This is a list of posts that have inspired me or my work. Sometimes the inspiration directly feeds into a particular work. Sometimes it is just an artist’s work that I really love.
“My Favourite Artistic Advice” – great short video on youtube for creativity
Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain – a talk by David Lynch and associates
One of my favourite blogs: www.tenthdimension.com
a selection of works by multi-disciplinary artist Kent Monkman
‘In Praise of the Self-portrait’ -an article by Laura Cumming in the U.K.’s Observer
The Self-portraits of Rembrandt morphed
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, by Todd Haynes
Ev’ry time We Say Goodbye by Annie Lennox
Close to the Knives: a Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowiczs
Using your Rape-Fear Fantasmask
excerpts from Martha Graham’s autobiography Blood Memory
excerpts from Fast Feminism by Shannon Bell
Fire in My Belly, a video by David Wojnarowiczs and Diamanda Galas
excerpts from ORLAN’s Carnal Art Manifesto
Michel Foucault on life and art
Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia (excerpt)
Frida Kahlo’s The Broken Column (and other selected pieces)
the self-portaits of Frida Kahlo morphed
the photography of Claude Cahun
Giorgio de Chirico’s The Disquieting Muses
Cindy Sherman’s “Sex Pictures”
Diana Damrau as The Queen of The Night
The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan
Salvador Dali’s The Metamorphosis of Narcissus
short videos: WARN-U and Corps Core
selection of works by Damien Hirst
Nikos Kantantzakis on the spirit and the flesh
excerpt from “Holy Terror”, Bob Colacello on Andy Warhol’s self-portraits
U.K.’s Guardian interview with ORLAN