“All this longing for beauty is a longing to be in the presence of God.” —Joel Pelsue

Got this for a dollar at an op shop yesterday. It's a single-lot catalogue for a 2017 auction in which the work sold for NZ$540,500. I'll never be able to afford a McCahon, but I have a growing collection of reproductions. By far, my favourite artist.

I like fluoro spray paint on the footpath. Looks cool.

I've reached a big milestone with this project: the AI analysis. I'm excited about the output so far, and I think it will be very helpful in me moving forward as an artist. I'll write more about this soon.

Wow. Great timing, Google. (See my previous post.)

Happy Blogger Day!

I started my first blog, on Blogger, about 19 years ago. It was a private blog for my extended family about the birth of my son. I don't think I maintained it for long, but it was the start of a new form of creative expression for me. Since then,...

“Why, as Christians, should we be content to see Christ only where we expect to see him? Perhaps we should follow the lead of the Gospels themselves and look for him where we least expect him to be, even in the contemporary art world.” —Daniel A. Siedell, God in the...

I may use AI to support my personal creative work (for example, in this project), but I will never use it in the actual making of it. I got into writing and painting because I wanted to use my head and my heart and my hands, not stand back and...

Lisa Call on blogging

I periodically relisten to this 2020 podcast interview with Lisa Call, a contemporary textile artist living in New Zealand. I love Lisa's work (I've met her and seen it in person at an art fair), and I find it inspiring that she continues to blog as an artist, even as...