interwoven...

  oh gosh

so slack

spending time hanging out in instagrammaland

instead of here

and then there have been Very Big Life things to deal with

but I managed to get a couple of things completed for this group show...

 which is still open at Spiral Gallery in Bega
(I think? see... I'm not paying much attention)

I put together a box of double-sided printed postcards
from what I'm referring to as the 'bound knowledge' series

(yes I'll post all 8 designs shortly -
hint - they have all been posted on my insta feed if you'd like to take a looksee)

 I also created 2 sculptural booky pieces for the show....

 (a wee detail)

  (another wee detail)

'Tacit Knowledge'

 Tacit Knowledge: repurposed bible, hand-twined string, crocheted cotton,
found feather, dried seed pod, cows tail hair, metal sprocket, glass.

"Tacit knowledge is the kind of knowledge
that is difficult to transfer to another person
by means of writing it down or verbalizing it."*
Riding a bike, knitting, making bread,
playing a musical instrument, speaking a language
are all examples of tacit knowledge.

'Explicit knowledge'

Explicit knowledge: repurposed bible, hand-twined string, found feathers, 

satin ribbon, metal washers, metal sprocket, glass.

 

 "Explicit knowledge is knowledge that can be readily articulated,
codified, accessed and verbalized.
It can be easily transmitted to others.
Most forms of explicit knowledge can be stored in certain media.
The information contained in encyclopedias and textbooks
are good examples of explicit knowledge."*

 

 installation plinth view

 

opening night pundits at 'interwoven'

 

*(thank you wiki)

far enough...

I've been invited to exhibit alongside ANU field studies peeps in 

'Far Enough. 

Aesthetic responses to the Far South Coast, NSW'

at the Bega Valley Regional Gallery
September 30 - November 4 2011

here's a sneaky (detail of sorts) of what I'll be showing....

more to follow in the fullness of time....




...

thinking, doing, being a farmer's wife....

I've been finding it difficult to try to post something with so much other 'stuff' on my mind.....

Like worry for the folk in Japan - as if it's not enough to contend with earthquake and tsunami and after-shocks ... everything about the unfolding 'drama' at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is just gob-smackingly dreadful.....


dreadful

(now is not the time to go into the pros and cons and blips and blops of nuclear anything - but I will say - I've long been a NO NUKES girlie.... enough said)

Like many of you, my thoughts are with everyone in Japan.... may your country and people heal quickly.

My thoughts are also on a HUGE project closer to home....

Over the past few months a large structure has emerged on my partner's farm.... (some of my bloggy friends from have been following the progress of the project over here) - but here's a brief pictorial for everyone else....

yes - you guessed right - it's a damn big dairy

 this is my farming man
checking out the pit in his brand spanking new 20-a-side, swing-over herringbone dairy
(no I don't feel confident rattling that off... I hope I got it right)

 I have spent so many sleepless nights over the past couple of years thinking and worrying about this project (but worry is not very productive eh?)..... So when the project started back in October last year - I headed off to complete my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) - and this way I imagined I might have a positive and practical way of being involved.... whilst also remaining absolutely true to my beliefs in a greener, more sustainable, holistic way of undertaking farm/life.... (it remains to be seen how things will go.... and how I'll cope with the early mornings... I don't have much longer to wait until I find out - FP expects to be milking the new girls in just over a weeks time..... GULP!)


Last weekend I set up a small book piece in the pristine dairy pit...

(no one every said being a farmer's wife would be easy..... but my man also says - it's not so easy being partner to an artist either... especially when I have the tendency to do things like this!)


.....

boating...

Up at 4.30am to drive over to Bermagui

I launched my collection of origami encyclopaedia boats in a little waterway at low tide...

go forth my little boats..... 

 

discover new country....

but the flotilla seemed more comfortable hugging the shore...

 maybe the very big boats made them nervous....

 some simply could not cope with the pressure and rapidly sank to the bottom...

in a couple of hours time we are returning to the little waterway with the prawning net

and the kids and I will gather the fleet together

bring it home and compost the remains...

for now the odd bystander may or may not notice the collection 

bobbing up and down, listing, 

dashing themselves against the rocks,

sinking...

(hmmmm... surprisingly like me really!)

**update**
we're all cleaned up now
(I KNEW there was a reason for having kiddies - my own private slave labour force!
they had a blast climbing over the rocks, finding and collecting the spent paper boats)

....

play...

Only two days until I have to install 'codex interruptum' 

(eeek)

I have other deadlines and pressing things all vying for my immediate attention

like my entry for Sculpture on the Edge

which is why today I found myself doing a fake (mini) install of work on my hall wall....

‘panton volvit plenus orbis’ – (everything turns full circle)
installation of coptic bound circular 'book' forms
created from reclaimed atlases
dimensions variable

I'm going to be one of the speakers at the SotE sculpture symposium - March 6

the topic for the day is: 

'Monumental vs Ephemeral :
The Changing Face of Sculpture'

no prizes for guessing what side I'm representing!

.....

ex libris... in the works

I've been working my way into my giant pile of books - and starting to make something of them....




I'll show and share a little bit more of what I'm up to here in a short while....