creative exchange

picture play

The Big Blue Ball project is extended via a continuing interchange of ideas through visual dialogue between the artist and researcher, Donna Wright, and project members. Making use hand-made picture making techniques, creative reflections of participants' interpretations are recorded on miniatures; small, magnetic-backed, wooden blocks, 100 x 100mm in size. The blocks are hand-painted and protected by a hard, clear lacquer. They fit neatly in the palm of a person's hand, are accessible and easy to handle. These hand-painted pictures act as memory units providing a collection of semiotic building blocks that can be renegotiated by the viewer. 200 of these miniature ‘imagetexts' have been produced and are made publicly available at various exhibiting sites; spectators can continue the communication process by moving the blocks around on the table and up the wall, reflexively constructing new ideas and new meanings.

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paintings
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exhibitions

NEXT Gallery Southern Cross University Australia
May 2007

Paris - AUP American University in Paris
5th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
July 2007