Konii C Burns

Name: Konii C Burns

Digital photo, unretouched from mobile phone. 2010.

I came across this bike as I wandering the streets of Melbourne. Walking for hours, as my mother was attended to in ICU. My mother died on Boxing Day 2010.

At this time I was without a home or studio. Everything I owned jammed into my van. My mobile phone was the only available source of which to catch this piece of inspiration. Having to face the death of a parent is something you can never prepare for. Through Hazel’s blog, I felt a common thread. Hazel was also experiencing this at the time with her father battling cancer.

On the day I found this bike I read her blog “no 1 daughter.”

Hazel’s father had given her dog tags with this engraved.  Reading that particular blog entry I wept whole heartedly, for Hazel and for myself.

As I walked, this bike, without tyres, strapped to a post, stopped me in my tracks and screamed Hazel to me.    I thought of a little girl riding her bike, perhaps Hazel’s father was the one to teach her. For many reasons this bike stopped me. Predominately being the colour. No less than Dooney pink.

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Scott Malcho Hull

Name: Scott Malcho Hull

Profession: Mariner

Career: Artist

I’ve sailed from the Arctic Circle to the Caribbean and back again, docking at a few places along the way. Ridden a fence or two. Viewed life from the saddle of a long series of much loved motorcycles. All of which has enriched my life and my art.

For the past 24 years, I have been honoured to be an officer, chief engineer, in the united states merchant marine, and spent nearly 30 years I Alaska on the Bering sea in various commercial vessels. I’ve been making art longer than that.

I like to use mixed media with strong emphasis on texture. I am also interested in photography as art especially water related scenes.

While recovering from an injury at sea, I was able to attend and graduate from the graphic design program at Seattle central community college in 1999. I currently live, work, and create art on the shores of Lake Michigan and beautiful Lake Wawasee, in northern Indiana. The Alaska state flag from the dock.

Tilt: Art is war in blue.

Jason McDonald

Name: Jason McDonald

Name of work: Halcyone Days (photograph courtesy of Lindsay Terry)

Media used: Mixed (acrylic, India ink and other pigments on paper, textiles and canvas).

Description: In Greek mythology, “Halcyone Days” refers to the tragic heroin Alcyone. Ceyx, Alcyone’s lover, is murdered by Zeus after the couple unwittingly offend the god. Overcome by fear and anguish Alcyone then meets with her own tragic demise by flinging herself into the sea to perish. As a result, the other gods take pity on the pair and transform them into Halcyone birds, traditionally known as the kingfisher. Every year following the transformation, Alcyones' father, Aeolus, god of the winds holds back wind and waves for seven days so that she may lay her eggs upon a floating nest to rear her young. These seven days became known as Halcyone days.

Contemporary use of the phrase ”Halcyone Days” means to fondly remember a period considered peaceful and idyllic.

In modern times, the drug Halcyon is a sedative prescribed in cases of severe insomnia.

                   
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Jennifer Mathis

Name: Jennifer Mathis

Title: I wonder if I’d be happier

Creation dates: December 2010 to January 2011

Media: Pencil sketches, adobe Photoshop, and windows live movie maker.

This video is based upon Hazel Dooney’s blog post “a Point of No Return”. In which she considers a life where she quits painting, deciding instead to work a “nine-to-five McJob”.

As her writings move from speculation about life with a normal job, to remembrance of the time she had that sort of job, the on screen Hazel transitions. Beginning as a realistically rendered pencil drawing with shading and texture, she transforms to a single line ink drawing, finally becoming a version of herself rendered in a style similar to her iconic enamel paintings.

This Hazel stripped of detail, flattened and encapsulated in the world of the nine to fiver, and is how I imagined her if she had quit art: a vibrant, colourful individual, surrounded by a greyed out world who would eventually succumb to the draining of all colour herself.

Gabrielle Christopher

Artists Name: Gabrielle Christopher

Title of work: Hazel, the brave: The ‘art of the matter.

Date: January 2011

Media: Acrylic on canvas

Hazel, the brave: The ‘art of the matter is a representation of the “hunter and hunted” suggesting at once both power and vulnerability. To be seen in the light of the truth requires the softness of vulnerability and the strength of courage. Hazel Dooney, Brave warrior, offers herself up for public consumption; heart and soul. Rather than “suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”. Dooneys' quiver contains paint brushes. Her weapons of choice, masterfully wielded for good instead of evil with skill and precision, she finds her target. You’ll notice she’s wearing feathers and has claimed a scalp or two. The background colour is not quite Dooney pink; however, I picked up this colour at Wal-Mart last time I was in the states. It’s an acrylic by apple barrel called “diva pink” if you can believe it.

