these pictures are very small sections of a double page in my book that i did with lots of thick white paint, thin colourful paint dripping down the pages and coloured tissue paper layered on top. in my book it is almost figurative (of a horse head) but taken out of context it becomes completely abstract which i really like.

just a photo of J i randomly came across that i took a while ago. i really like it, probably just because of that beautiful bag...

crazy/scary man eating live scorpions, yes they're alive and plural - MUST WATCH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q2r1UfjKBM

(hope the link works seeing as im not the biggest computer genius)

the words i chose to base the research for my new project on were strength and gender. in Paris, i looked a lot at the human form, in particular in sculptures such as those from the Rodin museum as well as the d'Orsay museum. not only is gender present in human, but i tried to apply gender to objects such as architecture, shapes and colours.

i also looked at different sculptures and paintings of horses, as a representation of strength. i was interested in looking at other types of strength too, such as strength of colour and strength of contrast.