Van Gogh's painting (one of my favourites) Starry Night (De Sterrennacht) has been compared to an astronomical photograph of a star named V838 Monocerotis, taken by the Hubble in 2004. I'm not sure which I prefer anymore <3

the glint of the thousand eyes (the sea that never love me)

And I see the glint of the thousand eyes
from the sea that never loved me.
And on those waves that washed that wreck
(From crusted creases to smoother silver)
I rode the beckoning waves.

(Up and down
Up and down
From here to there
and back again)

And I see the glint of a thousand eyes
from the sea that never loved me.
And on those waves that wash this wreck
(from aged soul to youthful vigour)
I stared back at a thousand eyes.

And I see the glint of a thousand years.
To the sea that couldn’t grant me,
fell the stars from the heavens to sea.
On the fallen stars; I wished one day
that the sea would ever love me.

by Jonny

Vertical light - Horizontal darkness

Top: Forgotten Angle - Ancient 200 x 100 cm - this one really spoke to me. It made me catch my breath with sadness. Unforgiving burnt oranges and deep blues.

Below: Invisible Filter - Illusion 112 x 284 cm - conversely, this lit up the room, as its impressive scale dominated one wall at the end of the gallery. It glowed and radiated freshness and joy.


The Falle Fine Art Gallery, Jersey recently hosted an exhibition of the British Post-war Abstract painter Paul John Kilshaw.

my opinion.
Following the celebration of perspective in traditional realism of the >16th century, Modernism rejected perspective and progressed to flatten images into basic compositions across two dimensions, for example in the work of Mondrian's De Stijl and Matisse's abstracts and collage. Gaining experience from the post-war anxiety and cultural liberation of American Abstract Expressionism and British Expressionists such as Bacon, British abstract painters began to regain a more painterly fashion in order to eradicate the restrictions of pretentiously clinical avant-garde of the early 20th century.

And now, as a new dawn of British Abstraction draws, perspective is making an unexpected return to our anarchist abstract. Seen in Kilshaw's work, the abstract curves of Picasso and Hepworth slide past one another like transparent filters - creating a new dimension that can be reached into. Explored. This is new abstract. Where Classicism and Modernism collide. Juxtaposing rigidity with weightlessness; expressive marks with solid objectivity. Nothing, and everything, makes sense. Every element of Kilshaw's work is informed, and refined. This is the true British Abstract of the Postmodern age.

Holga

Above: a colour exposure from a plastic camera
Below: a double exposure using a Holga plastic camera
images from nonphotography.com

I'm in love with these ghostly retro images created with Holga plastic cameras (so called due to each camera being made almost entirely from plastic, including the lenses).

These cheap, retro cameras allow accidental light leaks and vignetting (darkening around edges) which give the photos a unique finish. I am tempted to buy myself one of these gems and get snapping, but I am going to make a pinhole camera first out of an old Werthers Original tin, to make some pretty surreal photographs inspired by work of the Surrealist Claude Cahun, who lived and dies in Jersey.

by Jonny 'Dzonki'

Postmodernism has progressed by recessing into the history it came from, selectively. This meant that Postmodern dramatists could take the rationality of realist drama and combine it with the rejection of standards that the Absurdists embraced in order to customise a dramatic movement in which there was a new sense of freedom, liberation and acceptance.

Worldwide Environmental Exchange IV

Top: Africa and Europe - Day One of my time-based biodegradable sculpture
Below: Destroyed Africa after a night of storms :(