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Photo of the industrial plant of operations and near Indian Island captured from California Highway 255 and on the Samoa Bridge in Eureka. Humboldt Bay. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
The second Gallery of the Washington Square East Gallery. The "Small Works Show" has been going on each winter for the past 30 years. Unforturnately, I wasn't selected to this years show.
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Photo captured off the Oregon Coast Highway, U.S. 101, at Humbug Mountain State Park in Curry County. State of Oregon. "State of Jefferson." 2013.
There are times when life dosent go as planned. When this happens we can feel intense emotions like greif, resentment, disappointment, and fear. Those emotions can lead you to a lower vibrational state and in that state you can discover your “Shadow Self”. Everyone has a shadow and it can be very beneficial to not shut out that part of yourself . It’s important to experience these intense emotions so that you can uncover deeper parts of yourself to either embrace or let go before the next cycle in life.
Watercolour on paper
Self-portraits from the 1980s to the Millennium
In the autumn of 1983, almost every day for two months, Hockney challenged himself to produce a self-portrait in charcoal. This period of intense self-reflection was, in part, a reaction to the untimely deaths of many of his friends due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The honesty and vulnerability exposed in these drawings is a far cry from the confident self-portraits of thirty years earlier. Like the pages of a diary, these works record the daily changes in the artist’s moods and emotions.
In 1999, alongside his camera lucida drawings he made a series of self-portraits, for which he could not use this optical tool. These playful and vulnerable drawings in which he displays different facial expressions, were influenced by Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings. In others, he adopted the classical side profile and half-length pose found in self-portraiture throughout art history.
In 2002 Hockney turned to watercolour, a medium he hadn’t explored since the 1960s. This new way of working freed up his approach; allowing him to draw quickly and directly onto paper. Hockney described the watercolour series as ‘portraits for the new millennium’, convinced that, despite his experimentation with the camera lucida, the human eye, the hand and the heart were the best tools for capturing the individuality of his sitters.*
From the exhibition
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
(November 2023 - January 2024)
David Hockney (b.1937) is regarded as one of the master draughtsmen of our times. He widely champions drawing, which is at the heart of his studio activity and has underpinned his work throughout his life. From the early pen and ink and coloured pencil drawings, to his more recent experiments with watercolour and digital technology, the artist’s inventive visual language has taken many different stylistic turns.
Over the past six decades he has never stood still, or rested on a particular approach, medium or technique, remaining inquisitive, playful and thought provoking while generously sharing his ideas with his audience. His drawing reflects his admiration for both the Old Masters and ‘modern Masters’ from Rembrandt to Picasso.
Drawing from Life explores the artist’s unique vision of the world around him, which is played out in portraits of himself and his intimate circle. A room of new ‘painted drawings’ of visitors to his Normandy studio in 2021-2 offer a glimpse of Hockney’s continuing working life.
All works in the exhibition are by David Hockney..
[*National Portrait Gallery]
Taken in National Portrait Gallery
Froma while back, one of my early attempts at selective colouring. I love playing around with reflections
Huile sur toile, 63x100cm - 2018
david-al.com/projets/in-search-for-narcissus/
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"in search for narcissus"
oil on canvas
Charcoal on paper
Self-portraits from the 1980s to the Millennium
In the autumn of 1983, almost every day for two months, Hockney challenged himself to produce a self-portrait in charcoal. This period of intense self-reflection was, in part, a reaction to the untimely deaths of many of his friends due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The honesty and vulnerability exposed in these drawings is a far cry from the confident self-portraits of thirty years earlier. Like the pages of a diary, these works record the daily changes in the artist’s moods and emotions.
In 1999, alongside his camera lucida drawings he made a series of self-portraits, for which he could not use this optical tool. These playful and vulnerable drawings in which he displays different facial expressions, were influenced by Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings. In others, he adopted the classical side profile and half-length pose found in self-portraiture throughout art history.
In 2002 Hockney turned to watercolour, a medium he hadn’t explored since the 1960s. This new way of working freed up his approach; allowing him to draw quickly and directly onto paper. Hockney described the watercolour series as ‘portraits for the new millennium’, convinced that, despite his experimentation with the camera lucida, the human eye, the hand and the heart were the best tools for capturing the individuality of his sitters.*
From the exhibition
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
(November 2023 - January 2024)
David Hockney (b.1937) is regarded as one of the master draughtsmen of our times. He widely champions drawing, which is at the heart of his studio activity and has underpinned his work throughout his life. From the early pen and ink and coloured pencil drawings, to his more recent experiments with watercolour and digital technology, the artist’s inventive visual language has taken many different stylistic turns.
Over the past six decades he has never stood still, or rested on a particular approach, medium or technique, remaining inquisitive, playful and thought provoking while generously sharing his ideas with his audience. His drawing reflects his admiration for both the Old Masters and ‘modern Masters’ from Rembrandt to Picasso.
Drawing from Life explores the artist’s unique vision of the world around him, which is played out in portraits of himself and his intimate circle. A room of new ‘painted drawings’ of visitors to his Normandy studio in 2021-2 offer a glimpse of Hockney’s continuing working life.
All works in the exhibition are by David Hockney..
[*National Portrait Gallery]
Taken in National Portrait Gallery
Oct 7 281/366
Reflect-o-me
Flickr Group Roulette today doing Self Reflection and I wanted to add a little color... so off to Target we went.
Digital me trapped in the physical world.. so this is what makes the world go round!!
self reflections - taken with my iphone.
Photo captured at a sheep ranch, with a hint of Redwood National Park in the background, in the town of Orick. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
Outside of Te Papa, there were 4 reflective sculptures with kaleidescope surfaces. Despite the recent rain, Fanny & I couldn't resist taking a few photos.
Does the fear of being wrong make honesty harder? In this short, reflective monologue, Sindy explores how permanence, visibility, and public judgment can cause honesty to hesitate. When being wrong feels costly, truth can become cautious—or disappear entirely.
A calm reflection on vulnerability, honesty, and emotional risk in modern life.
SCRIPT:
Being wrong used to be temporary.
You said something.
You adjusted.
You moved on.
Now it can feel permanent.
Statements linger.
Screenshots exist.
Context disappears.
And so honesty starts to hesitate.
Not because we don’t have thoughts,
but because we’re unsure
which version of them
is safe enough to say out loud.
We soften language.
We add disclaimers.
We stay vague—
not to deceive,
but to avoid being wrong
in public.
But honesty doesn’t always arrive
fully formed.
Sometimes it needs room
to be incomplete,
revisable,
human.
And when fear closes that space,
silence can start to feel
more responsible
than truth.
Watch more videos like this on Sindy's official website. gothgirlsindy.com/
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