A time-lapse shot of my laptop running its screensaver. Though shot on film, I used a digital camera to get the aperture / and timing settings right before committing a film shot.

The same setup, but with a chest xray hung between the camera and the regulator. It would be interesting to shoot with backlighting behind the whole thing.

This is the regulator for my airbrush. I like the shadow was set so that it had this creepyness, it lurks there behind the regulator itself.

Another shot of the reservoir gatehouse. Also burned to darken the sky down.

In theory, it’s bad to have the edges (or any part) of the image left paper-white. At least, that’s what my photography teachers said.

One of the gatehouses for Petersham water reservoir. I love the fact that old-timey utilitarian public infrastructure has such decorative architectural details.

This pic was shot on film, and hand printed. The sky was originally blown out and white, so a bit of hand burning was required (exposing the area to be burned for longer, so it darkens).

The Petersham water reservoir. It looms over the suburb like a fighting machine from War Of The Worlds. There’s something very physical about the grainyness of black & white film, and it kindof has this interesting flatness because of the highish depth of field.

I’d like to empty it out and convert it into a house. The tank itself is over three stories tall.

This is a first year college piece modelled from a lifemodel.

It is constructed of steel and ethernet cable in continuous lengths from foot to foot.

Dimensions h,w,d: 100, 55, 20cm

This is a small piece while I experiment with new styles. It’s graphite pencil and watercolour pencil.

My sketchbook. An early WordPress theme attempt, based on categorising character sketches from a number of sketchbooks.

The best part of it is the header graphic, which I’m still a huge fan of today.

Believe it or not, this is a still life sketch. The brief for this piece was to completely cover a large sheet of paper in very small marks to create a background texture field. I went and scrawled over the whole thing in a faux asian syle script, which wasn’t strictly the idea, but hey, I liked doing it.

From there we were drawing a selection of pacific islander art, statues etc, but just taking a narrow angle section of the arrangement. It was all going ok, but while the left side was working out really well, the middle to right was a bit empty and meh. The teacher suggested covering it, and so with giddy abandon, I obliterated a huge amount of work with that big black rectangle. The theory behind this, as far as I can see, is that the remaining areas are made all the more precious by the wanton destruction of the work in the covered section.