I can almost hear the sounds

Many thank you's to everybody who submitted images for this blog or UYW. Whilst I try to have a look at all of the submissions (and get back to you), sometimes I simply run out of time and hope that I will get to them later. These rich and intensely colored images are from Marko Tardito from France. I can almost hear the sounds of the kids, smell the seawater and engulf myself on a little adventure.

Love of poppies

Last November I had the pleasure to travel to Tasmania to take some images of drought resistant grass fields. It was not long before I discovered these fields of white and I simply had to find a way to get to that property. I adore poppies and have never seen white ones before, so you can imagine my delight, standing amongst these gorgeous flowers - I felt like Alice in wonderland.

Friday on my mind

I love fridays, and saturdays, wednesday, well actually all days, but I am happy for it to be friday today. I am off to a meeting, then the market, a dance dress rehearsal and then I have a date with my partner. Perfect ending to a busy week. Have a great weekend.

Every time I think I do not have enough time for UYW and my blog, I get inspired all over again by all the artists out there, constantly producing amazing images. These images are from Yann Orhan and I simply adore their softness which lead me into a story through the wilderness.

Delighted

Last friday I was absolutely delighted to receive an invitation to join Culturehall. From their website: "Culturehall is a curated online resource for contemporary art where selected artists can share their work with curators, gallerists, collectors and other artists. We provide free artist portfolios with an easy to use set of web-based tools to make presenting art online simple and efficient. Our community of artists consists primarily of MFA graduates, arts professionals and teaching artists. Membership is available by invitation."

I was so inspired that I started a new project "After the rain". While these images are just a tiny tiny beginning, the ideas are gathering momentum and so is the rain for once in Australia. Now all I need is some spare time and more rain. What I love about a new project is that it keeps me inspired and my eyes open. While these are only a test run to explore the translation of the initial idea, I enjoy how the idea becomes broader and more layered with time. All projects start with that very first image and then it is up to us to follow through, discover and experiment (or sometimes ditch the idea) which seemed so graceful when we first imagined it.

UYW Issue 5

Tuesdays which feel like mondays and months slipping by in no time. Once again, I can not believe another month has passed, but below is the new issue of UYW. At the heart of this journal you’ll find five artists who use photography as an art that transforms their world into stills, touching upon telling stories that strive for new visions. Often I imagine them to work in complete silence, their eyes trained intensely on refinement. These images are a little love affair which seduce and hypnotise - they are a source of inspiration, perfectly balanced and reduced to their most basic essence.

Darren Rigo > displacement
Fabio Severo > portraits
Justin Walker > fathers mine
Rodolfo Vanmarcke > modern solitudes
Steven Beckly > little wolf

You can download UYW (17mb) here, or view the spreads here

Rainbow

Today I would like to share the outstanding work by Xiong Wenyun found through Galleria dell'Arco. Once again, I could not locate the photographers website, but was smitten with these images.
Through further research I found more information on the design boom website: "the 'rainbow' project is organized as an articulated ensemble of outdoor performances, environmental installations, and production of photographs. 'marking' several lorries with gigantic cloths painted in the seven colours of the rainbow, the artist leads a long and colorful caravan along the desolate and impassable route that connects bejing with the tibetan plateau, passing through town and cities inhabited by and peoples for whom art and color remain alien concepts.
thus, the artist has created metaphorically a living rainbow with the dual intent of sharing and, at the same time, investigating the revelatory and magical power of colour. the idea of the artistic experience as a moment of sharing together with the use of codes of land art conceived of as a collective performance constitute the historico-critical coordinates against which we must read a work which presents itself as a bridge (the very structure of the rainbow).
in presenting itself thusly, the work of art seeks to act as a bridge between the universalistic aspirations of an ‘art of the people and amongst the people’, and a profound and lyrical reassessment of the value of colour and the rainbow in chinese culture, and, in particular, in the buddhist interpretation of tibetan tradition (for the tibetan monks, the rainbow symbolises the ladder that unites the earthly sphere with the celestial)."
Yesterday I also noticed that Xiong Wenyun is represented by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.

Beyond words

Yesterday I fell in love with Adou's images. I came across his images via Three Shadows Photography Art Centre. In 2007 two leading photographers – RongRong, from China and inri, from Japan – founded the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing. The Centre is the first contemporary art space dedicated exclusively to photography and video art in China. Unfortunately I could not find Adou's website anywhere, but I was simple blown away by his timeless images.

Fleeting moments

I had one of those moments - ohh I wish I would have thought of that when I saw these gorgeous images by Sara Applegren. I have admired them ever since. Via culturehall.

Reflections

These images are from my favorite spot in NT. I was rather excited when I got my rolls of film back last year, but have never had the time to organise them.