The First of January is When I commenced
Mass Application for a new year Initiation
Artist / Writer / Archivist / Investigator
1. artcollectivewa.com.au
2. artsource.net.au
3. Theosophical Society - Perth Branch
tsperth.com/contact, tsperth@iinet.net.au
4. Rosicrucian Order AMORC - info@amorc.org.au
5. Robert Buratt - enquire for collective 777 esoteric art guild membership. mail@robertburatti.art
6. otoaustralia.org.au - johnmcdonald.net.au/2013/windows-to-the-sacred/ - collective777 - lodge 777
7. perth.smartygrants.com.au/vsgpppt
8. creativityalliance.com/forum
Whithersoever we go, the world remains the same narrow crib - Do All Roads Lead to Home?
WASADM Grad Show 2003 - Artist's Statement.
"I consider words to be an abbreviation of what reality could be."
"Visual art is my tool to subvert the presupposed meanings of language so then the imagination can propagate new ideas."
1. Celling, selling... souled!
53.9 x 150cm
ochre, coffee & chicory essence
2. Elucidation v 1.02,
dimensions variable
mixed media (traffic cone, concrete square pavers x2, linen lace pattered curtains, fine graphite powder, acrylic paint, varnist, dissolved polystyrene trays and food packaging)
On a whim, it flickers. More lark with obfuscated risks than flame lighting creative spark. Yet entirely spurned by coming home to using visual (and surely other formats) of art as tools for subverting presupposed meanings of language, catalysing a cumulative cascade for my imagination to ride, propagating new ideas for all!
So I applied to become a member of the following; Perth Rosicrucian Socety, Perth Theosophical Society, Perth O.T.O 777 ldoge. A brief online investigation resulted in several uncanny coincidences. A local OTO member Robert Buratti, successfully toured and curated an exhibition titled "Windows to the Sacred" in 2013.
While my whins nudged me to apply for esoteric orders for human company and engagement, I did intend to flex and expand upon what I knew already of occult, spiritualism and symbolism.
Each of my membership applications note the first day of 2023 as an opportunity to really enliven, self anew. At the itme of writing my intent wasn't solidified but once, twice, thrice I smoked a cigarette under the ventilator in my kitchen - got solid.
I'm an artist / writer / archiver / investigator.
My paintings hanging from the wall spoke back to me; from my 2000-2003 self to my 2023 self. I turned full circle and gaze settling on an Arthur Hugh Clough verse I photocopied and stuck onto practically every house I've lived in, for over a decade... Drawing of full forced smile, and mirth. Inside 'yep, I'm coming home, and yep it's now revealed that spiritually I never left.