bencke corner

trevor dickinson mural

2011-07-30T16:03:00.001+10:00

on the way to Newcastle Beach from the city is a little tunnel taking pedestrians under the road to pop out right at the beachside...
there has been a mural on either side of this tunnel for years; but the predominate colour seemed to be black, making it dark inside...

in steps trevor dickinson with his awesome drawing and painting skills, and his humour.
it is now light, bright and exciting in this tunnel.

the ufo and superman silhouettes are a nice small touch..
you have to be really looking to notice them, they are very small details (to give an idea of scale: the ufo is that small smudge to the right above the 'showering' person)

dead birds

2011-07-29T16:25:00.000+10:00

there have been very big oceans recently... and when the tides recede the detritus left behind on the shores is usually pretty shaming.
so much plastic.

but these two birds were also amongst it all.

2011-07-01T19:10:00.001+10:00

door rock
made with:
one pacific ocean rock
two cotton crocheted doilies.

this is a new idea for a door-stop.
not too heavy to move around, yet enough weight to hold a standard door open.
the crochet protects parquet flooring and other smooth flooring materials from being scratched by the rock.

2011-06-30T19:08:00.003+10:00

instructional design is everywhere when you start noticing it.
it is one of the areas of design that requires simplicity and clarity to achieve success.
which is why this sign on my local bus is so amusing.

vacate seat for an injured person, ok fine.
vacate seat for an elderly or less mobile person, but is she dancing ?
and vacate seat for a ....? what is that female representing?

is she obese?
is she itchy?
is she pregnant?

was the designer having a joke...who designed this?
i would really love to know.

2011-06-04T16:42:00.001+10:00

dead bird...
found in the park early one morning on those very first cold clear windy days.
it looked as though it had just fallen straight out of the tree.
frozen.

2011-06-01T16:29:00.000+10:00

this was an accidental project...
it started as an idea that i could commission AB to make one for a friend's new baby.
then i started getting involved and found that i was making it myself. i've never tended towards patchwork... it just seemed too crazy to stitch all those tiny squares together by hand.

but it became strangely addictive and meditative to be doing something repetitive.

2011-05-30T08:19:00.002+10:00

this cafe, good brother, opened quite recently.
revitalising a very dead part of king street...then a couple of weeks later this new crochet yarn bombing made its way on to the street sign post.
it's the small things that make the city feel lived in again.

2011-04-06T12:17:00.003+10:00

these old bottles were found in the old dairy shed at a family property on the weekend.
not sure if they have anything to do with the running of the dairy, it is full of old junk and rusting machinery, so these are probably cast off from some other work.
they've been languishing in that old shed for decades.

of course they cleaned up well and are now gleaming on my kitchen shelf.
the lids are even in working order.
though perhaps not for food storage?

two of them have MASON'S embossed on the glass.
the other reads TRADE MARK LIGHTNING
what did they contain?...
how old are they/...

if you have any idea please leave a comment.

2011-03-30T13:37:00.000+11:00

the scene from our inner city apartment. the beach is just beyond these buildings.
the light was perfect for only a few seconds... the colour of that new Sebel wall looked beautiful against the sky...and then there is all the construction work going on behind the old morgue.
great contrasts with the delicate sky.

broken in three

2011-03-15T13:26:00.001+11:00

broken!

felicity gleeson made this gorgeous bangle.
it is parts of an old doily embedded in resin, which is perfectly clear and magnifies the textures colour and details of the yarn.

somehow i don't think gluing is going to do any favours for this beautiful piece.

if you are reading this miss felicity.... i need to visit any stocks you may have!!

citrus season

2011-03-12T13:41:00.006+11:00

sundays are often when i remember the wonderful centenary centre on the harbour side of city.
it is often just to browse around and look at everything but for nothing in particular.

today's mission was a citrus press.

preferably not plastic.
but not the standard glass dish style ones either. without a clue what other design or way of squeezing oranges their might be (apart from the press/crush ones in fashion which J managed to break too easily with unwitting strength), i though this place was a good start.
after looking for a while at all the glass dish squeezers and one very beautiful green glass one with a jug below to catch the juice (much too expensive)...

...i found this perfect solution.

it is a 1940's piece, made from ceramic
very sturdy and perfect to use sitting over a cup to juice.

...and the autumn/winter oranges are on their way!

