{From the workstation, piled (pet-proof) high, comes new Salvaged Relatives for October.}
Back to front, and front to back, with a "miniature and portrait painter," or rather, with a sharp pair of scissors, a brush, some glue, and a sharpness of 2B pencils, things end up almost as intended, but not quite. A twist left, a tail right, there's always room for a Russian (Vladimir) doll from the second half of the 18th century's headpiece of glass, pearls, linen, cotton and wood to fall into a new (and more fitting) place. Following September's larger cabinet card mysteries and extinct animals, I present you with a selected sextet of recent Salvaged Relatives cartes de visite from the drawing board, created to the sound of spotted doves a-wooing. With no "negatives kept," but always the possibility of a copy (in the form of a zine), Amelia Berry and friends await your gaze, with the "pause" but not the "leap" of Vaslav Nijinsky.
{Six Salvaged Relatives collages on cartes de visite join the family, and I couldn't be more pleased.}
I consider my studio as a kitchen garden. Here, there are artichokes. There, potatoes. Leaves must be cut so that the fruit can grow. At the right moment, I must prune. I work like a gardener.... Things come slowly.... Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. I must graft. I must water.... Ripening goes on in my mind. So I'm always working at a great many things at the same time.
—Joan Miró, 1959
Beastarium
Until Sunday the 22nd of November
Dubbo Regional Gallery
Western Plains Cultural Centre
76 Wingewarra Street
Dubbo, NSW
2015 Geelong acquisitive print awards
Until Sunday 22nd of November
Geelong Galley
Little Malop Street
Geelong, Victoria
+ The perks of waiting
+ Lenni and me, sometimes, playfully
