Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar.

{Found! 3D glasses X 7. (ETA Crisp & Crunchy Salted Peanuts glasses for Metroscopix)}

It’s hot, hot, hot, and I, I was built for winter and cool climes. In the late afternoon stickiness and with sweaty brow, my movements are small, my limbs feel too weighted for more, and my activity never strays far from fan’s path. The room is littered with flaked pets, and outside the birds stand carriage tall, wings out, beaks open. Our budgie shade cloth with damp tea towel reinforced sides on day two (or do I mean three?) of the heatwave is thus far ensuring our feathered members of the family foxhole stay with us. Our bee rafts fashioned from twigs seem also to be working. I like to imagine the bees re-enacting that love triangle scene from To Catch A Thief in the birdbath of Newry Street. No casualties of the apocalypse thus far, I’m happy to report. But the brain, well it could be at the Playing Tricks stage. (Bees as Kelly, Grant, and Brigitte Auber, really?)

And so on such a hot and muddle-fry-brain day as this, it seems only fitting that the artists’ book I share with you is one that takes place under the water.

Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar, is a new 3D artists’ book of mine created especially for the forthcoming Draw Me A Story exhibition at Maroondah Art Gallery. Thanks to a sucessful find at 'my' postcard supplier's store, it will now come with the required 3D glasses to heighten the effect. Sadly, it will not come with the magic card trick 'my' postcard supplier performed for Louise and me; we've not the skill.
























{Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar, 2014.}