Small Blog love...

"Also at 69 Smith St. and part of the Middsumma Festival are Cara Jones digitally manipulated kaleidoscopic images of Melbourne, Clinton Hayden's delicate paintings of strands of red thread, Tristan Jalleh's fantastic charcoal and graphite drawings gay zombies."

- http://markcritic.artsblogs.com/blog/blog.asp?blogId=8551

I'm over the red thread, but I like this

I used to drivel

I used to write stuff.

The Weight and The Density,

I used to measure love with loss.

Obsessed with ticking movements

Calculated distances to out-sync

One rhythm

With another,

But in the end it always returns,

Marching triple time and

Confusing the beat.

I try to paint it out,

Pluck it out,

Scrawl it down.

Ghost feelings rambling around in an area

Usually occupied by the loved one,

Catching for moments here

And there, causing something like

Emotional reflux.

Shut it out,

Although it comes back in dreams

And teases for days.

Sleepless with irrational thoughts

About the weight and

The density.

Second march,

Third march:

Kitchen floor.

Bathroom.

Hallway and Back.

obsessed

horse, lamp

horse, lamp
Originally uploaded by Clinton_Hayden

I am in love with it.

Exhibition Pics

self portraits and narcissism

self portrait
Originally uploaded by Clinton_Hayden

am always intrigued by self portraits... what makes a self portrait a portrait and not a snap shot?

things like myspace photos and digital camera shots you take on your own, they are always a bit narcissistic. What makes them any less valid than photographs by people like Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman or even Anthony Goicolea? some are well constructed, have great composition or lighting even when completely accidental.... and you are creating another version of yourself, for the camera, for others to look at, just like Sherman or Goicolea. Maybe it's the scale... Maybe something else...

thoughts?

hanging

Originally uploaded by YUUUP

this is me hanging my show... shot by brit