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. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
Guy Maestri's Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu would also be far more powerful in life size, but then he would have to include the figure, or at least the torso. Composition would then become an issue, instead of being evaded in the close-up head format; but it would also make it a more expressive work.
Maybe. This is a person who lives in visual darkness as he performs his music on stage. So the blackness and harsh light are appropriate. It is a powerful picture as it is.
Anyhow I just like the guy's music:
| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 7:40 AM | Permalink
A very different selection from last years lot.
The Guy Maestri is the only one I would hang in my home so I say that is the stand out winner.
Send the rest to the local school fete.
and so do I. It's very haunting