In my last trip to Melbourne I spent quite some time thinking about this blog and its purpose. Although I still don’t have a clear idea of what shape postings will take – walking around the National Gallery Of Victoria I came across exhibition of Rosalie Gascoigne’s work (an artist I have admired – ad for a few shorts years in Sydney, even had the pleasure of sharing a house with a friend who owned one her yellow reflector pieces).
Gascoigne’s came to the art world in the later stages of her life. One of her talents is an ability to take familiar and often mundane objects and reassemble them in an intriguing manner. Whilst she is not the first artist to reinvent herself in her latter years, she chose the very sort of bold materials and statements one would normally identify with a younger generation (Warhol, for instance). 10 years after her death I still believe that her work is an example of rare skill.
Bloggers also cut and paste the recycled. And if I were to offer a criteria to what makes good blogging (and by default, create a benchmark for my own online contributions) I would have to say that it is Gascoigne’s work that characters good work in the blogosphere: a sensitive treatment of the lost and found online.
It is a challenge as much to myself as it is to other bloggers.
NB: Images in the banner heading and this post are all Gascoigne’s works are all temporarily being used – and will be removed once this blog is officially launched to a wider audience.
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