Ethnoasthetics

... the untrained artist who decorates his Daihatsu with Marvel comic characters, is seen as a degenerate, a loony, his job was driving through the island villages selling bread. He speaks with a quiet voice, as if ghost people are listening from behind the tombstones. Someone complains that the bread is overdone, the loony artist apologies and says in a whisper that he was not the person who cooked the bread. The woman who sometimes puts monopoly money in the church offering is smoking tobacco, it will have to last until market day when she can sell her bananas and her high quality papaya, where the seeds came from her cousin's bush garden in the next village. There is a major problem brewing  in the village where the artist lived. His people, who have been labelled as lunatics, have chosen a person who had been previously shot at, for peeking in peoples windows during the early morning breezes, as their representative in the assembly of Chiefs. The dark green Daihatsu needs a spare wheel. The Artist had one three days ago however he felt sympathy for his cousin who had just left the hospital for an ear infection that was caused by too much island debris floating in the air. If the artist strikes a rusty nail on the road during his routine, he will be in serious trouble, for the bread he was carting had to be sold before sunset.

Essay writing

I am making progress on my essay . The process has been rather slow, a crawl at times, hopefully I shall have an interesting draft to present in front of the class next week? My topic is 'How has Polynesian culture influenced my art studio practice?' 

Student Break

Composing a 2500 word essay on Art and Culture. When the going gets tough- the tough get going.