(Excerpt from Origin of Image website)

It’s a tough project to design something for ‘family’. Our Soula needed a website for her artwork, can you hear the alarm bells? So we have art and design, which steers it? Is it design first, then the art, or just art or just design… hang on, let’s just ask Soula how she wants her site to look…

As if that’s going to work, that’s the whole problem, Soula wants her yellow cupcake and to eat it too! In fact she laps up both personalities claiming that she can’t choose between them, and in fact needs both and has incorporated both in her life all the time!!!

So, let’s ask Theo. He’s good at this, he has those account managing qualities. Surely he can micro manage this. “How about we outsource it?” Well thanks for that Theo, a great idea. I see where that’s coming from. “You’re too close to it, be the bigger person, hand it over…”

Eventually we got there. Care to comment? Please do, via the OoI facebook page or on Soula’s website.

Ecriture Infinie is an art project by Bili Bidjocka:
www.ecritureinfinie.org

My Moleskine Lifelong Friends by Soula

Well I can’t put the Infinite Writing information better myself. All I’m going to do is let you all know that I’ve been included in this fabulous project and you can be too. Or you can simply enjoy reading about it and learn where writing stands today (and at the very least hit this link and like my image!).

The following is text from the ecritureinfinie website:

A rite of passage.
Ecriture Infinie / Infinite Writing is the celebration of a 3500 year old invention: handwriting. For generations, men and women have put pen to paper to spread revolutionary ideas, request payments, run inner monologues, declare their love, make up stories, send death threats. What now? (more…)

(As seen on ooi.com.au)

We’ve found it! Affirmations for creatives. As if any designer is going to fall for flowery, self indulgent thoughts that are purely directed to our confidence and feed the ego! Pff!. We are naturally talented in that way, ego is very healthy thanks. What we require is STIMULATION, stir up that left side of the brain and get us churning towards the next big idea.

Open manifesto, go on and stimulate us!

There just isn’t.

Chronic pain is a waste of life’s precious time, its a huge hold up. But if you have to deal with it then you have to find a way to cope through the awful journey and survive it.  Before my precious implant (Professor Teddy I love you!!), I couldn’t move much without pain, everything hurt and it hurt all the time. And yet, my gorgeous friends and family kept telling me ‘but you look so good for someone who’s in pain all day!’ (Uum… thanks??)

When a few, rare, blissful* days came I painted what it felt like to look ‘so good’ but be unable to move freely, incapacitated, limited, just simply ‘around’ and watching life go by: (more…)

Finally on…

Not that I’m into blabbing about my daily activities nor extensively into social networking online but Facebook, as it turns out, is another medium of expression for me. Another place to show another part of the Soula character. One a bit more personal but still feeding the all important creative side of characterisation. It’s a venue where I can reach a different group of people, perhaps who wouldn’t have visited my sites or ever found them and as it worked out, its also a place to introduce this group to a Soula they might not know (goes for me too!) . (more…)

(For special people only)

The way I know and practice it is that fine art is created by hand one piece at a time. So why give out a business card that’s been run on a macheeeeeeeeen! (aargh!) not to mention a few hundred times like a photocopy and yells: ‘I’m mass produced because there’s no time and its cheaper to do it this way’! Oh too sad, couldn’t do that to my ‘art’ representative could I?

Two of three kinds of cards. Hard ground etching with embossed 'soula' & stamped details

(more…)

You just never know when you’re going to have to document something… and when you might not be able to get to your journal. But the damn phone is always around and for once I was grateful. Times like these (in hospital and out of action*) you must draw a self portrait!!!

2nd admission. For implant of permanent peripheral stimulation device

1st admission. For trial of peripheral stimulation device

*Insurance snoops take note.