OGR By coyle Loughran

LOUISE BOURGEOIS
born on the 25th of December 1911 in Paris France, a middle child with an older brother and sister. parents
had a gallery featuring antique tapestries featuring many frail pieces of work being produced from her
parent's restoration works. she studied maths in 1930 at Sorbonne. with her work she had a calm mind, her
tutors have stated that she has more skills more suited for sculpting compared to skills painting. emigrating to
new york where she studied at "art students league of new york" were her first painting was contained in a
grid.-"the grid is a very peaceful thing because nothing can go wrong, everything is complete. Everything
has a place, and everything is welcoming". most of her work during 1940 was constructed out scrap junk and
driftwood. 1954 she befriended the abstract artist Jackson Pollock. and currently changing from working
with wood on plaster and bronze.
she used experiences from her own life and poured it into the construction of her artwork; investigating fear,
vulnerability, and loss of control. and her work at one point had a directional change towards the subject of
feminine art and using the female form in many different ways.
FEMME MAISON 1946-47 is a painting where she explored "the relationship of a woman and a
home". MAMAN was a spider sculpture that she displayed in that late 1990 explaining how "it alludes to
the strength of her mother. spinning and weaving in nature and protecting." Louise work at another point in
her career contained aspects of her "childhood traumas and concealed emotions" at a point when her father
was having a affair and her mother's dying was affecting her . it is also noted that architectural, memories
and sexualities are incorporated into her work. after meeting Tracy Emin who was influenced by her work
and then worked together with her on producing a piece called " do not abandon me".
TRAVELOGUE
My City Narbra "the twisted city". Using the artist Louise Josephine Bourgeois, from what I have gathered she uses more fleshy industrial tones when producing her work,
and warping of figures and deforming ligaments with her past experiances. The twisting figures that she had produced are a statement to abstract art. The city is a cultural
marvel almost every citizen in the city is somewhat an artist.

TRAVELOGUE:
Located in a remote part of the desert and, as you make your way across the large dunes (that plagued the land) you find at some point in the distance, the twisted figures
that Bend and Warp in all forms of directions. As you approach you wonder what is this twisted hellscape that is laid out before you. With the buildings containing some
metal support but having a skin like texture, almost making the buildings of the city seem to be constructed out of flesh as compared to the standard form of building
materials that you would use. You later learn of the cities bizarre architecture is derived from old beliefs that were conceived far underground in the ruins of the old city.
When you go to investigate this city, defined by knots of twisted figures displayed above ground, you then pass to the underground where you are greeted by these Titans
like lifeless monoliths, black inform and with no indication of life even existing there, even though people still walk through the sanguine like streets. If you look through
each building you find that these people were devoted to the upper levels of the civilization the "Old God Hastur".
I contemplate the Idea of such a city even exist this far in a lifeless desert far from any other civilization, but large vein-like tunnels spread far under the desert allowing
train access to other cities and transport of food/water/ and goods.
The buildings compared to the simplistic monoliths which are simple and efficient since the city's founding. But as we have heard, above the ground in the newer parts of
the city we find the city has gone from a simple common style to grouped segmented twisted monuments. As you walk through the streets pathed in blackened stone you
ponder how these building became so exaggerated. You come across a local who family has lived here since the beginning; They explained that a single line has been
floating around the city for years and years that has caused many creative minds such as architects/artist/interior designer and so on to become more and more intense in
their designs. This is to the point where the very city that they walked through "day in and out" seemed to be made out of flesh and metal. A tribute to the sentence that
started it all off...

'tell me have you seen the yellow sign?'