A thing installed and happily so.

There are many things I like to do, too many to here list, but one of the things I especially like to do is to instal our work. Be it on gallery wall, in window case or display cabinet, or upon a tabletop spread. It affords terrific joy. It makes sense of all the quiet hours working. For things, things are made to be seen. You might create work for yourself, for your own enjoyment, but these labours they are made to be shared, like a book written to be cradled in palm and read. Setting up, the hours fly. The focus on tweaking, nudging, perfecting is happily all consuming if you allow it to be and even if you do not. Coaxing concertina folds to sit just so and arranging an assembly of Louise’s drawn birds on the wall on a spring day is something I’d no other way have.

Here is our yesterday afternoon.




















{A spring afternoon spent in the window.}

You can see our window compilation of paper work, our gathering of Charms particular to the gloaming until the very end of November in the window of the Port Jackson Press Print Room.

Should you be passing during open hours, be sure to Step inside and see the beautiful works of  Jazmina Cininas (Past and Present until the 13th November), and others.

Charms of the Gloaming
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
in the Little Window of Opportunity
Port Jackson Press Print Room, 61 Smith Street, Fitzroy

+ Beneath the screen of closed eyelids (Port-Said), a collaborative artists' book made with Louise, that marries coloured pencil workings and collage together. (A closer look at one of six artists' books on display in the window.)