Archives: Performance, Installation Art and Sculpture

“Let no obstacle deter you from proceeding with courage” Saint Mary MacKillop, 1907 In this performance I’m wearing a baggy white Kmart T-shirt with a hand drawn image of Mary MacKillop holding an amazement neon. With a black Sharpie pen.  I came across this word amazement while searching for quotes to go with my sketchbook […]

“A mother is the truest friend we have.”  Washington Irving My favourite things in my apartment are the photo of my mum framed medium size in my bedroom and the multicoloured throw over rug that she had over her most days of the last year of her life in a nursing home in Sydney. Yesterday […]

A neon performance shoot shot by Yannick Soyez  In this performance I am holding a white neon with the word lateral and this neon came from a big black drawing with white neons and white oil stick text that I made at my last studio residency at the Big Ci. For this performance I just chose the word lateral that alludes to […]

” Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity  guide you in all your life. “ Mary MacKillop  I love this MacKillop quote, and it is a wise explanation of her incredible compassion.  This photo and video shoot by Yannick Soyez was me holding my most recent sketchbook with my ten drawings a day […]

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”  Dalai Lama   Today I am feeling a bit all over the shop, but I decided to push through by writing this post and choosing the best two photos that Yannick took today.  In this photo I am wearing a jacket I got from a Korean store […]

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”  Henry Rollins  From my early adult years Henry Rollins has been one of my favorite creatives, and I saw a spoken word show he did in Sydney in 1991 when I was 19 and I don’t know how old he was, but he was the most gifted orator I have seen.  What I love about […]

“Complexity creates confusion, simplicity creates focus.” Edward De Bono I agree with Edward De Bono that perhaps things particularly dealing with creativity are often much better and effective if they are simple not complex. In this video and photo shoot by Yannick Soyez I am holding a white complex neon in front of my lateral […]

“Whether a work can be classified under the heading [mail art] does not only depend on its aesthetic qualities, but also – or especially – on the informative, communicative and cultural intentions included in the mailing of the work itself.” Unknown quote This slide show video is of a secret mail art project that I’m […]

“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 […]