sydney art

What does a Hyena,

Unicorns,

Giants,

Strangers,

Martians,

The Splice girls,

and Crash-Test Dummies

have in common?

EUGENICS!

Because they are all well-bred 😉

Eugenics is a Greek word which roughly translates as “Well bred”. Eu = good, genes = born.

“The first person to use photography for the purpose of publicizing and promoting eugenics was Charles Darwin’s half cousin Francis Galton (1822-1911). The founder of modern eugenics movement, Galton defined eugenics as ‘the science of improving stock, which is by means confined to judicious matings, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognisance of all influences that tend in however remote degree to give the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing…” (Quoted from www.sciencedirect.com)

I am looking forward to present my latest body of work to you this time next month with gallery .MContemporary in Sydney, Australia.

Watch this space!

In the meantime here is a recent studio selfie just to give you an idea of the scale of my work 😉

Did you know:

“The first photographic portrait of a human was taken in 1893 – it was selfies. A little less than two centuries later, 93 million selfies are taken every day by Android users alone. Researchers recently identified a condition defined by an urge to take selfies and upload them to social media at least 6 times a day. They named it ‘Chronic Selfitis’.”

“Selfies can make us feel present at the expense of being present.” -both quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Wishing you a wonderful day, until next time. x

Just before the year was over a great joy was announced; there would be a family meeting, a joyous reunion! When the time came for this anticipated gathering the woods were abuzz as the nice friendly giant proudly walked into the forest greeted merrily by the good fairies and ecstatic family pet. The forest Faye entertained their kin by playing with fire as they trapezed through the night sky; so many came and told them that the guests enjoyed watching you. Sadly, the nuclear family was alienated after their controversial rendition of ‘what’s love got to do with it?’. Thank you for coming said the wicked giants as the evening drawn to a close and the overwhelming sense of ‘you can’t choose your family’ was left hanging in the air. Walking out of the woods the artificial family just chuckled to themselves remembering that it’s all relative. The end. -Linda Fletcher

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfa1VUhqn3X/

You can check out the link above if you want to see me reading Linda’s version on Instagram. (unfortunately WordPress doensn’t allow me to embed the video, and my copy doesn’t want to upload here, but…

below is the video I uploaded reading the one I wrote 😉

Thank you Linda for participating in making up a story using the titles of the works for my upcoming exhibition at MContemporary gallery in Sydney. Only 21 days to go!!