{A cat with inky and irregular spots. (Please click to see a little larger.)}
You viewed the menagerie in the green grass yesterday and today I have assembled them for you once more. This time they are at Platform and somewhere along the line the colour vanished (I opted for B&W due to unforgiving fluorescent light above). The animals, all twenty-one, are in their new home until the cabinet doors are reopened on the 29th and they are released, free to roam once more.
{As they appear behind glass.}
We installed the animals over the weekend in a single cabinet in a subway built especially in 1956 for the Melbourne Olympic Games. Beneath two of Louise’s large and beautiful watercolour drawings they sit, all white with inky hand-drawn fur and bristles. When out and about it is always advisable to have something to read about your person; our wooden animals have a selection of zines to keep them amused.
A single copy of each zine created to date, save the very first one, Is there kunst in the house - how to get by on 4€ a day (made in collaboration with Gaby Bila-Günther, in 2002, this zine still holds dear and thinking of it now I am reminded of a fleeting, madcap visit to Budapest… an adventure where good friendships were made, and a few crumbled as well), as we only have one remaining between us. A copy of Three in the Kitchen, made in collaboration with Shari, rests beneath a bear’s paw, if memory serves, and a new zine, soon to be released, by Louise, Before it’s too late, makes its debut near to a turtle, the smallest animal in the group.
{Can you see a copy of Before it's too late? A line of familiar lights perhaps?}
So happy to be able to share this with you all and to hear that you enjoyed the photos in the previous post. Enjoy the evening ahead.
