Adelaide in clove pink promise.

{Sign (language) me Ira and George Gershwin's The Man I Love as I perform the four seasons from spring's new shoots to winter's brrr. All the world for 3000 pink carnations.}


{Playing tourist. Waiting for Pina.}


{Minerals organised by colour to appeal.}


{Paw to the glass. A Spinifex hopping mouse (Notomys alexis) pleads for cabinet release.}


{Cool respite, with mummies and amulets. In the museum.}


{From mounted specimens to glorious models, shuffling about in the South Australian Museum, dreaming of new works to make.}


{Never could resist a museum display of the scaled, haired, or feathered. (Lo! I thought I saw a thylacine.)}


{Art Gallery of South Australia, turning on the cloud charm.}


{In awe of the papier-maché mushrooms and fruit models in the beautiful Santos Museum of Economic Botany.}


{A collection of artificial fungi in different stages of growth. The papier-maché models were made in Germany by Heinrich Arnoldi and Co, and are labelled in three categories from edible (blue) to poisonous (red) to harmless (green).}


{Thank-you for your cotton-bud cloud formations and green grass underfoot.}


{The Divided House with divided title on the spine, by Mary Raymond at the library. "Note to subscribers: a fine of 2 cents per day as provided in the Libraries Act will be imposed for the late return of the book"}


{Ocean floor exploration. (2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object, Lovers of Neptune's Cabinet, @nellartist's The way of Saint shell, 2009, bronze)}


{flâneur:"a person who walks the city in order to experience it"—Charles Baudelaire}


{Thank-you for revealing the human condition (Gallery 13), unapologetically suspending Berlinde De Bruyckere's monumental We are all flesh, (2011–12) alongside J. W. Waterhouse's painting of Honorius meditatively feeding pigeons as his secretaries wait to discuss matters of state (The favourites of the Emperor Honorius, c. 1883). Thank-you for your seated cow playing Narcissus gazing at her reflection in a puddle (William Ford's Between the showers, at milking time, 1887, above a card table from Hobart, c. 1840).}


{Putting ourselves in the collection (I).}


{Putting ourselves in the collection (II). (Shinto deities (Shinzo), 15th–16th centuries, Usa shrine area, Oita prefecture, Kyushu camphor wood, pigment, ink, and you and me.)}


{From @samstagmuseum by way of @jamfactoryau and the Santos Museum of Economic Botany, back to @artgalleryofsa, we've peered in every crevice of @adelaidebiennial's Magic Object wunderkammer and found it true to premise: artist as conjuror.}


{Farewell Adelaide. Thank-you for your ladies in sun hats before Roger Kemp (Controlled Extension, 1972) and Segantini's nocturnal scene. Thank-you for the music. (St Cecilia: an allegory of music, c. 1650. "I am Music, who in sweet accents can calm each troubled heart ... and now with love, can kindle the most frigid minds.")}


{Tickle my soles. Colour me jewelled. Carnation carnage. Beautiful and brilliant.}

Because of Pina. Because of Carnations, 3000 of them. Adelaide at a glance. Three days, two nights, squeezed. Just for you, until my piece is posted on Fjord Review. From Welcome swallow to bunting roll, I can't wait to share more.

Adelaide playlist, courtesy of Nelken (Carnations)
The Man I Love
Composed by Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin
Performed by Sophie Tucker

String Quartet in D minor — 'Der Tod und  das Mädchen' ('Death of the Maiden')
Composed by Franz Schubert
Performed by Melos Quartet

Sophisticated Lady
Composed by Ellington/Harwick/Brown/Mille
Performed by Duke Ellington and  his Orchestra

Schön Ist Die Welt
Composed by Franz Lehár
Performed by Rudolf Schock and the Berliner Symphoniker

East St. Louis Toddle-O
Composed by Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley
Performed by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

Shades of Sennet
Composed by Henry Mancini
Performed by Henry Mancini and his Orchestra

West End Blues
Composed by King Oliver
Performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five

Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me
Composed by Gus Kahn and Carmen Lombardo
Performed by Lillie Delk Christian with Louis Armstrong and his Hot Four

Pastorinhas
Composed by Noel Rosa and Joao de Barro
Performed by Banda do corpo de Bombeiros do Distrito Federal

Dama das Camelias
Composed by Joao de Barro and Alcyr Pires Vemelho
Performed by Banda do corpo de Bombeiros do Distrito Federal

Malmequer
Composed by Christovao de Alencar and Newton Teixeira
Performed by Banda do corpo de Bombeiros do Distrito Federal

Romance in the Dark
Composed by Sam Coslow and Gertrude Niesen
Performed by Billie Holiday

+ Welcome home
+ How I missed you
+ Truly
+ Lottie's own holiday, drawn I, II, III, IV