the LOST city....

went to Darwin for recent exhibition with my friends
Emma Stocker and Colin Holt....
it was called The LOST City
you can check out some stuff in the link over there ------->

After being chewed up and spat out by Darwin
earlier this year
I returned feeling this journey may be the end
and completion of that time...

I arrived to a heavy blanket
complex, dense and layered
but
balmy, alive and endless
an edgy battleground of love and hate
simultaneous homesickness for the town that has been home
and loathing at the same time to get me out of there

funny...
all things considered, it is an amazing place
the show was great, drank to much red wine
met a Philippino shaman
sat in an over-sized government air conditioner (aka the CHAN building)
talked about art
made new drawings and studies of scungy Darwin surfaces
and sunsets
as always...

i am nostalgic...and yet, do not miss it...
so there...

here's some snaps...

beach bits

while we are talking about trips to the beach and stuff

this is me local...

i go there often to pretend i am a rock

or to pretend that i am the sky

then i find treasure

or light or soemthing lovely
have found lots of rusty stuff

but ususally just like looking

at how it all fits together

and the reddy reds of red

you know about red

some people like green

but i think i am a red person

y'all have to come to darwin cos its warm and lovely and we have pawpaw

and can camp in back yard

but no wool sorry.....

poetics of idiocy

when you have a red wall

and someone graffitis it

not sure why you cover it with white

but me loves it

think they look better than

blah red wall

strange happenings

I have a query........

hmmm seems like interesting things happen at my house! though i am sure there is a logical solution to it.

I had previously dyed some cotton with a local plant known as colour tree (pictured above), coeleospermum reticulatum, which turned the fabric a lush yellow colour (see above). Somehow one piece of this fabric ended up being chucked irreverently into my shower sopping up all the soap and shampoo bits.

Anyway the end result was i noticed it looked slightly different, took it outside (my shower is dark) and low and behold.....it had turned red!

I love colour tree; it is amazing...I know when I lived out bush that to get red you add coconut ash (there I guess I answered me own questions) however, I guess I wonder if soap can be used instead of ash to create the same effects?? Not sure, it would seem a lot less painful to chuck in some lux flakes in a dye bath than make a fire and collect the ashes. I love making fires, but my neighbours probably hate the smoke and it's hard to get motivated to get out of town....

Also the name for this tree out bush is milwakwak, which literally translated means mil = eye, wakwak = crow, eye of the crow. Which I didn't understand until one day I looked at the berries...when they get old they turn dark black with a white dot in the middle, looking just like the eye of the crow.

Anyway musings musings....