Fall Into My Blue

“There is a visual dissonance in this piece; amongst the pandemonium lies quiet order.”

ArtEmma QiDecember 23, 2024issue 18

Observation in Memory

“I’m never aware of the full picture, only vague figures, shapes, and colours remain. Countless moments pass by me, blurring and distorting themselves from realistic form.”

ArtJason OcampoDecember 18, 2024photography, dissasociation, love

Play the Game

“With each card played, the hands dealt are stained with blood.”

ArtBipasha ChakrabortyDecember 18, 2024politics, class, australia

Big bird blog (blog)

“With our fingers progressively morphing into letter keys with every digital exchange encountered, there is also an opportunity and a drive to ‘opt out’, play, and discover new ways of approaching traditional formal constructs of design.”

ArtLauren MaccollDecember 17, 2024art, design, adobe

“You're telling me a shrimp shot this 3-pointer?” and “I just want to be part of your symphony”

“I chose to replicate AI generated images because I wanted a translation of the human spirit to crack through the endless multitudes of soulless images online in the most ridiculous way possible.”

ArtFinley AndersonDecember 12, 2024AI, AI generated art, pixel art, human behaviour

Magritte - Art Gallery of New South Wales

Both eerie and peaceful, the final room is shrouded in a velvety green amongst which his final paintings whisper rumours of Magritte's transformation. At this point, one cannot help but think back to the self-portrait that greeted them, now at odds with the viscerality of The happy donor and Man and the forest.

Isaac Julien's 'Once Again...(Statues Never Die)'

As soon as you enter the space, you find that the dialectic of light and darkness is already at play. Then begins the piano, and notes that echo cavernously, consuming the space. In a haunting, projecting boom, Alice Smith begins vocalizing the words, “once again…”

Reviews, ArtAkshaara AgarwalOctober 4, 2024art gallery, art, MCA

Lace Monster

“I reckon if I picked flowers the star power sucked from the ground like a naughty talisman — maybe the PH of the soil is altered by the amount of celebritydom decomposing, would my hydrangeas blush prudent pink?”

ArtEstelle VigourouxOctober 1, 2024internet, love, self-love

red-white-blue bag — 红白蓝袋子

“The plastic woven red-white-blue bag (红白蓝袋子) has become symbolic of resilience and hardship due to its utilitarian durability and working-class associations in Southern China, Hong Kong, and in countries like Ghana and Nigeria.”

ArtBonnie HuangOctober 1, 2024photography, film photography, china, class

10 PPI Mulch

“Yet when the pixel becomes distinct, and elementary, it distorts the image, breaking it down to its most rudimentary composition of shapes and colors.”

ArtAshray KumarSeptember 23, 2024art, digital cultures, digicam