Meander. Canter. Scurry.

{2013 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery}

And so here we are, tickling the mid point of November and I am once more and in true sign of advancing years wondering where the year went. The season of feeling spread thin, Frodo, seems now to span the whole twelve months. The feeling of constantly trying to catch up has taken roost amidst the dust and jobs piled precariously high. I’d meant to post this earlier, but no matter. In somewhat weak protest, it’s my little carved-out pixel-fashioned kingdom and I can do as I please. So here for you, a look at Louise and my recent (but for how much longer?) collaborative artists’ book, As inclination directs, which is (still) currently being exhibited as part of the 2013 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards (until 24th of November, if you’re quick) and the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2013 (until 17th of November, Light-of-Foot). In these photos taken a handful of months ago now, I still sport a fringe, a fringe I’ve since lopped off. The warm and brilliant Barre Body classes I’ve recently (this past 8 weeks) taken up put paid to the fringe. It gets mighty hot under all that hair when you are standing at the barre with a small blue ball between your legs or a pair of small hand weights in each palm. Practicality called and bid farewell to the fringe I’d so enjoyed if for no other reason than it hid the lines of worry on my forehead. Circling outwards from my topic, these new classes have been something of a revelation to me. Catching sight of my leg held high in three-legged Dog I note that there is more than Just Doing More to equal Being an Actual Dancer (in appearance alone). It is akin, this feeling realized, to the Modern Art sum we all know: I Could Have Made That + Ah, But You Didn’t.

I’ve wandered off here, as befits an artists’ book all about the saunter. Whether you believe this to be intentional or not is entirely up to you.






{As inclination directs, beneath the perspex.}

+ Becoming La Sylphide (Juliet Burnett on Behind Ballet)
+ Those tortured romantics, they do love their anguish
+ Body.Torque Technique: Episode #4 Pirouette