Harmonious hues.

{Navigating our way through the MIFF 2014 guide is akin to this. (Image credit: The Glory of Azaleas, Magnolia-on-the-Ashley, S. C., from Photographic views of North America, c. 1901, Detroit Photographic Co. photochrome, Beineke Rare Book Library)}


{LOOK what Lenni did. (Keir Choreographic Award, Program One, Dancehouse)}


{And with that, we fall out into the glorious night. Thank-you Dancehouse. (Image credit: Sarah Aiken, Three Short Dances, @keirchoreographicaward, Program Two, Dancehouse, photo by Gregory Lorenzutti)}


{No, Lenni, we do not eat tiny cyclists.}


{Slow peddle. (The slow business of hand-painting tiny cyclists for Antique Toy World collectors. I don't know how you do it, Louise.)}


{Black & Gold Milk Powder. (Another day wrapping up end-of-semester artworks to return to students using all the recycled materials we could get our hands on. Screech! goes the packing tape.)}


{Some sort of idyll. (Image credit: Azaleas, Magnolia-on-the-Ashley, South Carolina, no. 53796, from Photographic views of North America, Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co, ca. 1897-1924, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)}


{Percy has excellent legging recognition and meets me after every Barre Body class.}


{...getting the hang of shoulder travel.}


{A soon-to-be MIFF2014 orphan, Percy toys with the idea of attending the festival as Louise's neck-warmer. (Especially for @cottageindustrystore)}


{From the safety of my shoulder, Lenni surveys the big, loud, crazy world.}

Another week. What a week. Introspection held in balance by outward gaze, highs by lows, close focus by general sweep, the exciting by the mundane. Yes, all as you’d expect, really. But whoever thought July would be quieter was clearly pulling my leg. Wait a minute—that was me. Me, sat here on a Saturday evening waving a bit of fake fur on a plastic stick to distract Lenni from chomping Percy’s rump as he sleeps at my feet. Me, jiggling a cat toy with my right hand, typing with my left, thinking it is time to start a new body of work, and in echo of a performance seen at Dancehouse (as part of the Keir Choreographic Award), aware of the unwashed dishes in the sink, and the clothes in the washing machine.

To the beautiful hunkered down winter.

+ Fifty-four MIFF sessions booked! Let the disintegration begin! (MIFF)
+ ...and upon learning we'd booked fifty-four MIFF sessions without him, Lenni looked a little like this.
+ Later, the Lenni Scarf, showing Percy how it is done. (From the MIFF2014 orphans series for @oliviatokyo and @cottageindustrystore)
+ The Ramones' first bio, written by Tommy in 1975 (Letters of Note)
+ "Louise Jennison takes colouring-in to the sublime — see her book on display at Monash Caulfield Library"
+ PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books exhibition