Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
---- Adelaide is home. Work is often in Canberra. Relaxation is in Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer & philosopher who has lost his way in life. I used to be a policy wonk. Now, as a knowledge worker I have trouble learning to live in a complex digital world. Personal expression is the way I critically cope in a technological mode of being.
Interesting how we might read a different meaning into the imagery of the cigarette advertising...in today's context, it adds to the sense of threat, whereas it was quite a usual corner-shop sight back then.
I have always read Blackmans works as depicting vulnerability and impending danger, like de Chirico's paintings, mystery and melancholy and so forth.
wonderful images, all of his works.
The advertising on yesterday's corner shop, when interpreted from, today signifies the poisoned world of Big Tobacco.We are vulnerable and threated by cancer.
Interesting how we might read a different meaning into the imagery of the cigarette advertising...in today's context, it adds to the sense of threat, whereas it was quite a usual corner-shop sight back then.
I have always read Blackmans works as depicting vulnerability and impending danger, like de Chirico's paintings, mystery and melancholy and so forth.
wonderful images, all of his works.