More Moleskine pages (older ones)

I have a backlog of over 36 completed Moleskine sketchbooks thus far, and they are the only part of my work that is not for sale. Too much time , blood, sweat..blah blah goes into them and it makes it impossible to put a price on them. I do enjoy looking through them now and again, and I am always surprised by how completely I forget what I've done. It's as if they were someone Else's work and words. I did say I'd post some older pages and this is what this  is about.

Certain events in my life messed with my head and forced me to question the fundamentals of good and evil, right and wrong. It also turned me away from rigid inflexible dogma that allows people to set themselves up as judge and jury. To decide who lives and who dies and why.

This depicts some complex feelings about being a girl child in a place that favoured little princes. Of having to steal enough of the spotlight to see me through. Apparently the lack of a penis rendered me unworthy. Funny that!

These images touch on some very deep emotional subjects about my life. There are complex back-stories to each of them. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

The Saatchi Online Showdown

http://www.saatchionline.com/showdown/match/showdown/4/artist/49552/art/1021972
 Please vote for my entry entitled 'entropy'. The voting closes on February 23rd 2011 so there is still time.

Thank you in advance, if you don't vote I promise not to hold it against you but what have you got to lose?

Moleskine drawing for planned doll.

This is my drawing for my current work in progress. I bought a pattern from Ebay for premature babies staring from 12 weeks gestation right up to 28 weeks. i am making an old fashioned hand made sanitary towel complete with pins as a bed for the tiny little 'would have been' life. It is intended as a loving commemoration of every baby that couldn't fulfill his or her potential for whatever reason.

Moleskine Pages.

A couple more pages bringing me almost up to date. I intend to start a new doll project next so the Moleskines may slow down a bit. I could be writing this in ancient Sanskrit to see if anyone is reading these posts, haha!

An occasional Dose of Culture. Charlotte Salomon

Charlotte Salomon is an artist I admire greatly, on a personal as well as on an artistic level. Salomon was a young artist from a cultured family that had the misfortune of living in Hitler's Germany. For her own safety, Charlotte was sent to live with her grandparents in Nice, where she began her opus of 769 paintings that encapsulated her short life. Her detailed paintings told her tragic story with humour and wit, the detail becoming more frantic as the net tightened. She fell in love and married Alexander Nagler. When she was 5 months pregnant, the couple were taken to Auschwitz where they were executed.

Charlotte entitled her work; 'Life or Theatre. a Singspiel'. She entrusted the work to a family friend asking him to safeguard it as 'it was her life'. Music was an integral part of the work, as she threaded a soundtrack into it's fabric that included Nazi marching songs, Schubert's Lieder and Mozart.

There have been several major exhibitions of Salomon's work, and a book is also available, yet she remains virtually unknown. The main reason for this is that none of her work is available on the open market.

There is a lot of information about Charlotte on the Internet and I urge you to read more about her if her work moves you. Any comments on my posts would be appreciated; opinions, questions or just observations would all be welcome.

Slideshow of my Moleskine pages

Moleskine pages: 2007-2009

I am posting some pages from my older Moleskines. my first one was started in 2003 while I was at the Royal College of art. I am struck by how different my work looks although that may not be apparent to everyone. The themes haven't changed much: life, death and in between!