Archives: Essays

“Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.”  Frank Darabont I like this quote about the long history of drawing back to cave men prior to the birth of writing. For about the past five years I have been working on a ten-drawings a day project […]

“Never see a need without doing something about it,” to “Love one another, bear with one another,” and to “Teach more by example than by word,” Mary Mackillop These quotes are by the Catholic saint Mary Mackillop and her and Saint Francis are my favourite saints. “Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ (in religion Mary of the Cross; 15 January 1842 – 8 August […]

 “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart” William Wordsworth I like this quote by Wordsworth and I feel that’s what my journaling was like last year when I journaled most days and also filled the a4 notebooks with many drawings. I found that journaling helped me fix my many issues both practically and […]

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails constantly to reach my destination. “ Jimmy Dean I like this quote and I feel the same that you cannot control life but you can control how you deal with it. I feel the best way to deal with adversity is […]

“Developing a strong “spiritual backbone” alongside physical exercise involves aligning your inner resolve with outward action.” Google Search  I like this quote about aligning physical exercise and inner resolve and feel when they align one can really shine. “It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the […]

“The glory of the elderly is their insight, their knowledge, and their wisdom.” Lailah Gifty Akita Probably the best time in my life was when mum was old and I became her primary caregiver when I lived with her particularly over the last few years. Then when she had to many falls and needed more […]

“Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.” Kevin R.Stone I love this quote about the benefits of drinking lots of water and in the last year have started drinking around three litres daily. […]

“My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established, I am allergic to things like gluten – I can’t eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.” Novak Djokovic I’m kind of a vegetarian but I still eat eggs […]

“To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” Susan Sontag I like this quote about the connection between mortality and photography but I feel particularly in photographs and drawing that they can capture life […]

“That is beautiful which springs from inner need, which springs from the soul.” Wassily Kandinsky I like this quote by the late Russian painter/artist Kandinsky about how an artist makes their art sing when it is an expression of the soul. I felt this as a viewer of his paintings at the Guggenheim in New […]

“It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.” Tim Burton I have always been a movie buff but now I have taken that obsession to new levels. Most days and evenings I watch at least two movies on Netflix and most days it’s three. I was talking […]

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” Albert Einstein I’ve been a vegetarian on and off during my life but it’s been steady over the past four or five years. Mum spent the last year of her life […]

“Swimming is simply moving meditation“ Cesar Nikko Caharian I think all the swimming first thing in the morning five days a week over the past three months has emptied my mind out so the job of renovating my apartment has shifted too and I am seeing all the different possibilities to make it minimal and […]

“The water doesn’t know how old you are.” – Dara Torres Every morning, I swim laps at the local twenty- five metre pool and I had a disrupted sleep last night so I only swam forty laps instead of my normal sixty laps. Sixty laps takes about three hours for me as I sort of […]

Over the past four years a lot has happened and I need to slow down a lot to take stock so I can process everything and feel more grounded. Mum died two and a half years ago while I was at the airport in Rome on the way to Athens and I’ve bought my own […]

When I look at the art of Anish Kapoor and Wolfgang Laib I am deeply impressed by the emptiness and spirituality of their installations, drawings and sculptures. “I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is incredible, that is beyond the imagination, […]

I think I loved my mum so much because she was a school teacher and grandmother and she looked after me expertly when I had lost my way and made me see the error of my ways so I wouldn’t keep making the same mistakes. Forgive me mum. Sorry, mum. When I think of my […]

This essay is a break away from my other essays as I used to occasionally talk about my spiritual beliefs via the quotes I chose and my role models but now I am moving away to trying to make spiritual art and writing rather than occasionally broaching political ideas. I realised I am too sensitive […]

‘Cause you were amazingAnd we did amazing thingsAnd I wouldn’t change it‘Cause we were amazing things! Rebuilding bridges in your mindYour eagerness now is on the lineThe plastic mountain at your feetDivided streets now as you look to find a seat” Amazing lyrics Alex Loyd  I have lost count but posted about 60 boxes of […]

I need to thank and praise the indigenous people of the world, all different ethnicities, and all different religions. There is richness in diversity and tolerance in having gratitude for everyone. The best avenue for this tolerance and gratitude on a global scale is international sport as the friendly healer and culture too particularly music,art […]

Wednesday, 16 April 2025 Apple CEO Tim Cook One Apple Park Way; Cupertino, CA 95014, U.S.A. From Luke Foster Dear Tim, I am an Australian artist and writer and I am an avid Apple fan and use Apple computers, I Pad and I Phone. I particularly like using my I Phone to shoot videos and […]

Thursday, 3 April 2025 The Director General of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao : Miren Arzalluz Abandoibarra Etorbidea, 2, 48009 Bilbao From :Luke Foster Dear Miren , I am an Australian artist and I recently sent my latest zine to you with a video on a USB stick. This time I am sending a box of […]

Exhibition by Luke Foster at Kirra Hill Community Centre Monday 16th June to Monday 30 June 1 Garrick St, Coolangatta QLD “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama This coming exhibition at Kirra Hill is my second and last solo show of the […]

Monday, 17 March 2025 Colin Huang TEMU 6 RAFFLES QUAY, #14-06, SINGAPORE (Postal 048580) Luke Foster Dear Huang, I am an avid TEMU customer and regularly use your materials and products in my art installations. For example: in my last solo exhibition at Kirra Hill Community Centre in Australia called: Competing to be the World’s […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai I felt deeply sad when I wrote this very short essay this evening but when I added this Malala qoute I felt lighter and filled with hope. I’ve got to be a lot […]