Once more, come with me on a visual journey, we’re off to install our work at Mailbox 141 in Flinders lane. It’s humid in the stairwell so be sure to wear something light and loose fitting… and don’t forget a water bottle, we can’t have you getting dehydrated and wilting in the heat. I have my African basket packed with a container of vinegar and a favourite striped tee that has since become a cleaning rag, blades, pens and pencils, an old brush (for sweeping out the inside on each mailbox), the many keys for each small door, and a folder full of Louise’s watercolour drawings and my postcard collages (which you’ve been seeing here in recent months). Do you think you could carry the takeaway coffees and strawberry & pistachio flavoured macarons? I’ve only so many hands… merci.
And now, if you fancy, let's head out to the wilds of Braeside, to factory land, to Redwood Prints, Jarrah drive, for we have some four colour lithographic offset prints to cut down to size. Once more I advise you wear short sleeves, it can get mighty stuffy in there.
Please, dart across to Louise's blog where you'll find plenty more installation photos as well.
Some mid week links awaiting your perusal:
Old law tenements, from Forsythe and E. Houston Streets, Manhattan.
Library for the Blind: Man with bags of mail, "one days mail, free service, May 1926."
Arrival of the winter mail.
Belgium post & Parisian mailboxes from Crescent House.
Must stop...
dreaming of winter
& planning to spend my pennies on...
Mr. Rabbit (oxidised silver) & Mr. Diamond (large resin diamond) pendants from Deadly Ponies (from their Kingdom of Loneliness Autumn/Winter 2007 collection),
A Chip Chop! Designs canvas tote,
and stud earrings from made by white.
