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TheCathartic Snapshot
An interesting image describing many themes of my work. Series of four.
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Mordialloc Fish and Chip shop
Just a hunch, and a pleasure to execute.
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The Circus
This was a circus in the old city square in Melbourne. So Titled because I saw the surrounding landscape more bizarre than mere bizarreness for entertainments sake.
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Decisions, Decisions
Symbolicaly rendered into the crossway of Flinders and Swanston Streets, was my literal and visual description of the angst I felt between black and white. Now I always endeavor, even aim, to appreciate shades of grey.
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The Silent City
An Image that relied on a lot of preliminary sketches. It was moulded to the idea of 'The Golden Mean', which was being taught to me by Artist Rick Amor at the time.
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Psychotic Postcard
Excecuted while sick, the predisposition for not knowing what is real and what is not is evident.
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Collins Street
I used to love watching the people sitting on the steps of St Pauls Cathrdral across from Flinders Street Station.
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Paradise Gardens
Lavishly decorated at the front with mail order palm trees, 'Paradise Gardens' reveals how it is structured-with concrete slabs, as a facade.
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Ozone
Drawn on my birthday in 1993, before my psychosis, I was still thinking metaphysical, come obcessive thoughts about the world and its physical space, especially in terms of unerasable damage people have done to it.
It was a hot day and I was getting burnt. Hence the title 'Ozone'.
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Doodle
Reflections of psychosis and the efforts of appropriating world events and crises into symbology.
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Delta Demolitions
Through my youthful dischordancy, sometimes I will find some degree of humor in my work. This image actually happened.
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Delusion
A duality of meaning. The information we get from the media seems more real than the 'facade', static object it eminates from.
Likewise, delusions that come from a facetious source can seem more real than reality itself.
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Flinders Street Station
A feverent sketch of my favorite intersection.
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Rave Scene
A ditty of a reflection after an underground rave.
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Swanston Street
Another feverent sketch 20 minutes later of the oppisite direction, where the new Federation square currently resides.
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Shoppinglands.
Evident of my early paranoia and cynicism, is the camera 'eyes' looking at the people descending, as if into hades, on an escallator, to a shopping centre-a place I generally despise.
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Flinders Street 2
One of my strengths and weaknesses has been being adaptable in style. This a very different image of Flinders Street, influenced by Red Grooms. My Dad used to work for years supporting us in the SEC building.
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Southbank
Sketch of southbank, Melbourne, when it was first built.
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Time as an illusion
This was quite a labored image in its structure, and tried to describe beings and a landscape where metaphysical time and space dont exist as we know it.
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St Pauls Cathedral.
I absolutely love how loose this image is.
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Experience of the visitors
This is a reflection of a memory I have from when I was about 16. The larger female being was not there-I just added her with my creative licence. ;)
But the little grey bloke induced quite a paradigm change in my idea of metaphysics and the recollection of similar incidences in my childhood.
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Street Sweeper
The stereotypical male equivalent of vacuuming the carpet.
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Logo 1
After my psychosis, I tried to graphically represent images in their most succinct form.
You can probably sense the dischordancy of ideas in this and following sketches.
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Swanston Street Walk
TRYING to draw naively is sometimes a challenge but most enjoyable.
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Logo 2
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Mordialloc Creek
When I was younger, my mates and I would get stonned, go to the mooring and lie on the boats and look at the sky.
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Logo 3
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The Palm Facade.
Can you see what happens to biodiversity once it is seen through the screen?
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Roundabout
This was the end result of the roundabout I used to draw and sit at whilst I was sick.
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The Arts Centre Underpass
The Arts Centre Underpass, Melbourne.
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Memory of a destitute
A memory of my empathy for a homeless person. Drawn from memory, the cars and people all have their own agendas. By paradox, he is free in a way.
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The West Gate Bridge
I always like drawing my surroundings, which escher like, includes the media I am working on.
A drawing of a drawing!
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The Monopoly Train
Before I knew what the internet was, or had a computer, I drew this in 1992.
It describes a person looking at a screen that is like a newspaper-an 'internet'. The device is pessamistically called 'TM-The Masses', and reflects my morning trips to uni on the train.
The wording on the screen, an illustration by 'Richard McLean', says 'In retrospect they realised the future wasnt somewhere they would go, but somewhere they were taken'.
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Williamstown, Victoria
This has a lovely feel to it I think, probably due to the fact I drew it whilst being in love with the person who was with me.
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Waterflow
Described in 'Recovered, Not Cured..."
Metaphorical symbols of concern. Sexuality, communications, people, artificiality, travel, waste, and an ever sensed feeling of going around in loops.
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All images are copyright Richard McLean/www.richiemclean.com 1973-2006.
NB: *DISCLAIMER* Having original files of these images gives no right to freely distribute or reproduce.
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