News RSS
71. Freya’s Hens
My background. My heritage is Viking! Freya's hens, while not a prominent narrative in many traditional mythologies or texts, can be explored through an ecofeminist lens. For the purposes of this analysis, we'll consider a hypothetical narrative where Freya, the Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and war, possesses hens that play a significant role in her life or in the mythology. 1. The Interconnectedness of Women and Nature: Ecofeminism posits a connection between the oppression of women and the degradation of nature. In the narrative of Freya's hens, the hens can be symbolic of women — both are often...
60. Backgrounds - Water
To create the illusion of stars, and depth it would appear that water; light reflections on Dark water, offer the best solution in alignment with the Mandala - a signature of my art practice, as well as offering the alignment to my art theory discussion; cycles of time, governed by the moon/tides. I explored different options for backgrounds and imagery for behind the sisters. Dark Water mandalas have been th most successful to dat. I now need to focus on creating a series of new photographic works to place behind the portraits And FAST!
65. An excursion through Photoshop w Misi
In order to rule it out it was important to entertain the idea of digital manipulation of the photos. However, after going through the process with find and business partner Melissa Sharplin, I recognised that not only was this not in alignment with my traditional photographic background, of designing the composition, the lighting and the components, but Also, it is not in alignment with the ecofeminist understanding of technological intervention over women. Nonetheless the process was an important learning exercise, and Misi though me lots of things I did not know in photoshop that will be helpful for future artistic Anneke...
Tags
- All
- 01. The Pleiadean adventure began...
- 02. Pleiadean Nights
- 03. A Master's investigation after dark time
- 04. Time warp - contributive past works
- 05. Study - Laying the foundations
- 06. The Research Prop - Critique 1
- 07. End of semester 1 - Essay - Heterotopia
- 08. The Mandala
- 09. Pleiades - Matariki - The ancient story
- 10. Anti - Gravity
- 11. The Pleiadean Prophecy
- 12. Crystal grids - Process
- 13. Crystals as sculptural elements
- 14. The 12
- 15. A Lifetime of Placements
- 16. Taylors from Above - Godley Heads
- 17. Capturing Taylor's Mistake
- 18. The Feathers - Night test shoot - Taylor's Mistake
- 19. The Feather Test Shoot Mandala's
- 20. Taylors Sunset
- 21. Visual Narratives - Influences on my imagery
- 22. The Heptagram - Seven Pointed Star. Part 2
- 23. The Pleiades - Matariki
- 24. Research Project: “As Above So Below”
- 25. The Portals - an introduction
- 26. Pacific Stories - Matariki 2022
- 27. Matariki 2022
- 28. The Heptagram - Seven Pointed Star. Part 1
- 29. Masters 2023 - The final year & Patronage Programme
- 30. Anneke Art - 2023 projects -EDM
- 31. The Beach Structures
- 32. Maps
- 33. The Bird People
- 34. The departure from land based sculptures
- 35. Return to the Mandala
- 36. The Original Chakra Story - The Seven Portraits
- 37. Crystals Outdoors - an investigation
- 38. The Taylors Mistake Temple
- 39. The Eclipse - The Maungati / Korimako Temple
- 40. Te Kohanga - Castle Hill Temple
- 41. Crystal Grid Layouts
- 42. The Crystal Marquette
- 43. NFTs
- 44. Departure from Sculptures & a move towards Portraits
- 45. Native American Pleiades story
- 46. The 3 portal openings - Summary
- 47. Arthurai - Seven Cows of Ancient Egypt
- 48. Krittika - Seven Wives of the Seven Rishis
- 49. Matariki - Common Eco Feminist narratives from the Pacific
- 50. The Seven Sisters of the Dreamtime
- 51. Subaru - Japan
- 52. Atlas & Pleione - & The 7 Sisters
- 53. Pacific Sisters - Artist Influence
- 55. Christine Webster - Artist Influence
- 56. Artistic Influence - DUNE - Sisterhod
- 57. AI - The Collage Creator of the Now
- 58. The First Portrait Shoot
- 59. The Second Photoshoot
- 60. Backgrounds - Floral
- 62. Discarding NFT's
- 63. The Extent of the Backgrounds
- 64. The final photoshoot
- 65. An excursion through Photoshop w Misi
- 66. Final Flourishes - Background tests
- 67. Gill Gatfield - Artist Influence
- 68. Olafur Eliasson
- 69. The final resolutions - Water 1
- 70. The final resolutions - Water 2
- 71. Freya’s Hens
- 72. Final Critique - Handout
- 73. Susan Sage
- 74. Melissa Sharplin
- 75. Jess Lynch
- 76. Asti Renaut
- 77. Teorangi Munro
- 78. Devi Ānanda
- 79. Myself - Anneke
- 80. The Layouts
- Dialogue and Presentation