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	current MA students: suzannah jones	• karen abadie   sarah adey   sue austin   thomas baugh   sue deakin   lucy fisher   cheryl hancock   sophie jones •   • suzannah jones   sarah king   claire meharg   wayne stefano   albertine symes   jean thompson
	Painting is my way of making sense of my experiences and research. Ultimately the paintings I make become my own myths, metaphors and equivalences: basically, stories. Currently, I’m exploring words and writing; making meaning and failure to do so; how even in the unlikely event of our words being well-chosen, the instability of language can thwart communication. I’m also thinking about how we may make absurd connections and structures, which become real to us and influence later perceptions. I’m wondering whether it’s possible to separate signifier and signified to make a signifier of the signifier, or whether that always makes another signified? In my paintings, I am starting with quotes on the subject of foundational meaning and the impossibility thereof and following non-logical systems to produce new forms from these phrases, which in turn suggest other possible meanings. Ideas right now are: Nietzsche’s will to power: the making of metaphor to impose order on chaos; many of Derrida’s ideas: the impossibility of fundamental or ultimate assignation of meaning; the endless play of signifiers and deferment of meaning; and Baudrillard’s hypertelia: infinite proliferation of meanings.
		inconsistent reading (2008)
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