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So now I've joined tumblr, pinterest, and twitter. Is that all of them? Is there anything I'm forgetting? Not entirely sure why - mostly just a terrible urge to not Miss Out. Oh well. Feel free to add me on whatever - extrantice, as usual (hooray for made up words!).

I've been working fairly steadily on the cryptomnesia piece (nearly, neearrly, etc) since my last art post, so there isn't really much to report as far as my own stuff goes. I did possibly finish making a pair of goggles in Second Life, but I'm not very happy with them, so i neglected to take any snapshots.

So, that leaves me to find something else to write about. Thankfully there is, of course, a huge amount of art all over the damn place. The South West Survey* was on again this month. Neither my sister nor i entered, or attended the opening thing (circumstances rather overtook us on the night in question, unfortunately - we both would've liked to go), but we're making tentative plans to see the exhibition later this week. Quite looking forward to it. I wish you were allowed to take photos in the gallery, then I could show everyone my favourite pieces. Might be brave and ask about it specially - i don't have a huge gamut of followers, though, so the gallery might not look at it as publicity, or something. i dunno.
*South West Times Survey? South West Art Survey? South West Times Art Survey? South West Times Regional Art Survey?

Elsewhere in town (or possibly connected to the gallery, I'm not sure), there is an art event called... I must look that up. It was in one of last week's papers, I think...
Ah, here it is. Walk Your Art Out. It's about young people (from 16 to 25) making art and putting it in the windows of various local businesses in the central business district. Here is the facebook page: Walk Your Art Out.
Looks like fun, to enter (alas, I'm already 29), and to see. I have a fancy new diary (cat themed. Oh yes.), will definitely be writing in the dates for this.

Meanwhile, here is a webcomic i'm reading: A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible. The link shows the page i'm currently up to (i go slow with webcomics - there are so very many of them, all being read at once). Liking the art. Kind of messy, but still definitely clear enough to show what's happening. Colourific, too. The story seems to be about various, one-page adventures of two friends, the writer and artist of the comic. Surreal adventures, on the whole. Yayo.

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Feeling scattered, probably (maybe) thinking about too many different things. Also trying to do a few too many things at once... Need some coffee.

Saw a fantastic exhibition on Thursday. Very unsettling, very very good, very... uncanny valley, I guess. Patricia Piccinini's Relativity, at the WA Art Gallery. Here is her site, but it's hard to convey through the pictures how disturbing the exhibit was.
We looked at other pieces around the gallery afterwards. Everything seemed incredibly, almost supernaturally, ordinary. A bit like going outside on a bright day and then stumbling around in the dark upon coming back inside, y'know?
Not that I'm comparing Patricia Piccinini to sunshine or anything...

Another thing we liked - or found interesting, anyway - was a painting by Dale Frank. It was called Daniel Radcliffe (that's Harry Potter!) and looked like an oil slick. We decided it was probably evil.

The WA Art Gallery also has a site, by the way.

We! That is, me and my sister. We are a team, yeah. I've been thinking that maybe we should figure out some kind of thing like applying for joint studio residency somewhere. Haven't a clue how/where to start that. Also, it's kind of scary... But we work well together, even though we work separate.

Started on the postcards that I got from Smiggle. Yaay! Three have been posted, and one has already arrived, so I can feel okay about uploading a picture of it. The others will have to wait until they arrive. Buut I haven't transferred the pics (or any pics) to the computer yet, so blah blah etc.

Also started work on another digital collage thing, inspired by a song and also a word. The song is by the Cold War Kids, the word (and song title) is Cryptomnesia. This means, when one remembers something without realising that it's a memory.

Still playing with shapes in SL. Will upload pics of that relatively soon. Soonish.

There's something I'm forgetting here, I know it... Oh yeah! On Thursday we also visited PICA, the Perth Institue of Contemporary Arts. It was... okay. Would've liked it better if we hadn't seen Relativity first. Mildly unfortunate, because there was some good stuff there. My favourite piece is pictured here. One of the artists written about below the picture did it, but I can't remember which!

In other news, feeling somewhat better about things. Go go endorphins, yeah! :)