Driving

car trouble

So whilst daughter #2 had a swimming lesson in Kambah, I made a temporary installation (just off Jenke circuit, for those Canberra bound).

The theme is the relationship between inert nature and progress.

The tire is the perfect exemplar of the liberation made possible by tapping into the earth’s energy and resources. The tire represents a dualism within modernity it is both made from oil products, but is also part of /driven by (motivated) a motor car which also runs on oil products. It is round, it contains within its shape a moving dynamism, it flows, as does its composite parts, it also allows for the moving (backwards and forwards) of associated parts to which it is affixed. It is the modern precondition of a wheel, we cannot say a wheel rim contains the function of circle or round, it is the tire which completes and defines the movement made possible by transport.

The situation of the tires – that is removed from their normal set quadrilateral situation – is linear, the far tire not receding but both becoming and dissolving.

The tires have been positioned three times.

The first image contains four tires (the number for a standard car) lying down. The positioning in this state implies a lack of dynamism, the absence of a car indicates the nullification of purpose or in fact a negation of the possibility of movement. In this position indeed the tires represent nothing so much as a set of holes. Holes that reach beyond the tires and point us back into the ground/earth from which both we and the tire materials came.

The tires standing signify movement, the tire is caught in the process of movement, our gaze has stilled them for a brief period, but we know if we look away they will roll away as if involuntary, so instilled within their self/ image is the idea of movement. The tire in its standing position also represents the dynamic progress of humans, constantly evolving and shaping the environment.

The final image, of a singular tire, within through which we can see further tires shows us the possibility of love.

In case you are unsure of where still, it's between the two strips of trees across from the street name and building (pool).

New camera - first photo - manual

Charles at 60

Happy Birthday Your Majesty, I fucking love you btw.

New dawn

So Obama won! yes, I know I'm a bit late in noticing, but I live far away.


Here is my list of things I expect to see change once he takes over in January, I can't believe all that effort and excitement over his campaign and eventual election will lead to nothing. I will tick them off as each is solved.







OK I admit the last is not going to happen soon.


"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" - John Lydon, San Francisco

What will survive of us is love

Craft or Death?

Houellebecq

"The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A figure in transition toward chaos. That is what will finally prevail. The human race will disappear. Other races in turn will appear and disappear. The skies will be glacial and empty, traversed by the feeble light of half-dead stars. These too will disappear. Everything will disappear. And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movement of the elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure "Victorian fictions". All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact and radiant."

Michel Houellebecq discussing HP Lovecraft here.
From his book Against the World, Against Life, 2005.

I am pace Houellebecq a firm believer in life, but I agree with the initial and final statement.

Au Pairs

After an interregnum always good to come back with a song.

Curtin

I am moving to Curtin.


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ACT Libraries wants you

"The ACT Library and Information Service are planning for an exciting future - and YOU are invited to assist" so go here and read their discussion paper.
Sleepovers are not apparently on the agenda.

Found objects - mask

Woolworths Erindale