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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take note...

You've perhaps noticed that I haven't been around here lately

I've been up to my eyeballs (and then some) in life and work

(this is my newest promo head shot --- looking up! ) 

the life part, while interesting to me, is not overly blog-worthy

but the WORK part --- ahhhhhh well.... 

This weekend I will be part of the Noted Festival in Canberra sharing 

#LookUP - a collaborative work with poet Melinda Smith. 

 #LookUP started its life as my daily moment of sky time which I shared right here every day of 2015.... the project then grew into something else when Melinda wrote the most exquisite words in response to each  (and I can say that because I have read each of her jewel-like responsive micro poems)... And THEN the project took another turn when we came together to discuss what might become of our pictures and words... a published book? an artist's book? e-book? self-published affair? a poetry reading? a slideshow? (actually Melinda DID do a poetry reading/slideshow from the work last year, even before the year ended -- called 'all the seventeenths' she presented the picture/poem combination from the 17th day of each month... it was delicious and buckets of fun) or maybe we could do something else? 

As we bounced ideas off each other we soon both came to fall in love with the idea of individual postcards (perhaps of our favourite pieces?) -- and before long that idea rapidly grew into a series that contained a postcard for every. single. pic/poem combo.  

oh myyyyyyyyyy!

(here's the very last cards we've printed -- and its my favourite -- 'intermission' from the halfway mark in the look up project) 

But that didn't seem enough for us 

no --- we both liked the idea of projecting the works, 

and one of us (I'm not going to say who.... ) 

got the bright idea of projecting the works onto the ceiling (someone shoot me!) 

for the past few months I've been preparing 366 little pieces of individual artwork 

(and painfully loading each one to the press... shoot me!)

as well as making a projection piece

(shoot me!)

I think the hard work has been worth it....

(I have spent more time than I care to mention staring at computer monitors over the past few months)

Both the #LookUP projection piece and #LookUP postcard series 

will premiere this Sunday, March 20 at Gorman House, Canberra 

as part of the Noted Festival 

and Noted Independent Publishers Fair. 

If you are in Canberra - be sure to drop by and say hello

(first tech trials of #LookUP --- what a challenge each little bit of this has been)

 #LookUP and look out for cobwebs! 

this is the final home trial before the on site tech trials start.... 

at least I can leave home knowing that my 'interesting' rig for holding a projector in a vertical position works a treat

We hope that #LookUP will appear at a few other spaces/events this year

(very soon we are creating a little online space to showcase our #LookUP postcard series) 

in the meantime you can follow the news on our dedicated IG account  

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