About How I Felt
How I Felt
In 2019 I jammed all my adult anxiety and childhood wonder into a sausage machine and what came out was How I Felt, a series that portrays:
– How I felt about moving back to Sydney after 30 years in NYC (Answer: old).
– How I Felt about being in my mid-50s (Again: old).
– How I felt about returning to art-making after a 20 year break (Terrified).
The series of 200 limited-edition dye transfer prints on acoustic felt tiles are basically a bunch of Angry Jokes, each piece merging nostalgia’s warm embrace with the jarring vicissitudes of aging and mortality. Some cleverpants described the series as existential dad jokes and that works for me.
How I Felt was also the first time I printed on acoustic felt, a process that required a lot of missteps to perfect. Each work is dyed into the same industrial material used for controlling sound in recording studios. My dream is to create custom treatments at scale for commercial and residential spaces, in no small part because I hate noisy restaurants!
Thanks to my crew of punctilious pundits for inspiration: Paul Bernasconi, Scott Holmes and Steve Walsh.
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2SAD
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Aborted Dreams
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Addled Paddle
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Age
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Angry Jokes
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Anxiety
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Anyhow… it’s a Minefield
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Austfailure
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Australia Past
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Backache
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Baffled Lush
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Barrel of Money
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Bewildered
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Big Dags
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Bill and Ben
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Bit Fat
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Bitter Memories
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Bleak & Darker
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Blundering Bum
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Bollox
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Boomers Worry
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Boozy Coot
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Brittle Nobby Knees
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Canisters
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Captain Sook
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Careerless Exasperated Male
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Cheapo Troll
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Chubba Blubba
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Churlish Gripe
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Cold New World
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Coldfate
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Colostomy Bags
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Comedic Garbage
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Constantly Affraido
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Crapola
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Daggy Fool
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Death Trap
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Depressed Chump with Hairplugs
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Dispirited
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Drag On
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Drinky Dill
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Erased
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Everything Sags
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Everythingsux
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Exploding Dread
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Eye Bags
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Fairly Awful Wages
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Fairly Bored
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Fantasy
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FLABBA
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GI Dunno
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Goin’ Crackers
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Goin’ in Circles
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Going Gowing Gone
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Gray Oldman & Too Gray Army
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Gullible Idiot
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Guru Adrian: Returnity
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Hadenough Woe
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Harumphy Bore
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Hashtags
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Haz Beans
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Hazelnut Roll Quad
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He’s Too Old
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Hey I Stufditup
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Hopeless Hotel 1
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Hopeless Hotel 2
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I Can’t Believe I’m Not Better
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It’s a Sad, Sad, Sad, Sad World
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Joy Derision: Loser
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Judgemental of Everything
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Just Jeers
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Kaput
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Killmepleez
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Knackered
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L-Pins
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Lame Gags
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Land of No Clients
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Life. Been in it.
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Lifesavings
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Lord Howe I’ve Aged
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Lost Disgrace
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Lostlooks (Skyhooks)
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Malaise
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Malcontents
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Manboobs
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Manic Meltdown
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Middle Age
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Middle Age Spreads
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Midlife Toil
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Missed Her Squiggle
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Mister Whipped
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Mortality
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Mr Metoo
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Mr Shame
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Mr. Do-Bee
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Must Fix
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Must Go For Real
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MyLow
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Neveready
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No Nothing
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No-Sex
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Nobody
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Now Older: My Ailment
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Old ‘n Graytime
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Old Fizzle
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Old Flabby Picky Sook
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Old Grey Me
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Old n Obese
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Old Spite After Shame
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OVR40
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Paralysing Feels
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Paranoid
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Passionless
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Perpetual Pitstop
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Person’s Fate
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Petulant Grudge
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Petulant Schadenfreude
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Phony Weakman
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Playd
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Poor n Empty
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Putribrain
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Quiet Bloke
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Quite Broke
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Raison D’etre
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Restingplace
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Rickety & Fullwrinkle
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Rushin’ Destructivist
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S/OLD