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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.
An open notebook.
I used the notebook as a way to represent self reflection through writing or drawing. I think this is a conceptual shot due to the angle and mood created in this photo.
A woman with curly hair wears a red shirt and appears deep in thought while resting her head on her hand. She is sitting at a wooden table in a warm, inviting setting.
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To: Anyone who follows my project throughout the year ---
When you see me revert to texture, it means I'm stuck. This is my safe zone, where I am most comfortable. It is also where inspiration goes to die.
To: Me ---
When you revert to texture, it means you're stuck. Knock it off!! Get outside of your comfort zone and go make some mistakes.
Is pessimism easier to maintain than optimism?
In this short, reflective monologue, Sindy explores why optimism can feel harder to sustain in an uncertain world. While pessimism protects itself, optimism requires renewal, participation, and the willingness to stay engaged with a future that isn’t guaranteed.
A calm, non-utopian reflection on hope, meaning, and the emotional work of looking forward.
SCRIPT:
Pessimism has momentum.
It protects itself.
If things go wrong, it was right.
If things go right, it stays cautious.
Optimism is different.
It has to be renewed.
Reconsidered.
Chosen again after disappointment.
It doesn’t ignore risk—
it just refuses to let risk
be the only story.
And that makes optimism fragile.
Not naive,
but exposed.
It requires memory—
remembering that progress has happened before,
even when it’s slow,
uneven,
or easy to miss.
Maybe pessimism feels easier
because it asks less of us.
And optimism feels harder
not because it’s unrealistic—
but because it requires
continued participation
in a future
that hasn’t proven itself yet.
#sindy #optimism #hope #FutureThinking #modernlife #selfreflection #humanexperience #quietthoughts #spokenword #introspection #aigenerated #MadeWithAI
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
Photo captured along the beach at Dry Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.