Making a Personal Rhizome: Application, Exhibition, and Dreams

This dissertation is my articulation of the on-going dialogue between the art world and my own creativity. I achieve this by describing my digital project called Perceptions where in association with Kenneth Yuen, I designed a virtual gallery. The fundamental principle of this virtual gallery is a place where insider or outsider artists can hone their creative concepts, ideas, perceptions, feelings, aspirations, and tools. In this paper, I analyse some of the entries I have made to this virtual gallery. As a recognized Sydney artist I unfold my practice in an Exhibition held in the Ray Hughes gallery of Surrey Hills. I exhibited paintings in the innovative media of cast resin through linen, glass crystal, and welded steel. I analyse a selection of a piece exhibited in this commercial show. The study also includes a section of my personal dreams. I analyse and interpret the interaction between my conscious life as an artist and my unconscious personal material as a female sculptor, painter, and author of my practice. My objective has been to flesh out the vesicular and multifaceted layers of artistic expression that are generated through my work. To explain in words, the hidden world of the constructed meaning of the un-escaped personal dynamic of my art making. This exercise has implicated the articulation of personal disclosures and explicit interpretations of my artworks and dreams. The virtual gallery Perceptions, the commercial exhibition Pushing Up Daisies, and my recorded dreams together construct my contribution to the rhizome that consists between, within and beyond the visible world of art practice.