Back to Work

The past few months have been interesting domestically - and now the studio and house are surrounded by a sea of mud as drainage issues are addressed. Soon it will be back to normal with only the chooks to stir the place up.

Poseidon (maquette)

Poseidon

Poseidon

I put a bronze casting into the Annual Exhibition - a maquette because I wasn't brave enough to go for a metre high work before resolving the form. It took a bit of effort to make it look as though I'd just thrown it together.

And then to the question of the presentation of art - or the presentation of food.... and so I made "Deconstruct" which would be a pleasant enough piece of Manchurian pear wood - so how do you like it served?

Deconstruct

The exhibition is on at 600 Bourke Street Melbourne until 26 August

A Chip Off...

Chip Bjorn

Having the loan of a chainsaw made roughing out a new stand for the bronze "For Sheena" that much faster - it also produced some nice cut pieces... so there's fun to be had seeing what is in those interesting shapes.

Today the new stand - "Petal for Sheena" is at Herring Island and I'm off to the opening! It looks like perfect weather. See you there.

Clean coal? Clean diesel? Cheap electricity? I wonder

tangled wires - not what we consider safe

 Here are some cliches: "cheap and nasty", "quick and dirty" ... telling me that if you seek low price and instant gratification without regard to quality you may well be left unsatisfied. And you can't have it for nothing.

Breakfast is .... the first meal of another day

My parents separated and divorced quite bitterly as was the way in the sixties... then they didn't speak to one another for fifty something years. And now they've died within months of each other. Hard enough to reconcile two distant parts of my identity while they lived, to love two people so different, to ignore that icy barrier between.... and now to cope with sorrow of parting.

As for everyone who is lucky enough, the time has come to walk the walk as the eldest generation.

End of an Era

http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/pharmacologist-became-an-adviser-on-chemical-weapon-disarmament-20150211-13ccaz.html 

Reduced to the sum of her possessions? Never! My mother was a force of nature which, even though it's spent, has set the world on another path.

You were ready to go and I was not ready to lose you.

Return to the sea that you loved and fair sailing to whatever lies ahead.