Emailed Responses to HABITAT

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Tim Schwarz wrote:

Awesome work Aunty Flossie, I especially liked Backdrop and Defeet, Backdrop would make a lovely artwork in my home. And is the cover art of a dolls house on legs? I have no where in my house to fit it but I’d certainly do my best to make room for it. All very well done. Neils email was excellent and hilarious, have you worked out how to get the leg  yet?

Love ya, TS

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Flossie Peitsch wrote:

Thanks, Tim-o’-my-heart!

Glad you liked BACKDROP! It would like great in your home! Likely to be a ‘leftover’ at some stage and you can stake a claim on it! lol The cover pic is called HOUSEPET

I found the doll’s house in the hard rubbish and added the legs but I didn’t know that it would take on such a big personality once the legs were attached! That was a fun surprise. No, Neil’s leg is not here. We have not worked out how to get it yet! I might have to visit them and drive it back here! I will attach a high DPI photo of HOUSEPET and you can print it yourself, frame it and you have a space friendly piece of art. I will even sign the photo when we visit -or you come here – next time!

BTW, may I use your email on my blog site? With your name?

MUCH LOVE!

Aunty Flo

HABITAT – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

The Last Leg

Neal Nuske and Flossie have been in dialogue vis-à-vis her art practise – casually, since 1975 and intensely, since 2004. A monoped since the age of twelve, Neal takes special interest in HABITAT and its featuring of various disconnected and ‘poised’ legs. Neal offered to contribute his own no-longer-used ‘detachable, bogus leg’. This proposal presented a problem.

Peitsch received the following email from Neal (now edited) soon after she arrived home from a recent, demanding overseas trip….

‘Bad luck about the snubbing welcome from your faithful and loving dog. So much for the notion of canine faithfulness and love. You sound discombobulated, ethnically confused, and suffering from nationalistic uncertainty, badly in need of an existential compass which works.

My only struggle has been trying to fit my other leg in a box. I went to a box factory which looked at me askance when I told them I wanted to post my leg to Melbourne. It was only then they looked down and realised I had been defeeted. They offered to reorganise their box making machinery to cut-out a box to suit. When I asked them the cost to do a special run in this gigantic, industrial type, (expletive), box-making factory, it became clear they could cover all their overdraft and back-dated superannuation bills in one sale. The salesperson smiled sweetly and was in no way aware of how close she came to being stuffed into one of their miserable and inadequate boxes and posted forthwith to New Zealand.

It was also the day I got horribly lost in the industrial area of Brisbane, a simple trip took me two hours. When I asked Australia Post how much it would cost to post one leg to Melbourne it soon became clear that nowhere at all on their filing system did such a postal category exist, the system jammed. I felt lost, alone, isolated and disjointed in the cosmos, without even a dog which had the honesty and integrity to reject me. ’

Such is life. With mirthful pathos, this story in itself, recapitulates the essence of HABITAT.  Once again, for these words, Peitsch admits that she owes Neal.

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

STACCATO

Groupings 1,2,3,4,5,6

Year: 2016

Medium: Canvas and wood, Set of twenty-five (25) panels.

Dimensions: (31 x 31) x 25

Price: : Each canvas (30cm x 30cm) @ $350 [inc GST and 30% commission]

For best results when learning to play music,  it is important to note the composer’s style playing directives. One such term is ‘Staccato’, of Italian origin meaning literally ‘detached or disconnected’. Here a collection of similar shapes relate to each other – or not – within their spaces. These patterns are a metaphor for the seemingly random connecting of cells, creatures, human beings, or experiences during life’s combined journey.

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

ACCESS

Year: 2012

Medium: Canvas and paper, Set of ten canvases

Dimensions: 30L x 30W x 10H

Price: Set is $2000 [inc GST and 30% commission]

ACCESS reflexively plays with one’s idea of ‘real art’. The QR* code + one’s phone is all that is required to access a history of artists with ecological / ideological causes or tally future issues that artists may pursue. All this exists outside of but with the support of ‘the white cube’. Going below the surface, it links blank wall, canvas and         technology with alternative space with active place with altered time. This is a blurring of preconceived art ideas and gallery conventions such as word versus image,  system versus sign, sound versus sight, public versus private,  inclusion and exclusion, to name only a few.

