the carnival is over

it seems that the origin of the word "carnival" comes from the Italian words carne vale, which mean a removing of meat, as a proof of the sensual licences given to the faithful during shrovetide. oh, how appropriate..

and the removal of the 'meat' is now complete and the works for she sees red are back in my spare room. it was a fantastic experience and to have 320+ people through the doors to check out my show, was pretty exciting, especially because most people had heard about the concepts and were interested. it was great to have some intelligent discourse in the gallery!



the carnival theme seems to be continuing in my next work as well. jade pegler and i are putting in a proposal for the wollongong city gallery residency and one of the projects we're working on is slightly based around the idea of carnival -in the original sense. a little bit middle ages, a little bit rob zombie/mike patton and a little bit louise bourgeouis. hopefully we're successful, 'cos if nothing else, i'm looking forward to developing a soundtrack for it.

the works will be based on the eggs that i do, plus jade's puppetry/construction/textile works, with a background in theatrical display and viscera. a kind of macabre and discombobulated look at the mechanations of life cycles, in a way.