a part of my project, for the NON-european research i started looking at feminine archetypes in relation to ancient history and art and culture, such as venus and eros in australian cultures and stuff, and i thought it was quite interesting. i love the way you learn so many new random things when researching art, i just found out that according to the australian gunwinngu aborignials,that the 'All Mother' Eros was the first very first woman on earth who gave birth two an entire race. apparently she watered the aboriginals by urinating on them for growth, and taught them how to dig for food and live life! very intriguing!

CURRENT PROJECT

i'm sorry i haven't been doing any blog postings recently i just completely abandoned the poor blog and will therefore make up for it now as i was reminded in class that my blog was feeling EXTREMELY LONELY. well my current work is probably an extention of the painting which i did as my first paris project (painting of etruscan sculpture below).. i was inspired by the offering/society/culture/religion of the greek woman laying something on an offering table and therefore decided to focus on burkas or something of the sort. since i have a photograph of my sister in venice wearing a scarf on her head (with beautiful lighting which is reflected in her eyes) i have decided to paint it in a similar style as the one of the etruscan sculpture, using a similar colour scheme of light colours. however, im going to use oil paints. i'm not entirely sure yet how it will turn out. anyway blablabla: here are some photos of
1. the old paris painting
2. my sister & ideas in my book (which are not of very good quality but i hope you get the idea...)

book pages

pages which i did in my book, one double introductory page on venice, and another one experimenting with the theme of movement and motion of pigeons. i have also collected feathers in piazza san marco and stuck them down.

study of windows in venice and buraco

jaa so here are some windows which i photographed in venice and burano (VERY bright and funky colours there!)