An invitation extended.

Dear you,

We'd love to invite you to a One Night Only viewing of



A suite of three unique state artists’ books featuring sixty-three individual collaged cabinet cards. Housed in brightly-hued linen Solander boxes, these Salvaged Relatives now sport costumes from the Ballet Russes, including Nijinsky’s Blue God tunic modified and a Eunuch’s embroidered silk and velvet sensation from Shéhérazade.

5 – 7:30pm

Wednesday the 11th of February, 2015

Milly Sleeping
157 Elgin Street
Carlton

There will be punch! There will be papered costume a-plenty to mandolin accompaniment.

Come along. It'll be grand. Come. Meet the Relatives! Come costumed or otherwise.

Yours in papered anticipation,
Gracia & Louise
XO

Until then, proudly presenting, the Appetite Awaken-ers.

{In the borrowed costume for Pierrot, 1920–24, cradling an Atlantic flyingfish (Cheilopogon melanurus).}


{In the headdress of a Seahorse, taking dictation from a Madras treeshrew (Anathana ellioti).}


{After Henri Matisse, costume for the Mandarin from Le Chant, with an aardvark (Orycteropus afer).}


{A family portrait in the borrowed mantle from King Dodon, c. 1937, designed by Natalia Goncharova.}


{After Henri Matisse with gold studs, paint, satin, and braid, 1920.}


{In the modified costume for a Young Man, designed by Giorgio de Chirico, c. 1929, with a Harpy fruit bat (Harpyionycteris whiteheadi)}


{In the borrowed costume of a Prince for Vaslav Nijinsky, 1914.}


{In the borrowed costume for a guest from Balanchine's le Bal, c. 1929, with a Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra).}

+ With 000 brush in hand, the last of the backdrops are painted. And all of the Salvaged Relatives are now dressed.
+ Today's costume is amethyst. A Violet-backed starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster). A common passerine in name only.
+ 'H is for Hobbledehoy' (Thanks for your Victorian alphabet zine, Paul. A most welcome and unexpected surprise. X)