My day off.

Today was my day off and not wanting to waste a whole day, I went op shopping with my lovely friends Laura and Angus. After we picked Angus up we went to the op shop down the road from his house. I bought a pink vase and a cute pair of shoes, and Laura bought Angus a children's Batman mask and cape combo for $2, and I'll get a photo of it soon and stick it on here. Purely because it's the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a while. Before we properly set off though we had to go into town so I could withdraw money, and we bumped into Arruna and Karl from The Medics. Karl tried our bubble tea and seemed intrigued and possibly afraid of the beverage, and Arruna said "bye Karl" and joined us on our op shop crawl. Angus directed us to a place I'd never heard of, called..

and is was the most magical and amazing and lovely and brilliant op shop I've ever been to in my entire existence. I found this awesome retro tv from the 50's or 60's and apparently it still works and I had to have it.. it was only $20, c'mon! I also bought two doilies and a cat teapot. It's possibly the most kitsch thing I own.

Angus found a tin man costume

We went to Kaotica, then to Night Owl to get slushies coz MAN it was so freakin' hot today, like you wouldn't believe. At the Earlville Lifeline Laura and I tried on these fantastic Asian wedding dresses.

Mine didn't zip up though coz it was tiny, so I was walking around the shop like a proper Asian hooker with my bra strap hanging out. We were hot.

After we picked up Laura's sister Olivia from school and dropping her home we went to Crackerbox Palace. Laura found this hideous but strangely amazing cowboy-like floral shirt that she vowed to go back and buy when she got paid, and I really hope she does coz she's a big babe when she wears it.

Eventually it came past 4 o'clock and Angus realised he had to go home, so after dropping Arruna off at a red light on Lake Street, and running over Angus's foot when we dropped him off at his house, I finally got home.. Only to realise that I'd left my tv in Laura's boot :(

She's stopping by later to drop it off to me, so I'll set how that baby runs. Oh yeah, it was a pretty excellent day.

my first public exhibition!

Last night was the opening of the exhibition 'All Today's Parties' at Crate59! We were given around 4 days to develop an idea and create an artwork based on the thoughts of what we do today for fun and our social fabric, trends, etc. We were asked questions like "what consumes you?" and "what is 'cool'?". I had a piece exhibited and it was so fulfilling to watch people smile and tell me they like my art, and that they agree with my artist's statement. Here's my response to the question, what consumes you?



The curator arranged and displayed it so wonderfully!



"This Is How We Live Now
Prior to creating this piece I was asked the
question, "What consumes us?" Simply: technology.
We've woven such intimate relationships with
technology that we can no longer see ways to live
without it. People develop anxiety over the loss of
a mobile phone and insist on paying hundreds
of dollars to upgrade to a flashy, newer
version of something they already own.

It's terrible quality as I just enlarged the first photo and didn't actually take a separate photo of the artist's statement. More enlargements:

"this is how we socialize."

more enlargements.



"this is how we tune out."

more enlargements.



"this is how we read the news."



"this is how we live now."
"this is what consumes us."



on the wall. The Medics were playing live, and the music fit well with the setting and theme of the exhibition, so it turned out to be a good end to the night :)





the local kids, sitting around while The Medics play live.



post-Medics, when everyone was either lounging around or leaving. I left. I was tired!

Yeah, it was a good night. Next week is the opening of the Energy Exhibition at The Tanks, where two of my photos will be shown, so I'll be sure to post that as well!