More value than your $2 peep show.
mix 'n' scratch 'n' cut 'n' paste.
mix 'n' scratch 'n' cut 'n' paste.

Multi-tasking and originating.
Hatching ideas and actualising some of them.
I do lots of things. And could probably do a lot more given the restraints of time & the means of golden cash flow - some things I do don't come cheap.

Like a creative buffet, I try not to restrict the scope of my concepts, or the choice of my media. A smorgasbord of versatility.

With a perverted mind and leftfield sense of humour lots of my stuff is off-beat. But there is also a stash of the serious and a taste of the underlying truths in many other works.

"In today's modern world of wasteful über-consumerism, and techno-geekery, we westerners are part of a society that is so far ahead of itself, yet too far behind. My work is a stark comment on the demands of this bland "hyper-consumption" and the gluttony of blah, blah, blah-de-blah... "

Actually that is just a lame excuse I'd critique it all with if I were still at art school. But I'm not so I'll tell you the truth. I do so many different things I can't label it with one sticker. Art imitates life, but so too does life imitate art, and more often these days.

Lia SickBitch :: forever recontextualizing common pieces of junk and thought. --- Original takes on common ideas.

Most people know me as "that-chick-with-heaps-long-hair-who-flashes-at-us-and-shoots-people" (it's a camera thing...), and don't really know what I do. Well it's really hard to sum up in a nutshell and I ain't about to try, Sweetcakes...
I'll give you a quick run down which is better than no run down, or a big hose down or something similar...

Like the by-line says, photographer, artist, writer, designer, creative freak. This list is partial, but is a large chunk of me.

Freelance Photographer - trained with beginnings in artistic photography. I've been there, shot that and inhaled enough darkroom chemicals to power a country town.

Been "Arty 'n' Farty" since childhood and was churned out of the sausage factory of art school when I grew up. I'm not your typical art stoner stereotype. My head is more a mixed bag of creative ideas and a melting pot of innovation & concepts that should be gaining me more than it is.

I am better at some things than I am others, and have an extreme fascination with the eclectic. (It adequately reflects my headspace and personality)

Writing with or without wit, on a whim or with wank, I have written with sparklers in the wind, and on napkins with sauce (but only in times of desperation). I write fact, I write fiction, I write factual fiction. Poetry, prose, pretty pieces. Business-like and informative, to funny (or pieces merely imitating humour), the bent and bizarre. I write articles, copy for ads & brochures, corporate stuff, party invites, eulogies (or was that eugoology) , songs I can't sing, monologues...oh the Humanity! The list can go on...!

Designer - goes hand-in-hand with my acute obsession with both art and digitised technology. It's a progression from mastering the art of technology, and the technological arts. I even design in my dreams. Like others before me, I can design lots of things (websites that are better than this one when required also included).

Creative and freakish all at once. This bucket catches the rest of the undefinable "whatevers" that I do. Things I might just do once. Things I might do lots and have no name for. Intangible things. Things I dare to dream about doing and haven't yet done. Things I can't be bloody well bothered to mention. And things I probably shouldn't ever mention.

Ah. My life is a 4 dimensional collage.
Unlimited. Underrated. Unconventional. Unavoidable. And sometimes Uncouth.
My own little microcosmos of 'all that and more'.


Put 2 & 2 together and you'll probably get 5.
Do the math on that one.

© Lia SickBitch - Added July 2004 - but still applicable