Trust
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I love you, / you know / / / / thank you
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Background to the Work I shot this piece on June 25th, long before I knew about the competition. I entered it because a couple of people on Red Bubble suggested I do so. I didn’t think or know it would win, I just entered on a whim, thinking I had nothing to lose and everything to gain if I did happen to win. I didn’t expect to because I know the quality of much of the work around here is so high. Charlie, one of the models I regularly work with was coming up for a shoot and we’d never done anything especially edgy despite the fact that she has a very striking and distinct look. I knew visually that her red lips and red nails with the spiky black hair would create a great visual impact against the strong design of the American flag. My initial idea when I bought the 3 US naval shirts and forage caps was to get three girls, similarly dressed with the rosaries and red lips and make an image I intended on entitling, “God’s Army”. I haven’t gotten around to it, because it is not only difficult to find three girls who look similar enough to carry it off, but even when I do find them, aligning everyones schedules aways seems to be a massive headache. What Inspired it I have to be honest, I’m not a fan of the current American government. I think the war in Iraq was pointless and a mistake, the lives taken on both sides (of the Iraqi people and the US military) is heartbreaking. Despite having a Christian upbringing, I cannot abide the way America’s right wing often equates being in power with political and religious absolutism, not unlike the Divine Right of Kings which is existed in the middle ages. I don’t believe there is any place for religion in politics, the Bible seems to back this up when it says, “Render Caesars things to Caesar and God’s things to God”. I take that to mean these things should be kept separate from each other. The Bible also says, Thou Shalt not Murder and yet right back to the Crusades through to the present, people have always found justification to kill in God’s name. So essentially, the work is a comment on the right wing governments who believe that God directs their decision making, specifically the decision to go to another country and destroy the lives of the people living there, who have different religious beliefs and ideals and plenty of the magical black gold that keeps America (and the rest of the world) running….and thereby steamrolling anyone who stands in their path/giving anyone who disagrees a loud and clear F—K YOU!. How anyone figured I meant she was giving God the bird I will never figure out. What I like about the work I really like the way the colours are reminiscent of 16mm film from the 60’s, a time of great upheaval in American political history. It has a feeling of Zapruder about it. With relation to the concept, I like the way Charlie (the model) is somewhat tarted up with lipstick and the glossy reflection of the sunglasses (which also make her appear cold and anonymous) yet, the flag is dirty and faded looking which is to my mind what has happened to America’s image over the last 8 years or so. One last note I am a huge fan of America, love lots of things about America and am more tolerant about America than most people I know. I’ve never visited but everyone else in my family has. The only reason I haven’t is because of my inability to save enough to get over there…it’s top of the list on places I’d like to visit. My brother-in-law who I get on very well with was born and raised in America and we have many conversations about where he can find American food products so he feels more at home here in Australia (although he has developed a taste for vegemite, so perhaps he really has crossed over to the dark side!). I am disgusted by the un-Christian way some of the apparent Christians on RedBubble have treated me regarding this image. There has been no Christ-like tolerance or compassion shown, rather a knee-jerk reaction which has made me feel depressed, miserable and certainly embarassed by all the attention.
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Hadrian’s Wall, summer 2007
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Mix medium photograph of a nest with 3 eggs and the Chinese characters LOVE, TRUST DREAM FORTUNE.
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Teddies are sharing secrets / / Other work: / / / / / / / /
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This kitten and the calf are such good friends. They are always together. It was amazing to see.
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This picture of a lovely laughing child was taken some years ago now while I was driving out from Meekathara in the WA central desert on my way towards the Gun Barrel Highway. At a tiny camp called Wiluna I stopped to look for some art and come across this family sitting in their car in the shade. This child’s sweet face has stayed with me all this time but today, this momentus day, is the first time I’ve felt like I could display it. Little Debbie and her family are impoverished by anyones standard but they clearly have love and strong family bonds. This child represents what we that is we white Australians are saying sorry for. Sorry that we couldn’t see value in our fellow Australians. The first settlers here in this wide brown land. Sorry that we took little children away from their family and their country and people. Only a relatively short time ago this child and her mother would have fled at my approach fearing my whiteness and the dreadful things we whites perpetrated upon them in the name of the law. So from the bottom of my heart Debbie I would like to say Sorry. Sorry Sorry indeed I am very sorry. And I hope that now we can all go on together in peace and trust and mutal respect. For all the little Debbie’s white and black and brown and pink and yellow lets all step forward together hand in hand and welcome whatever it is that comes next….....
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To Touch a Hunter
by Jessica TrempThat’s what you get for running with foxes
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Photomanipulation in Photoshop CS2. Stock used with permission: / Lamp You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; / my God turns my darkness into light. Psalm 18:28 Let me hear in the morning of Your steadfast love, / for in You I trust. Make me know the way I should go, / for to You I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8
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I spotted this couple having their photoshoot when I was about at least a clear 70m away. Snapped it and converted it with some blur to the background while keeping the couple sharp. Love how their height is set against the relatively gigantic pillars
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Flynn holding daddy’s finger at three days old.
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I think this is a juvenile female cardinal, judging from the color of the bill and from her childlike curiosity, hanging around the feeder longer than usual and looking around with intense interest and not a whole lot of nervousness as is evident in more mature birds. A beautiful trusting little girl!
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when he laid me down / he did not realize / that he would pierce my soul / it suprised him i think / it was’nt his intent / to plunder and pillage his goal rolling over us both / the passion of submission / became the dominance of one / sharing of joy / in the understanding / that power is useless / in affairs of the heart rendered open / by trust / not / lust meeting in the middle / by butchart more stories here
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Watch a spine chilling Cover by Homogenic here / or see the Original by The Cure here there is no-one left in the world / that i can hold onto / there is really no-one left at all / there is only you / and if you leave me now / you leave all that we were / undone / there is really no-one left / you are the only one and still the hardest part for you / to put your trust in me / i love you more than i can say / why won’t you just believe? The Cure
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Catch Me….I’m falling…Nouveau style angel Image copyright © 2008 Shanina Conway. / Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited
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Bisous
by bellmuskerThis what I’ll write about you when you leave
With a respectful nod to T.S. Eliot Here I am, a ripe woman in a red room / Being held by a boy, ready to leap
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the creek and water is a great place for leveling and expression. the day was erotic in nature. it called for more than just a model and a photographer. the brutality of the gas mask and the clarity of the spirits in this area gave us a feeling that life was worth more than just what it had become.
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This photo of an industrious little wren gathering nest building materials seemed to go well with the verse from Proverbs: Entrust your works to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.
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This is another favorite verse of mine from Psalm 28:7 This has been a source of peace and comfort. / /
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Mixed medium collage on various papers. Photograph of bird’s nest printed on Japanese rice paper with gouache staining and chinese calligraphy. Red square collage with bird head. Japanese block printed tree paper. Two leaves collaged onto Kinwashi paper. A fortune reads ” A pleasant surprise is in store for you”. The characters mean: love, trust, dream, and fortune.
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Drown Me part 2
by Melissa VowellShe stared into my eyes for a full minute before standing up and walking out. In the distance I could hear the delicious confirmation …
The response to part 1 spurred me to write the rest of the story
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