2011-03-05T13:31:00.001+11:00

after a long break from any posts during summer it is time to be inspired again.

the colour of these aubergines is hard to reproduce in digital form, the texture and deep gloss of the skins are so much part of the pigment.
it is hard not to be inspired to at least cook these vegetables.
they are straight from our community garden... although small they are delicious.
like anything pick on the day from an organic garden they taste so much better than their homogenised sisters.

2011-01-22T11:52:00.002+11:00

TOMS shoes are the creation of Blake Mycoskie.
the basic idea is business meets philanthropy... for each pair of shoes purchased, another pair are given to a child in need in various countries of the world.
one for one

great idea
great shoes

2010-12-30T18:43:00.002+11:00

looks better with the crochet finished all the way to the ground.
this resurrected crochet lasted at least for the first evening of the Red Lantern Markets...it was no where to be found this time; and there are too many bins to go searching in.

2010-12-24T14:57:00.002+11:00

....

2010-11-18T08:29:00.001+11:00

organic
blueberries
eaten straight from the tree

2010-11-16T08:10:00.000+11:00

the blanket is finally finished.

all those squares of knitting!
all sixty six
all that procrastination over how to join them together...
all that crochet
all those mistakes

2010-11-01T13:19:00.003+11:00

bollard crochet

it lasted in place for maybe 10 mins? 1 hr? 10hrs?
well who knows.
but twelve hrs later it was definitely off.

2010-10-31T12:59:00.003+11:00

this knitting was sewn on to the bike parking bollard outside estabar (cafe) a few months back, the wool colours are so bright and lovely here, and wet from a big late winter down pour.

2010-10-23T19:11:00.002+11:00

these statues of sydney have been 'dressed' by a group of artist for sydney event art & about 2010

see the blog for more amazing images of the sydney statues: project!

2010-10-21T13:47:00.002+11:00

I was just remembering this library in Paris to someone earlier this week.
i've only been there once, but i'm sure it would be a great library to live near. not only for the amazing collection of books, but also the setting you have to read them in.

the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand is the architectural work of frenchman Dominique Perrault.

2010-10-03T12:43:00.001+11:00

installation from a work shop held by artist
tully arnot

2010-10-03T12:37:00.000+11:00

the much loved zine fair
a special TINA event part of the young writers festival

2010-10-03T12:36:00.000+11:00

2010-10-01T12:31:00.000+10:00

letterboxes of newcastle by
trevor dickinson

some new paste-ups around town.
TINA additions to brighten some ugly blank walls.
perfect.

2010-09-30T12:23:00.000+10:00

the lock-up exhibition opening, featuring works by three artists; samuel bruce, charlie penrose and electrofringe/lock-up artist-in-residence dale gorfinkel.

this is not art
newcastle 2010

2010-09-29T14:07:00.003+10:00

riding for all occasions...
why do most of us in australia think we have to wear ugly 'pratical' footware to ride our bikes!

i've just been looking at the cycle chic blog.
these are some of the images i found there!

if only we in australia could enjoy the freedom to ride without a helmet...

now i really do need to learn how to crochet.
my yellow bike is nolonger complete with out one of these skirtguards
hand made in the netherlands by simeli

2010-09-28T14:28:00.001+10:00

my yellow bike made it into the photo!

these images are the final result from the creative tim neve.
they are now on the lost at e minor blog for all to see.

first up is zac zavos, one of the creative founders of lost at e minor;
then gillian bencke (your truly) from her label bencke;
and then tim mcphee, one of the members of the band firekites.

all of us newcastle dwellers

2010-09-27T16:17:00.002+10:00

a great image from wong during her travels...
this one is new york
they are all beautiful photographs
have a look now

2010-09-27T15:05:00.006+10:00

new collars
there are now a few available in my online shop...
they'll be going off to The Olive Tree Markets this saturday too.
some more in the process this week.

2010-09-25T10:39:00.003+10:00

shoes to bring in spring!
they've been blogged on the lost at e minor site a while back.

meow floral lace-ups, designed by jeffery campbell

2010-09-22T12:25:00.001+10:00

trying out the white collar...
it is going to be used in a photoshot this morning.
tim neve has the job through lost at e minor, and the final results will be live next week on lost at e minor.

2010-09-19T12:23:00.001+10:00

the tassles on the elm tree at 'greenways' are always the first stage of the spring garden.
the whole tree humms from dawn to dusk with the sound of bees.
thousands of them.

the other half of the image is a green moth?

