The thing that makes an Inkslinger Original unique is the squiggly
brush writing found somewhere in the art work. It is almost always
English alphabet calligraphy which looks like Chinese or Japanese.
Just like Asian scripts, it is read from top to bottom and right to
left.
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enlarged photo
Drizapoem
- "The man from snowy river" > Banjo Patterson. Inscribed onto a real
size rice-paper Drizabone(tm), 1993
"We
Love the Opera House" (List of ten quotes describing the Opera House.)
Ink on Paper, 55 x 80cm, 1992
Poem
on six panels: "Andy's Gone with Cattle", 1993
"36
views of Ayres Rock" (After Hiroshige's 36 views of Mt. Fuji) Ink and
watercolour on paper, A1 size, 1993
"What
does it all mean", Ink and watercolour on paper, A3 size, 1993
"Happy
Day, Don't You?", Ink and watercolour on paper, A3 size, 1993
Folding
Fly-screen. Quote is Australian advertising
jingle "Louie the fly". Wood, washi, paper, ink & nylon mesh. 1993
Carpe
Diem - Latin for "Seize the day". Silk scroll, 46 x 130cm, 1996
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photo
Soba;
Rice ball; Tea (Square, triangle, circle - the 3 perfect Zen
enclosures) Panels of shoe cupboard doors designed to look like a
folding screen. Sumiroku, Aoyama. 1998
Me
Nashi (No Eyes) Merissa Dreaming, Handmade paper, 60 x 85cm, 1993
Three
paper Lamps, 1994
"There's
more enterprise in walking naked" > W. B. Yeats. Mounted on panel 52 x
73cm, 1997
"Be
What You Would Seem To Be". Seven scrolls, each 90 x 100cm, silver &
sumi ink on paper on black faux crocodile skin vinyl scrolls, 1998
"Sacred
cows make great hamburgers" > Robert Reisner. Hari-e and ink
mounted on panel 52 x 73cm, 1997
"An
eel a day keeps the doctor away" > Japanese Midsummer proverb.
Hari-e and ink mounted on panel 52 x 73cm, 1997
"But
I'm not so think as you drunk I am" > Sir John Squires. Hari-e
and ink mounted on panel 52 x 73cm, 1997
