noted...

look! 

its April already!

and I haven't been back here to tell you all how much I enjoyed presenting 

the collaborative project 

#LookUP 

at Noted 2016

here's a scrappy little pic of the #LookUP project table at the independent publishers fair

(the drawers from my wonky little depression era chest were just perfectly sized for our card series)

 and here's the lovely Melinda Smith giving the one minute overview of the project 

(gosh didn't our table get unruly! 

there were so many people pouring over the work - things got a bit all over the place)

meanwhile, in a darkened small room not very far away 

I was ensconced for most of the day, supposedly making sure the projector/computer/etc behaved itself 

for the debut of our ceiling projection....

ooo how I wish I had managed to get a photo of our space --- 

just days before the work was to be presented Melinda did a reckie 

and noticed that the ceiling in the space was totally useless for a projection  

- there was a fan, 2 enormous fluoro lights and lined boards.... 

EEEEEEK! 

panic!!!

 not to be defeated, 

Melinda and I rapidly built our own little space within the space -- 

using a garden gazebo, steel buckets with creek rocks, stretched painters drop cloth 

and lots and lots of squishy pillows! 

it all turned out marvellously 

 I spent almost all the day talking to lovely folk 

who were all reclining on squishy cushions and looking up 

and Melinda spent almost all the day talking to lovely folk 

dropping by the table at the indie publishing fair

FUN! 

(but utterly exhausting..... )

and then it was time to pull it all down and drive home and home again....

soon we hope to find an online space to share some of the printed cards.... 

I keep telling you how wonderful the poetry is so 

I really really REALLY will have to SHOW you what I mean.

(how's this for serendipity -- 

I reached into the box of 366 cards and pulled out the card of the projected piece above) 

(#LookUP 213 aka Saturday 1st August) 

ps if you'd like to see more from #LookUP or other arty things I'm currently up to

drop by instagrammaland 

lookupproject or book_ronnie

seeya! 

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