Posts by Hebe
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Just been down to the Heathcote by ours to check high tide. The water is still an evil murk with treacherous currents, but the good news is it's not over the edge today. The banks around here are well scoured out.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to David Hood,
From August 2009
Amazing. is that gorse in flower?
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I’m a bit worried about him being able to have pets though.
Beloved suggests a pitbull with compliance issues would be an appropriate canine companion.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Peter Alsop,
I look forward to it.
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Lilith, I should have stopped as I passed the bulls and piano most days they were in town, but your photographs make up some for that. I keep going back to them.
I wish the council had done something inspiring and bought the sculptures for the city. -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
Upstairs at the Ng Gallery
Great photos Lilith.
And there enjoying the music, sitting in the background as always is Leonard, quietly one of New Zealand's best photographers ever. His b/w work is incredible. I'm happy to see him still here.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'm not saying anyone else should share my view. The fact that the posters have been out there for a long time does not make it right, or wrong. They are works of art in one sense, and I absolutely defend the authors' right to put them in their book, but they are also a product of a time of less cultural sensitivity, shall we way, than the present. So recording advertisements from 50 ,60 years ago in a book is quite different to reproducing a chief's image without context to hang on any old wall. It is not something I would want to do; other people feel differently, and I see no moral absolute here.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Lilith __,
But surely this is also a portrait of an unknown woman, and only generic because un-named?
My thinking on this one: she looks like an ideal rather than a person (very well could be incorrect of course).
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
New Sumner scenic spot?
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Peter Alsop,
I must elaborate: the chiefs and their heads, portraits, images of taonga all are off my list of poster-appropriate. The generic Maori maiden is rather different -- to me it is Kiwiana, but question is where the line is crossed, and that precise positioning depends upon the intent of the artist/producer and upon where one sits on the cultural mores spectrum.
Which is all not to denigrate your book -- it looks alluring -- but to give another way of thinking about some areas of the subject matter.