Slow harvest at winter's tail.

{In my hand, a team of tiny footballers Louise has recently painted.}

A little bird in Henri Matisse's left ear. A body in a boat shed. (Quelle horreur, Agatha!) Tumbling stars from 2009 that still hold some small appeal. A troupe of acrobats worn as buttons. A clowder of cats for a good cause, and a sleeping cat on a stove top too. An oil-spill coloured, land-locked bird, dear Eureka, dear friend, reading aloud in a bookstore. The midmorning appearance of a  Jan Van Eyck painting circa 1430s, Yes, now and then, "the world [is] round and you [can] go on it around and around". The world is full of curious hand-coloured lantern slides, if you know where to look. Including this one of a woman and "a tame silver fox".

And while on your travels, if you are quick, you might care to leaf through a selection of our printed tales. Editions of In your dreams, blurred and distinct (2014), A Catalogue of Bodies (2014) As if from the clouds, restless (2014), Twelve months, an explorer (2014), and the pocket-sized 38.1500° S, 144.3500° (2013) are currently being exhibited as part of George Paton Gallery: Artist's Books (reprised) until the 5th of September.

George Paton Gallery: Artist's Books (reprised)
Tuesday 26th August to Friday 5th of September
George Paton Gallery
Second floor, Union House, University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, 3010, Victoria

Closing event
Thursday the 4th of September, 5-7pm

See you at the closing, friends.


{A Memento mori from Madrid. A souvenir for Louise. (You were missed, @misterpercy.) Vanitas (and me, reflected), Pietro Negri, 1662, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid}


{Never can find, my favourites on a postcard. (Salome with the head of John the Baptist (Salomè con la testa di Giovanni Battista), Titian, c.1550, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)}


{From when the kitten was smaller and the fangs were shorter.}


{An evening spent quietly working looks something like this, minus the style.}


{With (last night's screening of) Jan Švankmajer's Faust in mind as I repeat my steps.}


{Earlier, we ironed out our MIFF 2014 creases. The tail end of winter, a blue sky day, later immortalised in pen and pencil.}


{A lucky find! (Diary of a Horse by Claire Goll with drawings by Marc Chagall)}


{Can withstand storms, but not it seems kittens. (First major siamese kitten breakage: one vintage Mexican hurricane lamp with a mirrored glass base (and he is not contrite at all)}