Archive for August, 2007

bad art habit

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

I have come to the conclusion that I have a bad art habit. Every time I get a bit of capital I immediately run out and spend it all on my art work. Most recently, a 300 litre freezer for my lambs tails. Like other junkies I have known this habit consumes all my time [...]

lambs tail collagen

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

I am continuing with my investigation of collagen extracted from animal tails that are otherwise designated ‘waste’. I started with the rat tails at SymbioticA in 2006. (See here). Last week I went out to a sheep farm while they were docking the lambs tails. The farmer has saved 200 for me from the previous [...]

the black breath

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I was playing with some of the connectors I have bought to construct my ‘breath dress’ with late last night and, as you do, I stuck them up my nose. They looked quite funny – like two breathing tusks sticking out of my nostrils. Then I thought that maybe they might be some kind of [...]