Recovered and costumed.

{At the tiny gem that is Milly Sleeping, plans are afoot for a Salvaged Relatives artists' book launch in February. Get your costumes ready!}


{Fiddly manoeuvres and fast-drying glue.}


{Thanks to Louise, title pages are GO! (Salvaged Relatives work in progress in the late afternoon.)}

As things take shape on the working table, plans for a tiny One Night Only viewing at Milly Sleeping are brewing in the background. (More soon.)

Until then, here, in gauze, tulle and brass decoration, the recently rescued. Salvaged from near-obscurity, these unknown characters are now dressed and ready to take to the stage.

Proudly presenting, The Cabinet Cards Sextet!


{In the borrowed skirt of Columbine, c. 1942, with a Pen-tailed tree shrew (Ptilocercus lowii) and a Water opossum (Chironectes minimus). (Dot. Dot. Dot. Dot. Dot. A closer look at Columbine.)}


{In the modified costume for the Prince in L'Oiseau d'Or, c. 1909, with its red raspberry temptation.}


{In a borrowed crown from Sadko, with a Grey treefrog (Hyla versicolor).}


{In a borrowed costume from Carnival, designed by Léon Bakst, c. 1920, with a Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi). (Feels like...)}


{In the borrowed costume for a Court Lady in Francesca da Rimini, c. 1937, with an Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus).}


{In the borrowed costume for a Polovtsian Warrior from Prince Igor, c.1909, with a Leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius). (Quittin' time. Brushes down.)}

Also on the horizon, with artists' books in mind, we may not be costumed in papier-mâché and satin, but we will be chatting about photographs used within our artists' books as part of Photo Book Melbourne.

See you there.

Friday the 20th of February
6pm – 7.30pm
Photography Studies College
65 City Road, Southbank


{Come along.}

+ Our Salvaged Relatives Pocket Edition zine features in the current Book Arts Newsletter (February 2015, Issue 95, pages 42 to 43). You can pick up a copy of this zine here, through our online store.