Cal Mackinnon Photographic Artist
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Artist statement: Cal MacKinnon.

Beyond the Pink Poodle, is a documentation of personal moments and private spaces, capturing resonant fragments of a fading era.

I grew up on The Gold Coast and have watched it's dramatic changes. In the three years I have been working on this project, The Pink Poodle Motel has been replaced by a high rise apartment, The Mayfair motel demolished, The Red Lion Motel is for sale, and The Silver Sands Motel has been sold and is due for demolition in April 2006 for a 21 story apartment block.
I stayed in each of these motels, recording a night within my own life, and documenting these unique and disappearing icons of the Queensland landscape.

Narrative is one of the most important elements of my work. Within that, I aim to create a subtext, subtle nuance, and unpredictability. In these images there is evidence of habitation, but no people. Only what's left behind.
Leaving a lot to the imagination, I encourage inquiry as to what has happened in these rooms.
Who has stayed here?
Why where they here? \
What fragments of their lives echo in these spaces?

Read: Sally Brands essay

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Photograph name: elusive sleep from the series: beyond the Pink Poodle by Art Photographer Cal Mackinnon  
Photograph name: empty promises from the series: beyond the Pink Poodle by Art Photographer Cal Mackinnon  
Photograph name: reception from the series: beyond the Pink Poodle by Art Photographer Cal Mackinnon  
Photograph name: midnight picnic from the series: beyond the Pink Poodle by Art Photographer Cal Mackinnon  
Photograph name: sleeping alone from the series: beyond the Pink Poodle by Art Photographer Cal Mackinnon  
Photograph name: the view from the road from the series: beyond the Pink Poodle by Art Photographer Cal Mackinnon
Photograph name: waking in the pool room from the series: beyond the Pink Poodle by Art Photographer Cal Mackinnon
Photograph name: Translucent Furnishings from the series: Beyond the Pink Poodle by Art Photographer Cal Mackinnon
Photograph name: a Sign from the series: Beyond the Pink Poodle by Art Photographer Cal Mackinnon
    
 

 

 

 

    

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