Gashapon Conference

Two birds, one sea pig and the Easter Sonny Angel meet. It could be a set up, the Cockatiel seems wise, or at least leery of the set-up.  Wisely so.

Gingko and Cockatiel Fabrications

The gingko nut, a dense and finely texture treat,  might appeal to a cockatiel, even one made of micro-bricks. Certainly the charming gingko leaves in jelly and hard sugar paste pivot on the axis of too sweet -too charming to eat. And just behind it all I see the sleeve of construction - my old red sweatshirt which seems to have flown the coop.

Carrot Umbrellas and Sonny Angel Bunny Boy

Post Easter here and there are still these faux carrot chocolates left in their vase hangout with the strange boy sonny angel with those rabbit ears. It seemed right to\add  a dab of Orton-ish filter to make the thing just that sillier. 

The Bedside Table - or Damaclese's Reading Stack

Vertical bookshelf or current must-reads?  Here is a teetering mix of things finished and unfiled in proper shelfs, books in progress, books that are not quite being read and not ready to be abandoned, things to read or re-read, a box with a few bits and pieces, including a watch and a boxed set of Vietnamese porcelain dolls. And yes, that phone ready to dial for library help.

Subsidence in Suds

In an episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants, he gets the Suds, which is strange in a sponge which is already made of  3-D contiguously tightly packed heterogeneously assorted thin walled spheres, albeit more stable than suds but very like it.  Unlike Sponge Bob I like suds, its airy mallow, baroque exuberance and ephemerality are fine qualities for baths and here, where the humble act of washing a large vase produced a satisfying surfeit of suds, followed by an intriguing subsidence, as if one part of the suds is thinking of leaving but doesn't quite have the wherewithal.

A Knit Bomb of Rodin's The Thinker?

The pensive model is probably pondering how the wavy, perhaps reverse cable, was executed, I know I am.  The finial to her angora cap looks like it might be a transmitter. I suggest you double click to enlarge and appreciate the details of double-knits.

A Bug's Life o La Vida de La Cucuracha

While there are obviously views of epic proportion laid out in the Blue Mountains  it is worth while keeping an eye out for street life, or street art, such as the discreet and ubiquitous wheat paste bug.  No need to squash even as it's already simply two-dimensional.

Radiating Style

The original French radiators still in situ in the Hydro Majestic come in two types and two colours -black and white. This white warmer is curlicue cosy, and the new carpet accordingly takes its cue.

Examples of Foreverness

Like that rare quality of forgiveness, for-everness is sought but not quite ever attainable.Still, setting aside its true geological rigour, and not even contemplating galactic time frames, the Megalong ( no coincidence in this name) Valley's  superb approximation is not be underestimated.

Whiter Shades of Classic Moves

Seemingly in a slow motion calisthenics class, the powdery quality of the light filling the air like suspended talc, the installation of classical and be-plinthed figures of antiquity catalogues gesture. The White Rabbit Gallery's ground floor installation by Zu-Zhen pivots between reproduction and homage to Buddhist multi-armed statutes, and just maybe the chaos of indicators in art work.