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high up in the trees
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A place for recent things seen and recent things found. A place to show you new collages and to air new likes. A place to share with you.
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Of a feather.

{Louise's A beating of wings (i) and (ii) in hand.}It seems Agatha and Bertie are the best of friends. One green, the other blue, they sit upon the branch, side by side, preening one another. He...

3 days ago

Pining for the spontaneity of old times.

{Good company awaits.}Dear you, The monthly meetings drag on and on and I wonder how ever it is I can reverse the process, wind back to a time before our hook-ups became regimented affairs. Pining fo...

5 days ago

A reduced palette.

{Waiting for you in Spain.} {If you were here you would hear me crying.}Emerging some three plus hours into a dark wet night having forgotten myself in the brilliant William Kentridge survey exhibiti...

27 may 12

Half-time jellied oranges.

{Nothing changed since last I was here.}Dear you, After much searching, I’ve found the perfect after-hours roller-skating rink for our tournaments in Sweden. The third door by the back stairs of the ...

23 may 12

Intended for writing and mailing without an envelope.

{From Fanja. Thank-you. Your Lewis slides down the bannister and into a new land.}One of the things I love about blogging today is one of the things I loved about blogging when I began in January 200...

20 may 12

Foursome Friday.

{Four new cards. With rainfall and thunder close behind, Guiding me home, I enjoy your company, and You're in my sights.}At last, she cried. New cards, four of them, are available through our on...

18 may 12

A different pattern.

{Gioachino Rossini}In conscious shake-up of pattern, last night I went to the opera, to see Elijah Moshinsky’s production of The Barber of Seville (opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini). With a lit...

16 may 12

Manufacturing a rough sea.

{Manufacturing a rough sea.}Dear you,If I were to knock upon my neighbours’ door I should not be surprised if it were answered by an elephant upon an earth compactor. I would not an eyelid bat at wha...

09 may 12

Delight.

{Two dancers on rollerskates at New York World's Fair (1939-1940). Image credit: The New York Public Library}The State Library of New South Wales has just purchased several of our artists’ books...

08 may 12

I plant a wet kiss upon your cheek.

{And the bellowing echoed so that I thought my head would split open wide.}Dear you,I am pretty certain that when Gene Kelly sang about those raindrops that kept falling on his head in some sort of &...

06 may 12

"Umwelt"

{Miss Minnie's in pursuit.} {Enjoying the crunch underfoot.} {Innocent wintertime pursuits.} {This could well be it.} {In the distance and the glare, I'd mistaken you for family.}Before the...

03 may 12

A lion once fell in love.

{Guiding me home.} {I enjoy your company.} {With rainfall and thunder close behind. Featuring a Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) you may have met before.} {You're in my sights.}The lion long has ...

01 may 12

Velicate, drift, glide, and sing.

{The same as it ever was.}Dear you, 'Slacks'? Really, 'slacks' is the word not the item of clothing that for one week the New Yorker have cheekily said no to? Of all the words I d...

30 apr 12

Have you time to help me decide?

{Please click to enlarge, if needs be.}Dear you, I’ve a favour to ask. It’s quite big, but not so big as to send you scurrying to the hills. As Bathsheba Everdene wrote to Gabriel Oak when faced with...

27 apr 12

For Natalie.

{I gave them back their hearts broken. Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison. Collage. 2012.}Natalie from the University of Ballarat sent the following questions to Louise and me.Q: How did you first bec...

25 apr 12

Le Rocher Blues...

{Recalling an earlier sadness.}Dear you, Today, if ever was there a day, seems one to keep the words of Nikolai Gogol in mind. “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it b...

24 apr 12

Of curious dreams...

{Of curious dreams.}Dear you, The autumn finds me preparing to hibernate. Summer tucked away, I am early to bed and early to rise, making most of the light by day and chill by night. I am skimming th...

23 apr 12

Depart. Some wildness. Return.

{My Mum sends me a photo of a photocopy in which there features at its heart, my Dad. Her iPad is her reliable camera.}As I wait for my parents to return from their wild and sound filled, colour soak...

20 apr 12

That green clearing.

{I would not swap this patch of blue-flowered luck, not for you, not ever.} {I've been down to the river to see our endeavours safe home.} {Banashing clouds in Kew.}The best and only way I know ...

16 apr 12

After this romantic excursion.

{Details from my artists' book, This is where the dormouse lives.}My friends, this second peep at This is where the dormouse lives completes the cover to guts tour. This individual King Penguin ...

12 apr 12

The Wonderful Easter.

{Catherine with her iPhone captures a rare sporting moment on a Good Friday.}Prokofiev; Mother Goose; a close shave crossing the road; cobwebs in the hair; an exhibition of collage at the Counihan Ga...

10 apr 12

Done and dusted, well and truly.

{And we are done. Artists' books wrapped. Prints wrapped. Home calls.}Because taking down a show is never a happy thing, the song playing repeatedly in my head as we prepare to and commence dism...

04 apr 12

Sunday splinters and wicked sprites.

{Omar, in one of his favourite spots, warm inside the (unplugged) dryer.}For some, Sunday passed by without a hitch and as it so often does. Why, it was only recently I spoke of pets dear and their f...

01 apr 12

Holding the moon, almost...

Dear you, Holding the moon, almost. Holding it in a parenthesis made by my inward curving horns. Holding it thus, for a little while at least, just to please you, to make the corners of your mouth ki...

28 mar 12

The year is 2002.

We are in Vienna. We are in Berlin. We have with us two suitcases of artists' books.+ Flickering visions (The past. Yes, We've been here before.)Further Monday links to peruse at your leisu...

25 mar 12

Until astonishment fades...

Dear you, Feeling truly master of all I survey as the sun sinks low on horizon and I hear only bird cry in the distance. I plan to stay on here, living in this realm idyllic, or at any rate, until as...

22 mar 12

Computer network fail.

{Good camouflage is often hard to find.} {Keeping the light low.}“You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone” is not a sentiment I expected to feel in relation to the Internet or rather its absen...

20 mar 12

Speaking, nattering, chattering.

{Photos taken by Shelley McDermott, Latrobe Regional Gallery. (Thanks Shelley.)}A fortnight ago, Louise and I drove to Morwell to give a talk about our work. These photos, taken by Shelley McDermott,...

19 mar 12

I am not a Luddite; I have a blog.

{Guarded (I).} {Guarded (II).}Yesterday my twitter feed, that link to the outside world, that ever-changing stream of news and likes and fragmented conversations peppered with photos and YouTube hila...

15 mar 12

Unvarying.

{Olive is not a fan of the camera.}consistent |kənˈsistənt|adjective(of a person, behavior, or process) unchanging in achievement or effect over a period of time : the sleeping processes of pets requ...

14 mar 12

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