art gesture sunday - week 52...

one volume of Encyclopaedia Britannica,
one candle in a jar, one cross

Cobargo Cemetery

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the end of the year is nigh...

Earlier this week 

 we were treated to this...

(click to embiggen)

No - the dramatic scene was not a harbinger for the end of the world as the Mayans predicted....  but it IS almost the end of the year - and what a year its been!

With family, friends, farm, garden, and of course arrrrrt - the year has been filled to the brim with the good and the bad - great frustrations and (fortunately) with even greater small joys.

I'm not one to dwell on the frustrating and icky bits (perhaps the MOST frustrating this year has been dealing with bureaucracy gone bonkers.... you know how it is!) --  I prefer to concentrate on the small joys: growing, eating and selling surplus garden vege (the garden is always a place of both frustration and joy); the return of our chicken flock; the addition of Honey-Hound to our family; finding out that our creek farm is a lyrebird haven; family happenings like the wedding of our gorgeous niece; the May opening of Sams Creek bookworks (phew - what a big effort that was!)...

Best of all has been watching our kidlets blossom as uniquely wonderful little creatures...

and

Can you believe that I'm just one post away from a whole year of small art gestures?
(yep this Sunday is week 52). 

 

 (who can remember which week each of these appeared?)

The year-long series has been pivotal in the continued development of my arts practice, and subsequently to my ongoing Higher Degree...  no doubt I'll talk a whole lot more about this as 2013 unfolds - my exegesis is due for submission in May and my examination exhibition has already been scheduled at Switchback Gallery in August - gulp! I see lots and lots of study and arty work in my immediate future!

Talking about plans for 2013.... wellllllll other than those arty/study deadlines, I'm keen to get that netting over our orchard (take that you pesky little fruit-thieving birds!); I'm planning to hold another bookworks open day in May; I've got notions about remaking a nice pond in the garden; and the kidlets will no doubt be keeping us insanely busy with all their sporting activities (oh boy - where did these little sportsters come from?)....

But first thing I've got those BAO projects to complete!

Happy New Year ya'll



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'we wish you a booky christmas'...

six green books, one red book,
seven book page stars and thumbtacks

makes for one art gesture book tree!
 the centrepiece for my 2012 handmade christmas card

see....

** I'm a bit behind in getting all my handmade chrissy cards out to folk this year ...

and anyway - there are many more of you that I share notes & bloggy bits with 
and I never get to send you a personal card... 

le sigh

SO

from me to you

 I hope you have a wonderful christmas 

and a spectacular new year
(its been great catching up in this bloggy space eh?!)

 

xxxxx

  

 

art gesture sunday - week 51...

one page from a Readers Digest novel 

pamphlet bound with horse hair 

taken from found birds nest

cupped in the nest-finder's hands

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production line...

I'm madly trying to get my second (of three) BAO editions completed by the new year 

yesterday was a flurry of printing

today has been filled with trimming, scoring, folding and collating

here's a sneaky peek of what I've been working on 

for BAO edition 4, group 3...

the little pages are waiting for the next bit -
the collating and assembly of the inner gizzards of the book

(I'm convinced that 'gizzards' should be a book term....)

time to get my nose back to the grindstone!

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art gesture sunday - week 50...

On the 12th day of the 12th month in the 12th year of the twenty first century...

family and friends gathered on the windy beach 

to witness the marriage of our gorgeous niece - T.N.
to her wonderful man - M.E.

I commemorated the moment with a red-edged book

then capture the spirit of the day on the beach...

one red edged book

Camel Rock, Bermagui

one bride, one groom

one happy gathering of family and friends

12.12.12

Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope  

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a zine in the works...

I'm putting the finishing touches on a large pile of small zines...

and will do a big reveal (and an even bigger giveaway)

very very soon

I promise


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art gesture sunday - week 49...

 

book midden

on the creek bed confluence of Sams and Narira creeks

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do not disturb...

I'm hard at 'work' in the studio....

thinking and playing and playing and thinking 

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on a roll...

I'm currently working on a second small book edition for BAO

things are going surprisingly quite well....

this is a little something I'm currently fiddling with 

in response to the title 'knowledge' 

I've got a few images and the book form kinda sorted already

stay tuned for more developments....

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art gesture sunday - week 48...

'Cassell's Modern Encyclopaedia'

a mother's gift - 1941

wrapped in a ball of my handspun tussah silk from 1991

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