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Appendix A - Order & Chaos: There's No Place Like Now (Them)

My Grandad will often let himself in early on a weekday morning. He brings bread, the second bakery on Batman Avenue gives him plenty for the possums. It took me a long time to accept the possum bread as ok. It’s a gift. But it did initially remind me of when the cat brought us dead birds. Anyway, it’s ok for toast.

The new German supermarket is opposite and up a bit from Batman Ave. We started getting some extras with the bread. Baked beans, tinned minestrone, alarm clocks, LED torches, and a pretty decent frozen strudel....

I was a bit excited when he bought himself a compact digital. I was truly surprised however when I realised he wouldn’t anytime soon comprehend the concept of menus, folders, tabs. How do you explain something so natural to someone who finds it equally foreign?

Order & Chaos: Another Brick in the Dirt

Order & Chaos: Another Brick in the Dirt, originally uploaded by jeqn.

Final Print - Review 6, 2008

70x60cm

Order & Chaos: There's No Place Like Now (Us)

Order & Chaos: There's No Place Like Now (Us), originally uploaded by jeqn.

Final Print - Review 6, 2008

70x60cm

Review 6, 2008. Artists Statement

Order & Chaos: Catching Up With The Past, is a symbolic exploration into the confusion of the misunderstood. Chaos being the state that precedes understanding, the satisfaction that results in the emergence of order, the goal. The investigation and construction is the process.


The photographic prints presented in this review exploit dichotomies that result from order and chaos. The emergence of dualities is assisted by the juxtaposition of two images, radically different in subject matter. For me, one is a reflection on Cambodian infrastructure and development, the other, a personal reconciliation with family, home, upbringing. Environmental/psychological, intellectual/emotional and physical/metaphorical spaces.

Dualities are not restricted to subject matter. The most fundamental forms present echo each others’ concerns; tone and colour, positive and negative space, movement and stasis, shape, and medium.


“The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.” Andre Kertesz.

The process, specifically becoming more familiar with production techniques and outcomes, reiterated to me that there is no absolute. One cannot exist without the other. Order and chaos are not only relative, they are opposing concepts on the same ever-expanding scale. Chaos is an absence of awareness of the underlying structure, form, and evidence of the inherent order present in everything.

Bibliography.

the living room

the living room, originally uploaded by jeqn.

It's a pretty rough stitch but just wanted to experiment a bit with it... and show this space in context.

again with the deer...

_MG_1186-20-10-2008-web, originally uploaded by jeqn.

just trying something different out... yea or nae?

been busy learning some photoshop :)