Exhibiting Taste of a Peculiar Type

Portrait of the Artist...

G'day you three,

Now, although the title may seem to reference the first section of today's rant it does so only obliquely and really is addressing some recent political machinations. I suppose the key link to the title in both sections is appropriateness. 

 Shane's been showing off again and unusually for him, with a painting as well as a photograph and a sculpture. All of the works are titled "I do Like to be Besides the Seaside...:" Nos 1, 2, and 3

 The title was originally suggested to the arts space when exhibition ideas had been sought and the offering was returned as, "A Day at the Beach"  (?)  with the admonition that their version would allow more imaginative responses. 

To me it's banal, prosaic and  dully unimaginative.

No 1, Elwood

Photographed early one morning way, way back

No 3, Point Impossible, Torquay

A re-worked older piece that came up pretty well and may deserve a new mold as the original was in pretty poor nick and has been binned.

No-one asked. well, one knew,  but there is a connecting theme to the titles but again there has been no response.

"Elwood" is a gentle work, very peaceful and subdued and although I like  Rita Wingard's "Crashing Waves" and Lili Eggleston's "Ebb and Flow in the Shallows" expressionistic verve on either side of it,  they  absolutely swamp it... appropriate hanging, a definite NO!

Appropriate photograph to detail artworks ? Not really but done only  to illustrate a point. This sort of oblique sidelong view is seen all too often online for galleries of various sorts particularly when there is glass involved in a painting or drawing. It really sends  multiple of wrong messages. So on that point, I present a couple of nice things ... without glass.

Leann Brown, Four Rock pool themes  very attractive Acrylic Resin and wood pieces.

And finishing with a whimsical bit of fun, 

Tin Denton's  "In at the Deep End," 

Mixed media.

A peculiar taste...

After all the cynical bleating over the stage 3 tax cuts but with most of the public supporting Labor's changes, the ex Ruling Rabble-Hellsong-IPA cabal have been forced to change focus and are now reading from the Prue McSween nasty-cask by berating not only the PM but his new fiancée for having the temerity to announce their intended marriage. 

 Jeering Jennett another Ruling Rabble toy-boy on the emasculated ABC asked another Ruling Rabble non-entity , F*****t, Fletcher "..whether he thought Albo's marriage was going to distract him from his prime ministership?" I mean, really ?... Is this is the rank level of your journalism?

It's not only the leftover's stale-male  rabble but the women also who are constantly vile of speech and thought but are supported by so-called journalists like Annabel Crabbe who obviously spends far too much time in Hissy-Fits Sale's orbit, who penned a piece insulting the fiancée by listing her "achievements" and then being negative about Albanese's previous marriage. It was putrid stuff from what was, once a fine writer and commentator. And another, Maley of the SMH headlines her column with, "Albo's "recruited" a wife! " These scribes are a disgrace!

But then all these right-wing trolls have to deflect from the scandal of Potato-Head's quite probably, criminal mismanagement of asylum seeker monies which has been judicially reported on but which all of the media are studiously avoiding.  The Specious One Speers on what is now a Ruling Rabble love-fest with a failing "Insiders" ( more than halved the audience so far in his tenure) spent 18 minutes detailing Labor's supposed failure because 18 boat people arrived in WA but a trifle over one minute on Potato-Head's fiscal perfidy. One!

So too with Barnyard Joyce's latest inanity. All the excuses in the world are flying from the mouths, pens and other orifices of scribes supporting Barnyard who was filmed on the ground ranting into his phone after falling off a planter box in Canberra's main drag late at night. Drunk as a Skunk , Pissed as a Fart, absolutely hammered... but not out for the count in their books ... he could still be deputy PM one day. 

As Phillip Adams cutely commented, "He was always noted as a good retail politician ... I just didn't know it was for Dan Murphy's!" And the current deputy leader of the Nats? She was forced to admit after some wayward thought and speech at a parliamentary enquiry that she'd imbibed a couple of glasses of wine before the meeting. 

That our opposition decision makers are moral and ethical vacuums seems of no concern to The Ugly American's  media minions but it's ok to attack the PM's engagement? 

It's hard to fathom, beyond the politics of envy, to make everything a ploy to make all  about a good government seem bad. Play everything as a negative and mis-report facts, carry stories slanted a particular way, use selective language and generally lambaste good work.

 It certainly is beyond time that a Royal Commission in to the whole media is long overdue!

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane