excuses

Why I have not posted for a long time
excuse 1 - moved house
excuse 2 - been in Melbourne
excuse 3 - been writing an essay from the lectures I attended in Melbourne
excuse 4 - moved house again
excuse 5 - pregnant and nesting (only 3 weeks till due date now)
excuse 6 - new owners of two bengal kittens known now as the little devils
excuse 7 - internet only just up in new house
excuse 8 - i am good at doing things that I am not meant to be doing

Above however is the latest husband and wife image. An image I started working on some time ago and have just redone. I would love to know what you think, if you still pop in here that is as I haven't been too regular at posting have I!

Alien

I'm off to Melbourne this weekend for two weeks of lectures for my MFA. We are also and at the same time, moving house, again. I've attached some completely unrelated words and an image. The image I took, and will likely never be used for anything, but I do like it anyway. The words, are by my all time favorite band - Lamb- , both for their music and their lyrics. These words are, I am assuming, about being pregnant. They are perfect.

"alien"

this was a body
now it's a home
for you my little alien
i feel you moving
it's oh so strange
do you like the music?

and i'm a happy home
what's it like in there?
yeah i'm a happy home
i hope it's cosy in there

if home's where the heart is
that's where you are
my heart is right there
so long i've waited
to be quite so occupied
mysterious being by you

self

Anyone would think I am self obsessed. I see that many of the photos on this blog are now of me. For some reason I have some kind of distance from them though, I'm not sure why. I just don't feel as though they are purely just about me and me alone. There is something bigger that I am trying to get to. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly that is though. Here are two more images, a self portrait and an indirect self portrait.

OJ

Well, all my promises last time of posting the image that I was taking up to Auckland has turned out to be lies.

Only because, I've left it there to get reprinted, as I felt the quality wasn't quite right. So you will get to see it, but not right now. Instead you can see this one -

This is my husband and I. I joked that it is what our baby is going to look like. Ha ha ha ... very scary! Let's hope not!

Self portraits

Time is flying, as usual. Here is a self portrait taken a few weeks ago, at about 19 weeks pregnant. It's quite a lot different than a lot of the other self portraits that I have been working on recently! I'm off to get one printed quite large now, it's a tad weird, just the way I like it. I'm going to be installing it for a group critique this weekend in Auckland as part of my MFA. It'll be very interesting to hear their interpretations of it. I'll be taking a photo of it while it is on the wall, and will post it here too.

While I'm writting, I'll put a little pip in for one of the latest blogs that is dealing with art photography in a NZ context - photography matters

images that almost work

Thanks for those of you who tried to help me on my last plee for inspiring artists. I agree with Microphen that work is much nicer in a book or real life rather than on a screen. I do find it interesting that I find it hard to find work that really inspires me when I get told that my work reminds some people of other photographers.

Anyway, here are three images that almost but didn't work. None the less the are still interesting.

more excuses

well here I find myself without internet again, as the mobile broadband we had was anything but fast, and rather expensive. So now to post I need to go to the library, not such a bad thing, as New Plymouth has a fantastic library. But it's still not quite as easy as posting from home.

As part of my MFA I have been looking at artists that produce work that may be inspiring to me. My tutors have given me a list, and though some of them were interesting none of them grabbed me and made me love their work. One of the ones that was rather interesting though is Catherine Opie

However if any of you bloggers have some good suggestions of artists whose work may inspire me, please do let me know! I am on the hunt!