Deleuze describes affect as autonomic, trigger-like, physical reactions that are above all else bodily.  There is an instant trigger to images which I examine; the responses to pictorial reminiscences, romanticism, memory. 

‘L.H.O.O.Q. ERE!

2001, Inkjet on canvas

Dianne Jones

‘L.H.O.O.Q.

1919

Marcel Duchamp

‘Portrait of Captain James Cook, 1782’

John Webber (c.1752–1793)

‘JONES’S PICNIC’

2001

‘Aborigines Dancing at Brighton, Tasmania, 1835’, John Glover

‘BRENDA’S WEDDING’

2001

THE BARTER, 1854, Eugene Von Guerard

‘Shearing the Rams’

2001

Convicts by Heritage, Guilty by ChoiceaussieBum www.aussiebum.com

‘Shearing the Rams, 1890, Tom Roberts

Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, 1975 Toby Brown Tjampitjinpa, 1976

Yuyuya Nampitjinpa 2007

Eileen Napaltjarri 2008

Papunya Tula Artists

‘ABORIGINAL DOT PAINTING SERIES’ 2001

#1 #2 #3

#4 #5

‘Bondi’ 1939

Max Dupain

‘Bondi’ 2003

‘Sunbaker’ 2003

‘Sunbaker’ 1937 Max Dupain

‘Beach Scene’,2003

‘At Newport’, 2003

‘Fashion Queue’ 2003 ‘Bondi’ 2003

‘Sunbaker’, 2003 ‘Redfern Interior’, 2003

‘Meat Queue’ 2003 ‘Dianne Jones’, 2003

‘BLACKLASH SERIES’ 2003

‘JOHN’ 2005‘JUELISA’ 2005

‘MURRAY’ 2005 ‘KRISTY’ 2005

‘LEST WE FORGET’

2007

‘A WHITE PORTRAIT’2007

‘Kojonup, WA’2008

Northam, WA2008

Perth, WA2008

‘Ye must be born again: John 3:7’2009

‘Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel: Mark 16:15,

2009

‘A little less conversation’2009

Flaming Star, 1960 Elvis 1963, Andy WARHOL

‘All this aggravation ain’t satisfactioning me’

2009

Actor: Cary Grant, 1904 - 1986

‘A little more bite and a little less bark’ 2009

Actor: Audrey Hepburn, 1929 – 1993

‘A little less fight and a little more spark’ 2009

Actor: Grace Kelly, 1929 – 1982

‘Close your mouth and open up your heart’

2009 Actor: James Dean, 1931 – 1955

Coolbaroo Waltz, 2010

Coolbaroo York Quicksteppin, 2010

Coolbaroo Swing, 2010

‘The Hidden’

2011

‘Things She Saw’

2011

‘Still in Time’

2011

‘Rise’

2011