Title: 2008 Now and Then Location: Linton Kay Galleries 299 Railway Rd Subiaco WA Date: 2008/08/07 Description: Extracted from How to Save the World Series 1 Organifying the City Mind By Helen Norton Fremantle July 21 2008 “Sitting at the corner of Stock road and Leach Hwy – from overhead there is a black cross or is it a junction of bitumen rivers and for some reason the shiny coloured capsules on two sides have stopped, they are not moving, they are purring – the eyes are located on the right side behind a glazed cover, almost like a flounder, not quite central to the body.  Nature has in its wisdom put the brain and eyes here”.  …How can I re-vision my thinking about something that disturbs me, causes me a sense of personal suffering?  Living in the city; hovering at traffic lights, watching SBS and the world news; peeping into all the horror stories in everyone’s backyards.   Here I am, sifting through all the stuff that gets airplay; that we thirst for, all the gore, the war and the beautiful home magazines in between. …So how and why would I celebrate or hold development, pollution, overcrowding, poor planning, and materialism in a romantic sensual abstraction of meaning or distortion of truth …on canvas?  …It is really a psychological attitude change that allows me to approach pollution more positively and creatively. …Embracing our development as an inevitable outcome of our full reality allows us to manage it more responsibly, to apply our creativity to our problems, to think about preservation and beauty as being something we want to do rather than something we ‘must do’ to save our bacon. That development and balanced evolution is as important to reach in our internal selves as it is in our cities and material obsessions as ultimately they are a further expression and symptom of our organic condition. …“In the new “How to Save the World” series, of paintings, I attempt to “organify” – to pull down, to animalize our highly refined processed life into a possible decomposing of existing perceptions about visual symbols of hardness, in order to challenge the non biodegradability of our city life attitudes. For all my scientific friends I say - After all - is the answer to saving the world really just there already in the cure for hair loss? Man Transporting Camel - SOLD The Cure for Hair Loss - SOLD Step Carefully in the Cleavage SOLD Namlamina - SOLD Walk Your Dogs Despite Your Fears - SOLD Pets Tend to Sleep on Beds - SOLD Cats Disappear if You Dont Care - SOLD Maintain a Bird Eye View - SOLD Boy Dog and Bones - SOLD A House Plan - SOLD Wash Your Umbrella Occasionally SOLD ESSAY - How to Save the World Crying Cat - SOLD Dog Brawl in Home Paddock - SOLD Grannys Must Cross - For Sale Keep an Animal at all Times - For Sale Don't Get Lost - SOLD Avoid Cyclists - For Sale Be Careful in the Garage - SOLD Be Careful in the Garage - DETAIL SHOT SOLD Bull With Egret on Horn - SOLD