2010-09-08T12:22:00.001+10:00

dead bird in pacific park in early spring
pacific park
newcastle east

2010-08-18T09:35:00.003+10:00

i have just unearthed the memory of this project
these images are now 5 years old and they never got to be displayed in the way they were intended. more on that soon.

the project brief:
12 bencke dolls from the exhibition 'A Crowd' were given to 12 people to have for 1 to 2 weeks.
during this period they were asked to take photos of their assigned doll while going about their weekly routine.
the three images above are taken of the doll 'daisy'.

it was quite an amazing compilation of images by the end of the 2 weeks, the dolls had been showered in attention judging by fun in the 'holiday' photos.

next came the arranging in chronological order of all the images into PowerPoint.
after many late nights the final presentation was ready and launch just in time for the TINA (This Is Not Art) festival in sept/oct 2005.

we set up the projector and screened the 'Travels In Time' in the window of High Tea with Mrs Woo on darby street newcastle.
it was up for all of half an hour after we'd locked up and gone home for much wanted sleep.
some !*$#&@% hacked the back door down and stole the whole kit: computer, projector and all the hours and hours of work.

no back up for lost computer files, no finger prints. no 'Travels In Time'.

until then i've really not known what to do with the cd's of images.

maybe i'll put them all into a blog of their own.
after 5 years, perhaps it's time.

2010-07-31T08:37:00.002+10:00

apparently it is considered good luck to find a four leaf clover...
but what happens when you find eight! (not all pictured)
and even then one of them is not only with four leaves but five, and looking to divide into six with another one perhaps beginning in the centre...
so potentially a seven leaf clover.

all from the same plant.

without searching for them.

2010-07-29T12:53:00.000+10:00

a new knitted street sign pole.
this time in watt street.

2010-07-20T10:25:00.002+10:00

australian artist louise weaver work is a new discovery for me.
the detail and skill is breathtaking.
these three pieces here are all taxidermied birds which have been deliactely croched over and embelished even more.
how could you improve on the peacock! but here it is with its amazing croched 'suit'...i particularly like the little peep holes that reveal the beautiful 'eye' of the peacock's feather underneath.

2010-07-09T13:58:00.005+10:00

the exposed service wall of the Great Northern hotel due to a blank neighbouring lot in the last stages of demolition.
it's a crazy network that is quite exquisite in its intricate ugliness.

at the moment the very run down pub and hotel is undergoing huge referbishment.
from what can be found out it's a slow process.
but for now there is a new feel to the place with it open again for all sorts of events and menues.
next weekend is the monthly markets in the pub, this month it is fine food.

2010-07-02T16:14:00.003+10:00

i will have a stall at The Olive Tree Markets again this saturday 3rd July.
if you are in newcastle please come along, it might be cold but it'll be a fun day!

2010-07-01T09:24:00.000+10:00

stay up to date with the collaborative quilt that is to be made from all the patches sewn by 27 crafty ladies & gents. click on the Project Patchwork blog logo above to see it all.

my patch has been sent in and you can see the final result in a previous post here.
this quilt along with others will be raffled off to raise money for the Australian Cambodia Foundation.

Political Interlude from usual posts

2010-06-25T09:16:00.007+10:00

i couldn't resist in celebrating the first day with a new Prime Minister of Australia.
our first female PM!
Julia Gillard takes the leadership role.
an historic day.

a special cartoon from the favourite Leunig.
an iced vovo is the perfect biscuit for the proverbial 'smoko'
the final curtain on Rudd. what a way to go!

2010-06-24T17:02:00.000+10:00

this is another project that is taking up my idle hours...not that there are many.
infact i seem to have become addicted to knitting.
it started off as a way to use up old wool in cluttered cupboards. it quickly blew out into buying wool and searching out colours.
most of the squares were knitted by AB, i am too slow and very much of a beginner to have achieved such a stack. they are waiting to be sewn into a colourful blanket. but first we have to knit the other 40 squares needed!!

2010-06-23T16:51:00.001+10:00

this is the patch i made for the Project Patchwork organized by Lizzy Wilson.
all the crafters, makers, designers involved were given a piece of fabric to tie it all together (the fabric used in the clouds, the whale and one of the hearts).
it has certainly taken up more time than i expected... all my own fault really...but it is hard not to get carried away with something that is different to the every day making.

2010-06-15T15:59:00.005+10:00

what to do with odd bits of wool?

they aren't big enough for anything useful or wearable...
there is always the option of some guerilla knitting
what could be better for the drab streets of a post industrial town.
how long will is last in place? that's the test.

there is a great site here for some inspiring knitting ideas.
might need a team of knitters though!