©NOK &T/ART

Name: ©NOK &T/ART

HAZEL DOONEY strong individualistic challenging attention stimulating vigorous brave cool hidden exhibitionistic sharp serious innocent hard-core quality art confrontational naughty immodest feminine sexual island quest murky interrogation identity perception solitary personality disorder expressive persistent bipolar impotence relationship sardonic content sensitive complex black mood reality unpredictable white scars intelligent sanity brave proud fragile genius unruly emotional dissection DREAMING HAZEL DOONEY parallelism video BEHIND CLOSED DOORS breaking silence facing colourful scars walking through past  ©NOK &T/ART.

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Phoinix

Name: Phoinix

Title: Icon

Medium: Acrylic paint on primed and cradled Masonite board

Completed in December 2010

This painting borrows the visual format of a religious icon to illustrate my view of Hazel’s iconic status as an artist, her forceful independent personality and total intolerance for fools. All traits which are clearly visible in Hazels uniquely open online persona. The composition is grounded in part by symbols for a poem Hazel has tattooed on her body. ”In front is a precipice, behind are wolves. She flies with her own wings.” The middle finger in place of a blessing and paint brush instead of a fig leaf, round out the paintings symbolic imagery.

Artists, even unknown ones, put a great deal of ourselves into the world to be viewed, commented on and sometimes even collected but the public performance of art no matter how open will never present a holy accurate view of the artist. It may not be a totally accurate interpretation, but in hazels case, it is definitely interesting.

Ryan McCoy:

Name: Ryan McCoy


In Making these images, I attempted to simply reflect on what i have learned about Hazel Dooney through her countless online posts, which I have followed for years and which have influenced me tremendously as an artist. I realized that my perceptions of Hazel where based entirely on what she revealed online, and that all I really have is an impression, or more specifically, an impression that is made up of hundreds of little impressions. In reflecting, I was stuck by the spectrum of imprints in my mind of Hazel, from her obvious strength and will to unbelievable vulnerability and sadness. From her stability and resilience, to her candid and unapologetic exploration of herself, her thoughts and her feelings. There is an undeniable honesty and conviction behind her transmitted persona and it seams with Hazel, we get the good the bad and the ugly, but it is in that honesty and conviction with which she approaches her work and transmittion where cumulatively, it all becoms beautiful and compelling.


I did these images with watercolour, lead pencil and ink on coldpress paper, materials that are very much apart of Hazel's visial language.

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Oliver Searle

Artists Name: Oliver Searle


My dream of being a professional Fashion photographer Illustrator/Artist inspires my artwork.
The first memories I have of drawing evolve around human figures and fashion. I work with various mediums including water colour, oil pastels. pencil and acrylic. I hope people can connect and be inspired by  my art work, that they can draw their own interpretations from my works.


Title: Oooops!


Medium: Ink, Water colour and acrylic on paper.


Created: January 2011


This is Ollie's first artwork for 'Dreaming Hazel Dooney'. After doing research and learning about Hazel, Ollie obtained Permission to use photographs from her blog as a reference point. He feels that there is a sexuality that comes through in her blog and photographs that she confidently expresses. Within that context, Ollie feels that this picture 'Oooops! I did it' is unusual and not as direct. The hand covers the mouth and the eyes are squinting so Ollie decided to avoid some of the detail, choosing instead a soft focus.
At  the Beginning of a journey Ollie explores how he did not really know Hazel, and wonders "do we ever actually know some one fully?"








Title: 'The Softer Side'




Medium: Water colours and pencil on paper.




Created: January 2011


This the third work From Ollie, was inspired by a picture of Hazel Dooney on the front of the magazine 'Obvious' The picture shows Hazels facial structure in more detail than the other peice's created.


Ollie Says, "There was a sence of truth in the picture but also a sence of concealment. I like the idea because I still feel like I dont really know her. I dont think you can really know someone untill you meet them and even then? However i do feel more of a softness from Hazel the more i read her blog, especially when she was writing about her father."


One again Ollie leverages the colour purple but this time in more a soft delicate way in contrast to her strong profile.

     Oooops!

The softer side

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