John Roome

When you do a drawing like this you might begin to question your own sanity. It's a slow process. Satisfies the masochist in me.

This drawing is growing slowly. Pixel by hand drawn pixel!

I am still working on this Lung project. This pencil drawing is taking a long time but it has an interesting quality. I liked Don Fitzpatrick's comments on how I "slow down the digital". This is such a good descritpion of this drawing. A slowed down digital hand made drawing which is somewhere inbetween the two.

No blog posts for far too long. Means I have been busy, so it is not a bad thing. This week was mainly taken up by our Faculty of Arts and Design Conference. Conferences are always time consuming and also something of a mixed bag. this one had its ups and downs, but considering it was the first one of its kind, it was pretty good. Meeting Donal Fitspatrick the keynote speaker from Curtin U. in Australia was inspiring and he also gave us lots of valuable feed-back. Sharing ideas with colleagues, listening to their research ideas and presenting my own was all really good. So lets hope this is not the last, but the first of many .

This has been another busy week. No time for blogging! Teaching drawing to a somewhat resistant bunch of students is not easy. But wow! Something happened this week. I introduced them to animation and they just took off! Like a different group! The work they did was phenomenal! Whew!

If you missed Vaughn Sadie's exhibition at Bank Gallery, you can still see it. But if you missed Dean Henning,s sound piece last Thursday, then I feel sorry for you. It was a sublime experience. he is a master at using found sound to create music that touched me profoundly. Sitting in amongst Vaughn's light installation, listening, just listening....

We live with violence all around us and I know so many people who have been victims of all types of violence. Today I almost became one more. It is not the same as when it happens to some one else. You just can never know what it really feels like till you experience it. I manged to get away unhurt by the drunken thugs who tried to mug me, but it left me shaken. What worries me most it that it brought out the violent side in me. Which I am sure everyone has. Buy a gun, get a pepperspray etc etc I started thinking. Strike back!! ....What am I thinking? Why do we have to live like this?