Being vague.

People tend to take offense when being Vague. I'm attempting to understand why this is. People have a need to take things seriously, probably because vagueness is a lack of conviction. Vagueness is not having much to say but saying something any way, so its a step up on nothingness. It could also be viewed as the excess of saying nothing. The last point seems to mirror most Relationships, i mean this in all its connotations. The way to avoid vagueness is to write something and over time pad it out with Meaning, this is the same with life, you pad it out over the course of it. This will move a thing away from vagueness but its sort of dishonest, but you can't argue with progress either. That is If you consider a move away from vagueness to be progress. 

I like the device of being vague and will always opt for it over ambiguity. Art dislikes vagueness but will zealously promote ambiguity, because its easier psychologically and there is always the need to believe there is something beyond the superficial. 

Television likes vagueness, it allows viewers to passively participate. It lets you fill the gaps by allowing for gaps, leeway. Its a sort of guided freedom where the amusement is as much in your head as it is the show (some art does this).   

 





   

Indifference is Ironic.

This statement I found hard to comprehend for some time. I'll start with Art. Art is like the handicapped child of the world, people work with it and hope that it will come to fruition at some point but all are unsure how so. Art in the past has had a purpose, the works with religious and biblical references were used to aid the church in altering its subjects perceptions. Portraiture was used for posterity and to demonstrate ones importance. The paintings of Claude Monet are beautiful which is enough reason for me.

Today the art forum tries to convince (itself mostly) that it is a powerful force, bringing about social improvement. Art can only every be used as supplement for altering models of thinking (in general) and this is where it stops. As it is people thoughts, actions and words thats really change things. Art will always be confined to a supplementary position.

Indifference is ironic because indifference is recognizably a greater investment into something. Its the choice of maintaining a distance towards a thing because one does not fully agree, or doesn't like the appearance of been in unconsidered agreement. But really it is just a slightly altered take on the same situation and thats what really makes it ironic, its a redefining of the same situation. Indifference is really just slight difference.

Tommy

Fat Creep. a disguise

Fat guy, Disguise #2 

Hhi

So it has been awhile, got side tracked. But since I am about to embark on a whole bunch of new stuff, There should be heaps of stuff.
I just graduated,so think I'll put that into a Aphorism. "Graduation is a lot like receiving the bill after the meal, which is cool if you feel fully satisfied. But anything less and its just a document taunting: you shouldn't have paid that much.

well now thats out of the way here are images of my Lightbox images.

Handshake #1

Buzz Moonlander

Disguise #1 as thief 

Gift 

astronaut.

Tommy Robson, (2010). Spaceman (#2). photographic image. 

Something from my cardboard series. The reason i used cardboard is, I saw it as a way of communicated an idea, while not having to become a astronaut. Which seemed to be a universal fantasy during the space era an era that held a mass optimism. 
The outfit is just edifice, the less i have to do to achieve a sufficient outcome is what I desired. kind of like scoring less inhibited girls is for blokes. 
Tommy.    

Mid Yr Series, Handshakes.

Tommy Robson, (2010). all images. 36 x 30cm photographic pigment print on cotton rag 

Accompanying Statement,

The handshake is a universal gesture that is instinctively recognised. We understand what it means but its recognition is so intuitive that we do not stop to consider it. If we did, we may observe this distinct gap between the inferred content and the superficial representation of the gesture itself. 

It is one of the most powerful political tools, yet it means almost nothing. 

My very 1st bog post, feeling in touch

Fullcream image 10  2010

Thought i would post a image from my now old series "FullCream".  The series is bout taking something else and appropriating it with a marginal degree of difference e.g black people and hip hop ( or simply known as resignification).