Seed

Artwork from the story

My serial fiction story Seed about the Melbourne art world is up now on Medium for a beta read. I thought it might be fun to do a separate picture story with just the artworks I created for each of the twelve chapters.

So here goes:

‘Claustrophobic’ — from Chapter 1: ‘Return to the City’

One of Melbourne’s many narrow, cobbled laneways. Very Dickensian!

‘Perspectival’ — from Chapter 2: ‘Mouth Meet Foot’

This is the back of the Supreme Court shot from the eighth floor of the Mantra on Little Bourke. I loved the powerful lighting and vertiginous perspective.

‘Hardware Lane’ — from Chapter 3: ‘Noodle Soup’

Again a narrow laneway, but more life this time — and the Pho café which features in the story.

‘Trippy City’ — from Chapter 4: ‘The Factory’

Taken from the centre courtyard of Gordon House. I loved the mixture of old and modern façades with the palm tree — and applying this Pop Art filter, like, blew my mind, man …

Here’s the original photo for comparison:

Old and modern walls and fire escape, from Gordon House

Which is pretty cool itself, I think.

‘CMYK’ — from Chapter 5: ‘Flatmates’

This old lifedrawing of mine from the mid-1990s came in handy as it sort-of matches the subject matter of the chapter. I decided it needed tricking up a bit with the colour separations.

‘Royal Exhibition Building’ — from Chapter 6: ‘Heartbeat’

The already stunning photo I was lucky to capture, of the backlit fountain in the early morning light, in front of the shaded façade with its majestic dome, really reached…