2010-06-11T10:06:00.005+10:00

two collar blanks.
these ones are sold without any clasp.

they are for the wearer who already has a favourite brooch or badge, or infact a collaction of them.

i've just listed these two on my on-line store.

2010-06-08T10:48:00.002+10:00

after the markets on saturday (which were quiet due to the wet weather weekend)
i have sorted out my stock of brooches, dolls and other designs.
this cushion from my previous post on friday is the first to be released into my on-line store.
more things will follow over the next few days and weeks.

2010-05-29T10:35:00.002+10:00

this is a new cushion made for the olive tree markets in newcastle.
i've been readying stock and organising the designs i want to discontinue and a few i'd like to develop further... then i just wanted to make something that was on my metal plate.
and this is what came out:
it's always a surprise
a good one this time

the cuckoo cushion

but i wish i could have a vision that wasn't always so red!
anything works in this colour, so really not a challenge at all.

the markets are on in one week. 5th june 2010. the weather is looking wet.
not sure if it's a wise thing to be working towards a washout market day.

2010-05-29T10:08:00.000+10:00

i finished three new collars on friday, these ones are each clasped by a vintage badge.
the tuncurry bowling club badge is great colours and design.
what a gem.

these three collars are now on their way down to sydney and will be for sale at Gaffa Gallery along with some other new designs

2010-05-28T10:34:00.004+10:00

this is a morbid friday post.

apologies

it is a little nod to artist friend CW, every time i see a dead bird i think of her recent exhibition at Podspace...
her photographs were beautifully created and framed. all of them found dead animals in the urban and the rural settings. mostly on roads like these poor birds i found.
the foot is the one that can really bring on a whince.

actually i've been photographing dead birds for a while...but the images are mostly buried somewhere in negative form. probably not even printed yet, that was when i developed and printed all my own in black and white film stock.

2010-05-20T08:39:00.002+10:00

Blue 750
by Shi Jindian
wire woven motorcycle and sidecar
2008

it is part of an exhibition called 'the Tao of Now' showing at the White Rabbit Gallery ...
what an amazing scultpure, the technique is something like crochet, from what i can find out. he uses simple custom made hand tools and works right down to the finest details

2010-04-29T13:02:00.000+10:00

1950's wooden pull-along toy dog
espresso cup
new ticket system for cityrail! hooray!
1980's wooden car

2010-04-22T13:27:00.001+10:00

old signage revealed during building demolition in the historic city centre of newcastle.

2010-04-15T19:57:00.002+10:00

door stop.

2010-04-10T19:39:00.002+10:00

this was a good bye gift from jody wong as she left for japan late last year...
usually it's the goer-awayers who receives gifts, not the stayers-behind, but nothing is ever straight forward, especially when ms wong is concerned.

anyway, it wasn't long before there was some travelling of it's own to do...
first is was framed then
carefully packed into a box in another box in a big container to transport from fremantle wa to newcastle nsw along with everything
then it got unpacked
then adjusted in it's frame
then finally hung on the newly owned wall (well, the paint anyway, being strata)
in a cluster of other interested collected pieces (below)

2010-04-02T13:46:00.000+11:00

an old rugby number
+ an off cut from a florence broadhurst print
+ a piece of retro red

= a new seat cover

2010-03-29T13:34:00.002+11:00

two pages of a soft book made for 'a' in NZ
it was inspired by one that was made in the 80's...
the pages were made out of curtain backing material, it has an inbuilt stiffness which is perfect for a book

it is full of texture and as much colour as possible.
rick-rack... i've never before found a decent use for this weird kitschy stuff.
it's kind of appealing and appalling all at once. a very strange haberdashery trim

2010-03-24T14:23:00.003+11:00

these are the sort of details that make a city special...
it is only a vent of course.
but look at the detail...
would the city council/developer/strata committee of today actually take the care to include these kinds of art and design into the final finish of buildings...hummm?

