Spatial concept "Waiting" Lucio Fontana 1899-1968, seen "as emblematic of his gestural aesthetic" Tate.org

Through the looking past the canvas beyond the exterior into an inner world, the penetration of the mind past the image frame, this is where my practice is being informed. My research work this semester is being informed by these personal sensory emotions and bodily thoughts. Lucio fontana is an artist that to me captures this gesture although i do find the work a bit like sabotaging the canvas. The painting on display at NGV that i have studied is much more sympathetic to the canvas and the cuts appear more like puncture marks that up close my eyes look past the canvas and imagine another world, may be just for a moment.

I have made this work myself just to see and feel what it is like to penetrate the surface, the actions were not what i expected, as i found it difficult to puncture the surface without tearing the black glossy card i used. I also found the actions more aggressive and not what i want to experience as an artist. I will not be pursuing this type of work. However Fontana is an artist i will continue to reference.

To day i have been sole searching looking for artist that align with my spontaneity and who people look up to as progressive artist of their era.

There is absolutely no doubt for me Eve Hesse is that shinning light. An inspiration of creativity with such an expansive practice on using materials that were way ahead of her time. Latex, fiberglass, wrapped plaster, wire covered plaster of Paris coming away from framed images on walls. These bulbs so sensual and wearable they just melt away. Experimentation a key factor, no holes barred, yes its ok to just od what you desire.

Rachel Whiteread: Castings in 1995 of water bottles look so much like a living breathing baby. You just wan to pick them up and talk yo them !

These experimental works were exhibited at the Tate Britain 2018 along with many of Whiteread’s other stand out cast sculptures. Truly a very imaginative artist that creates amazing life size works out of the every day. My work looks at things may be not like Rachel however it does take inspiration of working with ideas and found fragments of our world and turning them into a different form.

Do Ho Suh: (South Korea, b, 1962) 348 West 22nd Street. Connecting architecture to personal space.

Do Ho Suh, makes beautiful life size soft fabric installations of places he has a cultural personal history and memory with. I walked through this installation at LACMA in January this year. What i found resonating was the stark emptiness of his apartment yet it had so much delicate detail, right down to the embroiled of power controls. As i left the outside world of the gallery and imagined myself being in his apartment i felt a sense of emptiness and like being put back in time as this apartment reminded me of a building in the 1950’s or may be early. Looking at this and another image see #2 the beauty starts to disappear and i look at the surrounding gallery space which brings me back to my own art making containment.

Alexandra Engelfreit

Huge clay covered reminds me of bodies, the paint died canvas makes the work look so much like what a mortuary in some far third world country could be doing it its people. Or a coronavirus grave. The canvas lifted of the clay will create some new meaning hung in a gallery. Makes me want to go big using the body in my art making.

Martin Creed, Turner prize winner, a light hearted look at how we see the world

Martin Creed makes me look at myself anti- seriously he is like a Andy Wardhol you just don’t know if he is being ridiculously dead pan in the way he responds to interviews or is he taking the p— out of us all ! He does however for me put life in perspective and what i am making at the moment a series of paper mache pinky finger sculptures, doew is matter what reaction i get from the public or is it just good enough to be producing. So tonight i look at Martin and say thanks for giving me some respite in my endeavours of creation.

Franz West, Interactive sculptures, know for their absurdity, playfulness, humorous and provocative forms.

Franz West Austrian, 1947-2012. His sculptures papeir mache, plaster, aluminium and brightly coloured, are so engaging they have this lovely playful, interactive and full of ambiguity and absurdity. West early works were wearable and he was not taken seriously, engaged in the cultural life in Vienna its been  said  he spent a great deal of early life in the cafes drinking excessively, alcohol and experimenting with drugs, the imagination goes wild ! His practice has this nativity, experimentation and it's like he does not care what the world thinks he is just going about making art. My way of working takes heart in just making and playing hopefully can interact with my larger works, will see.

‘5 Reasons to go see Franz West’

Thomas Hirschorn installation massive cardboard and collage of material

Looking at Hirschorn i am seeing a mass of collage material the is going to build my studio space, who knows where it all take me.

RMIT Building 39 level one Masters of Art, my studio

As an artist studio like last year in building 6 (Honors) my mission is to change the enviroment, stuff will fill the void, transform the internal space, change the hospital external appearance into a busy beehive of creations. Not intending to do another take on Kurt Schwitters Merzbau , my studio is going to be more of a collage of thoughts ideas, writings and sculptures.

A verbal supplement is how you may interact with this mornings work at Uni

This coloured pencil drawing is ready to be discarded. May be the first of many attempts to use images rather than a title to describe a thought process, there are many other titles that could equally illustrate what i am thinking yest this one just felt right today. Tomorrow i may have another object based title for it.

Andy Warhol in his Contemporary Art paintings of Campbells Soup tins shows how his paintings of Campbell soup tins describes content.

Patti Smith interview at Chicago Humanities Festival.

She is so inspiring as Patti discuses her new book Year of the monkey.

Patti so relatable to the every day person, what i resonate with is her no nonsense self description on life, no bull just words that make sense. She talks about loss, how she copes with losing loved ones and the celebration of the good memories. As i have watched other you Tubes on her talking about the book Just Kidds , about her early life with Robert Maplethorp I relate this back to my studio space there is some solitude she articulates and i find this strikes a cord with he way i work in my studio.