{Louise's birds get ready to fly}
Where parts of Tuesday had distinct feeling of trout swimming up stream only to be eaten by hungry bear, today, the work, the preplanning, and the tinkering flowed dream-like and we’ve now left the gallery having completed much. Compositions, sequences and patterns all fell into place, and the feeling, the feeling is good.
Taking tired self off now to complete a list of works.
shim•my |ˈ sh imē|
noun ( pl. -mies)
1 a kind of ragtime dance in which the whole body shakes or sways.
verb ( -mies, -mied) [ intrans. ]
dance the shimmy.
• [with adverbial of direction ] move swiftly and effortlessly : the Zebra finch shimmied right to the top of one of the cabinets.
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012
The Winged Shimmy.
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Traveller dear,
Louise Jennison and I make artists’ books, we make all sorts of things, and most usually we make things on paper. Collaboration comes naturally to us both; it is an enjoyable process that yields treasure not possible without the other. Working side-by-side, as we do from our home-based studio in Melbourne, Australia, it is a pattern we are familiar with, a path we are delighted to tread, seeing what new scenario evolves. Collaboration throws up the unexpected, and what is not to like about that?
When not with scissors in hand, I can be found writing about ballet and contemporary dance for Fjord Review, and (upon occasion) painting and collage for RMIT.
With paper sufficient to cover the moon and sincerely yours,
Gracia Haby
(High Up in the Trees since 2006)
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