{The Not Quite Sure install begins.}
{A space for a woodpecker and a swift.}
{Waiting for their turn, in an orderly line.}
{Preening feathers and posting correspondence on a Wednesday.}
Until the 21st of May, you can see our papered menagerie in the window of the Port Jackson Press Gallery (in their brand new gallery space with pressed tin ceiling and copper plated doors). Louise’s delicate hand-coloured Red-Knots (Calidris canutus), Grey-rumped Treeswifts (Hemiprocne longipennis), and Superb Fruit-Doves (Ptilinopus superbus) neighbour a loose grid of my Dear You tales. And nestled at the heart of this formation, our last three prints made before our printer’s retirement late last year.
Installed today, though already it feels an age ago, our animals holding their position by day and by night.
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Not Quite Sure
Thursday 1st of May – Wednesday 21st of May, 2014
Little Window of Opportunity
Port Jackson Press Print Gallery, 84 Smith Street, Collingwood
{The awkward hold.}
{Triple checking measurements. Consulting maps. Scratching heads.}
{Loose Red Knot. Temporarily.}
{'You tired?' 'Yup. You?' 'Yup. Lids a little heavy.'}
{Fastening monkeys in place.}
{Rufous Hornero (Furnarius rufus) in the wings.}
{In the coppered door, reflected.}
{Rolling the circus into place in the bright autumn sunlight of the late afternoon.}
{Yes, earlier today we installed a window and now we look something like this wobbly copper reflection.}
Ready to do it all again tomorrow. Follow and see on instagram.
+ The Charms of the Gloaming, 2012, Port Jackson Press Print Room (in their former home, 61 Smith Street, Fitzroy)
+ "Beautifully packaged and swiftly unwrapped" is what we like to hear. (Thank-you @SarahBodman)
+ Omar, our beloved Siamese cat, becomes a Dickensian noun thanks to the New York Public Library. "It was the best of puppies, it was the worst of puppies .... in short, the period was so far like the snazzy siamese cat ....". (Thank-you @nypl)