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ACCESS

by Flossie Peitsch, 2016

A collaboration with Matthias Peitsch

Rationale ACCESS reflexively plays with one’s idea of ‘real art’. The QR* code + one’s phone is all that is required to access a history of artists with ecological / ideological causes or tally future issues that artists may pursue. All this exists outside of but with the support of ‘the white cube’. Going below the surface, it links blank wall, canvas and         technology with alternative space with active place with altered time. This is a blurring of preconceived art ideas and gallery conventions such as word versus image,  system versus sign, sound versus sight, public versus private,  inclusion and exclusion, to name only a few.

G is for Gallery
T is for ted.com
H is for Hair
U is for jUnks
E is for Earth
L is for Look
S is for Saatchi
N is for Never
O is for glObal

 Collaborating IT/Music Composer: Matthias Peitsch

*This is a QR code and can be scanned by free applications available for a  Smartphone.

Programs that can access QR codes:

Android (free) – barcode scanner, google goggles,
iPhone (free) – RedLaser barcode scanner
Blackberry (free) – QR code scanner free

No trees have been harmed during this process.

ACCESS Contact the artist on 0457 726 257 or flossiepeitsch.com or flossie.peitsch@gmail.com

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

SIX DEGREES

Year: 2014

Medium: Fabric and canvas, Set of six (6) panels.

Dimensions: (30 x 60) x 6

Price: Total of six $4600 [inc GST and 30% commission

Though the tones between black and white are infinite, it is possible to move from one to the other in six tonal steps – using only fabrics found in the ‘average’ Spotlight Store. We are told the same ‘six step’ dictum often holds true in directly connecting oneself with a famous relative or celebrity. Through the morass of human beings, a linking thread of commonality can be discovered. This may also point to connection with all creation.

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

GAINING PURCHASE

Year: 2013

Medium: Wood, bottles, paper

Dimensions: 50W x 50L  x 40H

Price:  $3000 [inc GST and 30% commission]

GAINING PURCHASE highlights the conundrum of purchasing codes [Quick Response Codes] enabling purchasers to ‘gain purchase’ or information on their purchases but increasing an ever more futile effort to house what is gained in the purchase. So, in fact, instead of gaining purchase on the desired goods, the goods gain purchase on the purchaser!

A quirky feature of the installation is the drawers that have their pull knobs on the inside. This suggests additional ‘purchase’ but the ‘draw’ hides out of grasp. The end of this process is, therefore, unattainable.

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

DEFEET

Sets 1 – ??

Year: 2013

Medium: Canvas and paper, Set of forty-six (46) stylised animal/people feet

Dimensions: variable

Price: Each Set between $300 – $1000 POA [inc GST and 30% commission]

Many humans can identify with this ambivalent position. No one fully understands the world in which we currently live. No one can dogmatically say where the world came from, where it is going or why it exists. All we creatures share life on this connected site – this earth. But only some assume power and authority. Only a few can determine the fate of fellow creatures. The formula for influence is largely kept secret. This paradigm is signified in all things appearing black and white but truth is clearly, not the case.

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

BACKDROP

Panel A, B

Year: 2013

Medium: Fabric and coreflute, Set of two (2) stylised circus drops.

Dimensions: Each 400L x 150H

Price: Each @ $1400 [inc GST and 30% commission]

A scalloped circus tent is a beckoning icon for those who wish to have a wander into the world of fantasy. Thus, these panels become a fun and moving setting to bed the arrangement of strange feet.

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

ENCODE:

Canvases 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Year: 2012

Medium: Canvas and paper, Set of eight (8) 30 x 30 sq. canvases

Dimensions: 120W x 120H x 4D

Price: Each canvas @ $400 [inc GST and 30% commission]

If we needed to carry our houses and belongings with us, as do the animals, this simple requirement would curb even the most expansive desire to consume and own. Many other social issues and ‘pet viewpoints’ are poised by this whimsical installation.

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

HOUSEPET

(Detail)

Year: 2014

Medium: wood and fabric

Dimensions: 140H x 100L x  64W

Price: $4,700 [inc GST and 30% commission]

If we needed to carry our houses and belongings with us, as do the animals, this simple requirement would curb even the most expansive desire to consume and own. Many other social issues and ‘pet viewpoints’ are poised by this whimsical installation.

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

STARDOM:

Panels 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Year: 2013

Medium: Fabric, Set of SEVEN (7) panels

Dimensions: Four @ 200W x 200L; Three @ 250W x 250L

Price: Each panel @ $1700 [inc. GST and 30% commission]

The Big Bang Theory. Not sure how widely held this theory of life creation has become. But, the idea is certainly the pictorial source for seven (7) dominant, exploding, creative panels. They are simple variations on a theme and set the imagination to work playing with the discrepancies at hand. Like all creation, we are intriguing variations on a theme.