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The Shrine of the Artist
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My kitchen, a vintage phone niche filled with brushes, pencils, pens. And a spike for all the unpaid bills, when they get paid.
Xmas Tree 2019
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This was the Xmas tree this year, no funds ready to go and buy one (and, really, why? But friends and the kids were giving me grief, they wanted it "Christmasy", so I pointed at the many boxes of raw materials and suggested they all go to town.
Voila! Note, I take no credit for this, other than the raw materials, and for the general disinterest in the season that suggested if you wanted it here you were going to be creating it yourself...
All pieces from my bookshelf, old toy boxes, found objects, mixed media...
The Xmas Sweater
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Spotted this in a thrift shop, definitely an "office party" special, which almost makes me wish I had an office party to go to...
Maybe I'll just wear it to interviews...
The DreamTime
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Most of the tradition is lost in translation and obfuscated by our culture, but you can give it a shot and try to imagine their worldview:
https://downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/pdf/elkinjan1937.pdf
https://www.aiprinc.org/aboriginal/
I find curious the suggestion that they communicated over great distances using telepathy, although this is almost (*) certainly due to 1 or 2 sources being repeated again and again.
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