No Ordinary Bliss

I have a collection of pavement images collected over the years, while walking. This one from walks last year on the way to work, Annerley to George Street. 

Brisbane 2016. 2017. Sue George. Digital photograph. 20 x 29 cm

They celebrate the quiet, unexpected joys of the urban walk.  Hemingway's  'intoxicating romance of the unusual' enjoyed in the everyday.

For this year's exhibition I'm digging into the pavement archive. Painting, re-imagining and re-photographing pavement shots to accentuate the cracks and the signs of life in the concrete landscape.

Havana 2017. 2017. Sue George. Photograph of painted print.. 20 x 29 cm

Photos of photos

Playing with photos of photos, altered and re-imagined as they are re-photographed. I'm using an extensive archive of pavement images from around the world. This one from Rome 2016.

Yucatan

Limo cut inspired by the birds here at Hacienda Uxmal. Ready to print at the Graphic Bakery tomorrow. 

Ethical consumption

Thinking about trickle down economics and my own unethical consumption.

 

Art as protest

I'm responding to the confronting ethical questions which you can't avoid when you live in the Caymans. The gaping chasm between the haves and the have nots. The cult of excess. Pollution and waste but also the spending choices. Overconsumption but also thoughtless consumption.

Am reminded of the Supertramp album, Crisis? What crisis?

Greetings from the Caymans

2017

Sue George

digital photograph

Pavement as pedestrian fracture

Playing with collage and photographs of photographs. Here using my photos of pavement cracks (Cayman Island, but universal) and photographing again, over found images (magazines, found photos, postcards).

Yes. It really looks like this.

This is popular souvenir slogan here, used on everything from tote bags to fridge magnets.

It provided a perfect juxtaposition for images of the plastic waste problem. It's inadvisable, I think, to comment on places and situations with which you are unfamiliar. Is it my place to simplify a complex issue as a postcard comment. Perhaps a generic image, taking away the Cayman Islands tag, would be more acceptable.