Archives: Performance, Installation Art and Sculpture

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen, the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should […]

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”  Helen Keller I love this quote by Helen Keller and I feel that I can only achieve anything in my life not alone but when I am part of a community. “We all have to live together, so we might as well live […]

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”   Francis of Assisi  While I was doing my 6th or 7th studio residency at the Big Ci, I was thinking about this Saint Francis quote. I can relate to it, but I still feel I am just doing what is necessary. One day I hope to be doing […]

“Literature often uses the numinous to describe those fleeting moments where the ordinary becomes extraordinary. “ Google “There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.” (From Praise)  Robert Hass I did this blue neon numinous […]

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. “  Edward de Bono  I try to add humor to my art, particularly my drawings, but I don’t know if it always translates.  In this 22-minute video I have stitched together mainly my performance art pieces over the past few years, but there is also documentation of my sculptures, installation art, and drawings in […]

Video by Luke Foster and shot by Yannick Soyez “Lateral thinking… is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used.”  Edward De Bono I love this quote by Edward De Bono and it rings true after my beach shoot with Yannick yesterday as […]

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness”. Dalai Lama  I love this quote by the Dalai Lama and I agree that a simple philosophy of kindness is very important. In this performance I […]

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” -Dalai Lama I shall keep this text to go with this video and photos very simple and short as the video has an artist talk and that articulates what I want to say. I just want to thank Hansol Lim and Yannick Soyez and I am […]

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”   Dalai Lama I love this quote by the Dalai Lama and when I googled the words kind/quotes to go with my performance photo and video I found this quote by the Dalai Lama and it really spoke to me. I agree that its always possible to be […]

Today I did a shoot at home with Yannick and this time as my Korean Language exchange friend Christina always said taking photos of me on our trip to Melbourne many years ago suck it in so my stomach wouldn’t show. In the video I am holding a blue neon with the lower-case text: possible […]

Recently I have been reading a book titled Spirituality in Contemporary Art/ The Idea of the Numinous and it was written by the Korean Jungu Yoon and the idea of the numinous fascinates me. Its definition is “Numinous describes an experience or atmosphere that is deeply spiritual, mystical, or awe-inspiring, often suggesting the presence of a […]

This video photo shoot was shot by Yannickj Soyez and it revolved around a sketchbook of drawings about the American film maker Tim Burton and a big drawing I made in my living room yesterday that had a cross of black ink converse high tops and two white on black white high tops at the […]

Today me and Yannick did a photo video shoot and I called it Brain Calories after as I was talking with Yannick about how after a big creative project like me writing 61 essays for my next book called Spiritualism in Art and Life that you have severe mental and physical fatigue and this idea […]

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” Rumi I love this quote by Rumi about grief transforming into one’s deepest compassion. I also feel the deeper the wound the deeper the compassion […]

“As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are […]

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama I love this quote about the nature of kindness and compassion and I try to always enlarge my circle of friends so I can be more, happy. This photo video shoot featured me drawing Saint Francis […]

“Never see a need without doing something about it,” Mary MacKillop I love this quote by Mary MacKillop and have used it many times in my art and essays. I think it is a great explanation of the attribute of altruism. In the video and photos, I am wearing a white Vista Print T-shirt with […]

Yannick set up an IKEA trestle table for me about a week ago out the back. I brought it up to my apartment living room and have been playing each day making improvised installations and this video documentation of photographic stills and a video and a selfie are some of the ideas I came up […]

“Intuition is neither a luxury nor a shortcut; in deeply uncertain environments, intuition is a necessity.” Roger Spitz This performance with a white TEMU intuitive thinking neon was made to go on top of a plaster sculpture that I haven’t made yet for my next exhibition but once I received it in the post, I realised […]

“f I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”  Gaston Bachelard Today Yannick did a video shoot in the living room of my apartment where I do my ten drawings a day […]

“People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behaviour, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.” Johnny Depp I have been working on lots of sketchbook projects and one of them is a sketchbook of drawings for Johnny Depp and […]

Video and Photos by Yannick Soyez  “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future”    Bradley Whitford. In this video photo shoot, I am wearing a maroon Connor suit and a TEMU  hat holding a simple cardboard sculpture I made months ago and Converse shoes. […]

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch This beach performance and installation and sculpture involves a simple plaster building structure on a trestle table at the beach with the ocean behind it in the shot. The second shot is me holding the sculpture in casual clothing […]

“Altruism is innate, but it’s not instinctual. Everybody’s wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.” David Rakoff This is a simple video photo shoot of me holding a white neon saying altruism. I feel that many people that I admire have altruism and it makes them happy and everyone around them who […]

“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”  Francis of Assisi This slide show of my art from the last few years is a rehash that I have documented and shown before. I like the Saint Francis quote to go with it as I feel when I have studied the teachings of the […]