Athcourt building
this little apartment has genuine art deco features in the old bathroom, complete with a terrazzo floor.
what a special find

2010-03-12T13:42:00.005+11:00

the milk jug
the water jug
the sauce jug
the crystal jug
the fat jug
the tall jug
the blue jug ...

the gravy boat

all of these belong to one collection
it grows over years, some of them gifts, some inherited, some bought old or new by alison

after a conversation about the multitudes of jugs in her house and the irresistible shape they have i pulled them all out of their cupboards, shelves and nooks to photograph them all

last count there were 25... but perhaps more

a frontier of jugs

2010-03-10T13:37:00.001+11:00

time
ocean
coffee
magazine ...notebook...pen
thoughts

it's been a while since there has been any of these
today all of them came together

2010-03-02T09:24:00.004+11:00

a confession of my own
i wasn't quick enough to get photos of all the things that city switch completed around the city.
there is one blurry photo of the 'sticky streets' project

2010-02-24T13:03:00.003+11:00

City Switch Lab has just started it's first day of workshops in newcastle.
the introduction and presentations last night were exciting and it feels like a well organised initiative.
i'll post the results after saturday.
until then read more about it at the city switch website and the renew newcastle site

2010-01-29T23:43:00.001+11:00

ok, so this has been done before, much better than i've achieved here too.
but i promised i'd do it, not here in freo, but somewhere down south while camping. but i didn't. even though it was a very long camping trip, it was never the right time. so there they are; now on a very snug elbow of a freo plane tree.
stitching while reaching up is not easy for long...

2010-01-10T23:37:00.001+11:00

seeds from the wattle trees in shannon national park.
they are small and delicate, and hard to collect from the heavy leaf litter... not sure what sort of wattle, there must be hundreds of species in this nationl park alone.

2010-01-04T23:09:00.000+11:00

on and early morning walk this was found in a rock pool. an entire eco system spewed up from the depths to perish in the summer sun...

2010-01-01T23:33:00.001+11:00

on the way out from parry's beach campsite on our way towards peaceful bay we passed these postboxes. a little letterbox village

2009-12-27T12:22:00.001+11:00

2009-12-23T18:11:00.004+11:00

the tip shop
denmark wa, australia

every tip should have one. look at all the wonderful things that get trashed every day of the year....and here in denmark on the south west coast of australia you can come and buy bits and pieces of another persons junk.

it was acually a bit much after a while...but when you have a project in mind, what a great resource to have near by!

2009-12-23T12:13:00.000+11:00

this 1950's round house in mt barker, wa, used to turn around depending on where the sun was, a breeze or favoured view...

in recemt times when a new road was being constructed the house was due to be pulled down to make way...but luckily the heritage council came by and listed it. now it's safe for ever.

2009-12-20T18:11:00.000+11:00

car paste-ups... we realised that the paste up idea would work brilliantly on the car... the theme became 'birds'
it's addictive. any unadorned surface now seems in need of a paste-up

2009-12-17T18:02:00.000+11:00

wildflowers on the windy edge of south wa, just near albany. a very beautiful part of the country

2009-12-15T18:24:00.002+11:00

how is this for a wedding gift!
instead of a platter or a dozen wine glasses how about a branding iron? only the counrty folk could come up with such an awesome gift.

apparently the bride wanted to brand her butt and her new husband advised against it... see there big trip here

fyi, the tree was only toasted on the outer layers of paperbark...it is not an eternal vandalisim as it will peal of without a trace in a few months

2009-12-05T14:15:00.002+11:00

ok, these have been blogged for a few days now, perhaps a week without a word about why or what it's all about. that comes with territory of being on the road with limited access to power and technology.

the paste ups where a last inspired moment of living on wray ave in fremantle... our lovely friends from newcastle (or do they belong to sydney or tamworth? anyway, other nsw troups) came by for a paste up party.

looks much nicer than the old blotchy wall that was there before.

2009-12-03T16:29:00.001+11:00

this is a bowl crocheted from scrape fabric by Robyn Shapiro.
i swapped a doll so i could own one of her creations, and this is what came home.
divine!
Robyn also put together the colourful couch upholstery at Wildpoppy from a few posts ago.

2009-11-23T21:38:00.003+11:00

with some remaining scraps of passed on fabric this old oak chair scores a new colourful cover

2009-11-22T21:34:00.002+11:00

this lawn is apparently registered?... to whom or what it does not say,
but it is very green and lovely looking
although the sign is very unofficial
perhaps it's only irony

2009-11-16T22:48:00.004+11:00

some amazing guerrilla crafting has sprung up in fremantle. someone has crocheted about 16m of wool and stitched it in place along the middle rung of this railing on cnr of wray ave and south tce, right out side the new favourite cafe wild poppy.

