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A Year of Southern Hemisphere Birds

One Crested Jay has his portrait drawn. Surrounded by a ring of wasps. His favourite food stuff.


A Year of Southern Hemisphere Birds zooms along on Wednesday.


A necklace of mice to frame my two Southern boobooks in progress.


Two boobooks surrounded by a ring of mice takes shape.

Though little of the work you have seen here, I am currently working on the second last bird portrait in my giant, unique state artsts' book entitled A Year Southern Hemisphere of Birds. Twelve bird portraits, one for each month, are very nearly complete. It's hard to believe.

A Year of Southern Hemisphere Birds features twelve pencil-drawn birds encircled by their food choices, nesting material or habitat, alongside written facts. As such, bands of kelp, clumps of mud, gatherings of termites, rings of berries, necklaces of mice and circles of butterflies and moths all feature.

As the page size is so very large (56cm X 38cm), I've not really had a chance as yet to photograph the work as I go. Just a few quick instagram captures to share has been all. I'll soon change that, I promise.

Birds included (in order they appear):
Yellow-billed Kingfisher
Red-rumped Parrot
Crested Jay
Yellow-fronted Woodpecker
Southern Boobook
Grey-rumped Treeswift
Kakapo
Red Knot
Superb Fruit-dove
Rufous Hornero
Antarctic Tern
(and lastly, a...) Shaft-tailed Whydah

In news of other animals (White rabbits! Dormice! March hares! Frog-footmen!), I've been to see Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with Gracia and this is what we saw.

To an autumn's sale's end

Late Monday afternoon and in-between finishing one bird drawing (Shaft-tailed whydah) and starting work on the next (Crested-jay), I'm popping up with a slew of instagram moments from these glorious late autumn days, and a friendly reminder, too, that our BIG sale is still on until the end of May. You've still just enough time to pick up a bargin for yourself with 25% off until the month's end. All you need to do is type in MAY when prompted.

So, until the end of autumn, friends. Be quick!

























Apologies to those of you who follow on instagram, facebook or twitter and as such have seen many of these little squares before. I am still trying to figure out how to balance all of these different avenues and until I do, I'll continue to post little best-of highlights here on Elsewhere.

Before I go, a little peep at something new G and I are working on for the next issue of Materiality. A flipbook of sorts will somehow feature. Stay posted, friends, and in the meantime, in case you missed it, read Materiality highlights here and here, and take a look at the past here (the '80s and '90s were hilarious).

From Belgium in the springtime

Gracia and my copies of 1110/5 arrived by post recently and I can't quite explain to you the thrill of receiving something you've contributed to be it in some large or small way landing in your hand. So exciting was it to receive this tiny parcel wrapped in brown paper and sent to 'Australië' that we left it wrapped up until the morning to open with the first brew of coffee for the day. Inside said parcel, a contributors copy for each of us. Twenty-three postcards with words and images from a few people I know and a few people I'd like to know. I wonder if anyone will separate their pack and post them.

Thank-you Éireann for inviting us to be a part of this special edition. Dreaming up our three collaborative pieces for you to pick from was a delight. I'm always interested to see who will pick what, wondering if they will pick my favourite. To my great delight, you did.

You can discover more about this MIEL publication here, on our site, and you can purchase a copy for yourself here, through MIEL for €10.00. And you can read An incomplete round-up of little magazines on postcards, on the Little Magazine Collection, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections blog.

111O is our literary magazine, published twice a year (fall and spring). Each issue usually contains one photograph or print, one piece of prose, and ten poems in a slim volume with a die-cut cover.

This time, though, we decided to do something different. We asked 23 artists and photographers to lend us a piece of their work, and invited 23 writers to respond to those images. Each image, paired with its text, will be printed on a heavy postcard. (There's space on the back for an address and a stamp—so yes, you can even send them.) We're calling this issue 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. Or 111O/5, for short.

These days of late

Waiting...


Waiting...


Still waiting...

A quick little round up of recent days as shared on instagram, from (successful) hallway waiting for a TNT courier, to pre-opera treats at Brunetti's in the city (before George Frideric Handel's Partenope), and a fleeting trip to Sydney, where I happily lose myself in the collections of both the library and the MCA. This is how it looks around here, in between wrapping orders of prints from our sale (still on until the end of May) and drawing yet another bird for my giant book entitled Twelve Months of Southern Hemisphere Birds. This is how it looks some days, in between domestic chores and creating neon collages. Looking at the frequency and ease with which G and I use instagram, it is easy to see why it has taken off.


A pink sky before yoga one morning


The hilarity of our Brunetti's sweets re-gramed by Brunetti


You are here, briefly


Delighting in signage, and finding circles everywhere


Looking at symmetry in the library


...and looking up various books on birds


Robert Owen's Sunrise #3 (In process earlier on, as part of Volume One: MCA Collection)


Guan Wei's The Journey to Australia mural at the MCA in progress (explore MCA Now)


There's always Percy

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

(via Rona Green)

A terrific MAY sale and a new print to boot

This still dark morning, I have news of a terrific May sale for you and Gracia's print to share. Above, in photos taken on a windy day, you can see the print she made for a collaborative artists' book and print exhibition that travelled about the Netherlands. If you cast your mind back to 2010, you may remember it. From this bed, with the wings of a bird, I flew to the sea as I slept last night was created especially for Of Birds and Fishes / Over Vissen en Vogels. And now that the work has been returned, we can list several of the edition for sale.

You can now purchase, through our online store, editions of this five-colour print. For the interested among you, here are the details:

From this bed, with the wings of a bird, I flew to the sea as I slept last night
Gracia Haby
2010
Five-colour lithographic offset print on Fabriano bright-white 300gsm paper
$50

And from today right through until the end of May, we are offering 25% off everything in our store. To receive the 25% discount off your entire order, simply enter the sale code MAY when prompted.

We hope our friends enjoy both this sale and newly listed print.

I'll be travelling from Genova to Johannesburg

This is a closer look at Gracia's new zine Genova to Johannesburg (Johannesburg to Genova), bound head-to-tail, which she introduced to you late last week. Having neither been to Genova or Johannesburg, I think this may be my favourite zine to date. I can't resist the flying fish throughout it that swim through the streets. The world looks like a giant underwater aquarium. It is little short of gorgeous. It is a joy!

A handful of recent orders have been posted today, and soon some to the MCA store too (alongside earlier titles of ours).

An edition of 80, you can travel, too, for as little as $8.00 (AUD). Here, below, a little further visual enticement for you:





















And, just in case you missed it in the busy days previous, here is a link to Gracia's post on Atlanta Eke's truly terrifying Monster Body (as part of Dance Massive 2013, written for Fjord Review).

Nestled under Published Works, you can read all of G's pieces (from this year and previous) for Fjord Review. I, for one, cannot wait to read the next one. It is always interesting to 'see' something through someone else's eyes, don't you think?