Eight recent views squared.

{Outside, a blustery, busy, part bright, part grey spring day. Inside, a calm sanctuary carefully prepared from paper, and assembled by the workings of light and sound, offering up a space transformed. Antony Hegarty's Paradise equals one exquisite collage exhibition.}


{An early evening walk to the Melbourne Recital Centre's Salon to see a performance of Pierrot Lunaire (Moonstruck Pierrot) (which premiered in 1912) given recently by soprano Merlyn Quaife, Syzygy Ensemble, Songmakers Australia, and BalletLab as part of the Melbourne Festival.}


{From Olivia, by post, beautiful prints and postcards arrive. (Above you can see two hand-coloured prints from 1859 which include in the gaggle a ringed pheasant, a silver pheasant, a common peacock, a Salt's antelope and a Koodoo.)}


{Often with a small notebook and pen in hand, to catch before they fade, all the things I wish to remember. (Silhouette Playtime in the gallery with Louise.)}


{There, underfoot, my name on a brick in the paving at my old Primary School (to celebrate the Middle Park Primary School centenary in 1987).}

{The New Honeybee Scissors Workout in the studio.}


{Olive and Henny. Omar and Percy. Working from home one is never lonely.}

{Look up! Look up! In the busy crush before The Australian Ballet's 50th Anniversary Gala performance at the State Theatre, I look at the costumes on display in the box office foyer. The mirrored ceiling makes for delicious distortion and renders two costumes one new creation reminiscent of the Sea Princess (in the ballet Sadko, designed by Natalia Gontcharova, 1919). Can you see it too?}