2009-11-12T14:19:00.000+11:00

six new camouflage collars for counter at craft victoria sent off on monday. they are part of the white christmas theme this year.

white, bright, crisp, cool, clean

everything that this humid west coast summer day is not!
(well, perhaps clean is the exception. the unusual humidity is due to the rain, so at least all that summer dust will be washed away)

2009-11-11T14:28:00.000+11:00

finally this crocodile handbag has been reappropriated into a more usable design.
it was sent to me a few year ago by a friend in france...apparently she bought it in a porch sale from an old lady who'd had it from a long ago trip to australia.
so it has returned to it's place of origin.

the old handle was quite worn and not of the length i would use.
so i found this sturdy piece of leather and fitted it to the bag, which is in excellent vintage condition.

2009-11-04T19:15:00.004+11:00

here are two images of the installation i put in the window of remedy leederville on sunday.

it took ages to make the back ground!! it's very delicate and difficult to handle. at 1.7 mtrs long it was scary taking it on the train at 7.30am with all the still-up-from-the-night-before travellers staggering home.

2009-11-03T15:00:00.004+11:00

'I'm here'
Remedy footpath gallery Leederville, 2009
rescued fabric, fly screen, vintage buttons & buckles, found objects, paper

2009-10-30T14:16:00.001+11:00

concrete art in a fremantle car park.
how is there no other 'street art' or graffiti all over this graphic arrangement of colour?

2009-10-25T19:49:00.002+11:00

reappropriating old signage into messages.... fremantle

2009-10-15T19:21:00.003+11:00

this is the rye starter j has been cultivating since monday. it's been overfeed by the looks of it and escaping from the jar...sourdough tonight... yum!

2009-10-14T11:37:00.000+11:00

mates of state poster by the small stakes, such great designers

2009-10-11T17:56:00.002+11:00

j started making some wooden blocks out of old ply-wood off cuts.
four widths of 16mm ply makes this block a 64mm cube

2009-10-10T23:58:00.003+11:00

footpath mosaic...south fremantle

2009-10-05T21:37:00.001+11:00

kangaroo paw & burnt out stump...finally went for a walk in the morning to kings park to see the wild flowers

2009-09-30T23:54:00.002+10:00

wildpoppy opens, on the cnr of wray ave & south tce, fremantle ...we've been walking past this cafe for a while now, waiting for the new owners to take down the newspaper from the windows and reveal the work done... well worth the wait. it has been transformed into a beautiful space. the colourful lounge set are the favourites. right next to the double seater is a big basket of beautiful wool and knitting needles...and all the magazines are the latest issue!

2009-09-29T10:59:00.000+10:00

'blessed are they who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diet'

2009-09-27T11:11:00.002+10:00

a sky can never look the same in a photograph...but anyway, here is this one, sunday afternoon, just on dusk...

2009-09-18T10:43:00.004+10:00

owl patch made for d. there was a tear in the wool on the back of the jumper that prompted the thought of patching rather than just an ordinary mend job, so d asked for it to be embelished...an owl seemed the obvious choice... hope she agrees...

2009-09-02T10:37:00.000+10:00

mustard camouflage collar ...production time... how many things can be sewn in under a fortnight?

2009-08-20T11:20:00.003+10:00

the octave
a new obsession with letters. not sure how many alphabets i could stuff with bits of fabric...takes so much longer than expected ... for now it's nice to just have the octave

2009-08-18T11:17:00.001+10:00

a new variation on the 'butterlie with cloud'...now with the heart on a string or rather, chain
starting to make a few of these for new outlets...updates soon

2009-08-15T10:56:00.000+10:00

capel beach, wa...they are not rocks buy an amazing accumulation of winter's seaweed. a transient (if a little smelly) seaweed scape...it is gathered on the beach with the winter currents and by summer it will all be gone

textures and sea creatures

2009-08-03T16:03:00.006+10:00

the brooch of Claude (the Bird)... this piece was made for the very wonderful store Claude (the Bird).
it has taken well over half a year to finally get him made (a lot of deliberating, intervening responsibilities and various other delays...like a mountain between me and the sewing machine)...ahh phew...he has gone on his merry way and now lives in armadale, melbourne.

2009-07-17T16:00:00.003+10:00

op-shop barbies. quite a sickening scene. naked and discarded.

2009-07-12T16:28:00.002+10:00

couldn't resist posting another four sketches of jody wong. these now belong to my own art collection.

2009-07-10T15:54:00.002+10:00

j was given these on friday. beautiful old french paper puzzels in a box. each one comes in it's own separate envelope