It comes to me that I may well be, like a kid with an "overactive imagination".... "over-creative".
I always seem to be overloading my time with creative projects, and they are all very very cool, interesting projects. I just cant seem to turn down opportunities to do fun stuff!
Lets see what's on the agenda for the moment...
Last night was my first performance at the Wellington Dr Sketchy, and the end of an EPIC three weeks of frantic juggling - moving house (packing sucks), working the two day jobs, making my costume and rehearsing, and working on funding proposals.
Performing for Dr Sketchy was a very fine experience. As a long time life model, with a frustration that all my life drawing classes only want totally naked poses, and want to avoid the horror of drapery at all costs, it was very satisfying to pose in mask, winged jacket and giant bustle.
I will try to post some images of the costume as soon as I can... essentially, think semi victorian bird lady....
I can safely say that I have a bit of an obsession with feathers, their form, feel and colour give you so many options to play with!
I realised last night, as I lay on the couch, that I had that delicious sense of relief, of reaching a point of completion. Tick! one thing off the list... now onto the next!
Yes... funding proposals....that fine torture of presenting your fragile, exciting idea to a panel of powers that be. Hoping against hope that you manage to actually come across as articulate, imaginative, groundbreaking and competent all at once.
The proposal is for a show I am developing with my friend Maria Dabrowska. It's called Monster Burlesque, and in case that confuses you, think of a combination of the Rocky Horror Picture show and The Muppets.... yes.... you get it now don't you?
This is an image I found on the net while researching monstery things... sorry to whoever owns this image, as I lost the URL for it! Doh... but I dooooo love it!
Along side this, I am making new work for the Monsters exhibition - run by the same uber talented group that put on the Robots show at Thistle Hall last year...This time the Monsters show will be at the My Galaxy gallery on Dixon St... down below the footpath... sounds like a good place for monsters to lurk eh?
So.... monsters... currently thinking of using scraps of fur and leather, feathers and fluff... monsters that look slightly self-created....I can see some very late sewing sessions coming up!
This pic is of my latest work, for the Head On exhibition at Toi Poneke... it's called What Really Happened to Goldilocks and is made from antique mink coat, silk, brass, copper, box-wood, doll parts and an antique lense. The dismembered cupie doll in his tummy is actually a wee necklace you can take out and wear.
You can ask me why I made him if you like... it's not as gruesome as you might think.. more a metaphorical bit of imagery.
He's sitting on some leaves, debris from my old garden... and hidden amongst the leaves are tiny birdbones, some set with tiny gems, an strung on chains...
The idea being that you will notices them only if you look for detail in unusual places. My little reward for your overactive imagination!
I always seem to be overloading my time with creative projects, and they are all very very cool, interesting projects. I just cant seem to turn down opportunities to do fun stuff!
Lets see what's on the agenda for the moment...
Last night was my first performance at the Wellington Dr Sketchy, and the end of an EPIC three weeks of frantic juggling - moving house (packing sucks), working the two day jobs, making my costume and rehearsing, and working on funding proposals.
Performing for Dr Sketchy was a very fine experience. As a long time life model, with a frustration that all my life drawing classes only want totally naked poses, and want to avoid the horror of drapery at all costs, it was very satisfying to pose in mask, winged jacket and giant bustle.
I will try to post some images of the costume as soon as I can... essentially, think semi victorian bird lady....
I can safely say that I have a bit of an obsession with feathers, their form, feel and colour give you so many options to play with!
I realised last night, as I lay on the couch, that I had that delicious sense of relief, of reaching a point of completion. Tick! one thing off the list... now onto the next!
Yes... funding proposals....that fine torture of presenting your fragile, exciting idea to a panel of powers that be. Hoping against hope that you manage to actually come across as articulate, imaginative, groundbreaking and competent all at once.
The proposal is for a show I am developing with my friend Maria Dabrowska. It's called Monster Burlesque, and in case that confuses you, think of a combination of the Rocky Horror Picture show and The Muppets.... yes.... you get it now don't you?
This is an image I found on the net while researching monstery things... sorry to whoever owns this image, as I lost the URL for it! Doh... but I dooooo love it!
Along side this, I am making new work for the Monsters exhibition - run by the same uber talented group that put on the Robots show at Thistle Hall last year...This time the Monsters show will be at the My Galaxy gallery on Dixon St... down below the footpath... sounds like a good place for monsters to lurk eh?
So.... monsters... currently thinking of using scraps of fur and leather, feathers and fluff... monsters that look slightly self-created....I can see some very late sewing sessions coming up!
This pic is of my latest work, for the Head On exhibition at Toi Poneke... it's called What Really Happened to Goldilocks and is made from antique mink coat, silk, brass, copper, box-wood, doll parts and an antique lense. The dismembered cupie doll in his tummy is actually a wee necklace you can take out and wear.
You can ask me why I made him if you like... it's not as gruesome as you might think.. more a metaphorical bit of imagery.
He's sitting on some leaves, debris from my old garden... and hidden amongst the leaves are tiny birdbones, some set with tiny gems, an strung on chains...
The idea being that you will notices them only if you look for detail in unusual places. My little reward for your overactive imagination!
2 comments:
Beautiful work as always Vaune. Such gruesome delicacy. I'll bite, why did you make the bear that way?
Hey Rose! Gruesome he is - but I guess I wanted to make a bear that was more realistic in his nature.
I also realised as I was making him, that metaphorically, the bear was like our wild creative sides - and the plastic doll in his belly was like the societal side of ourselves. I think I was going through a bit of personal reconstruction, and was allowing my wild side to devour my overly mannered socially "acceptable" side.
Do you know what I mean?
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