Violas bear Him Away - New Jersey Gothic
Sadly, Bart Brassica has not been seen in these parts for years. This post revisits an old photograph of Bart, bucket-handed and embe...
Sadly, Bart Brassica has not been seen in these parts for years. This post revisits an old photograph of Bart, bucket-handed and embe...
In the current pandemic Mr Farmhand, conscious of the need to stay safe while out walking, is seen here putting the finishing scythe-wi...
It will not come a surprise to anyone who lives within a curcubit of Mr Farmhand that he his favourite band is still AC/DC, and he is stil...
Usually with these redo's of photo's in Prussian Blue I note who photographed whom. But here while I'm thinking Rasputin, t...
Having noticed this box of pins on my desk, the impulse to list a Varieties of Pins commenced: Tie, map, dress, fibula, safety, nap...
If you cannot decide to wear a chapeau, a topper, a top hat or a bandeau, you can be in two minds with two moustaches, so get ahead of yo...
Yasunari Kawabata's slim novel 'Beauty and Sadness' is both of these things, from the opening scene in a near empty first...
These are strange times indeed and for a moment I thought Mr Farmhand had come down with a case of Existential Crises driven by erosion of...
Whitewashed wall, white vase by Dinosaur Design, and contemporary Japanese porcelain bowl that is practically perfect in its balance and g...
The Brothers Bunraku -Pianola are keeping an eye on things, patient observers of the everyday, of who comes in and who goes out. This la...
It has been too long since we have checked in on Mavis Eggwhistle, Florista extraordinaire and plucky first adopter of stem...
Autumn, the fuschia is that handy thing, a constant bloom. A run of hanging, balletic particles, unfashionable like witch;s britches...
Granny Eggwhistle has, until now, been loquacious but unseen personage in the intermittent reports from Hunterdon County that have come to...
Some years this dark orchid puts out twenty flower spikes, last year there was none. This year’s set is not profuse but still abundant an...
Like reading old letters, the bijoux box, is part cut and paste, part nostalgia and one hundred percent worthy of reassembling into this h...
Yes, it's true, I actually exist. Come along and be very amused. You can click through to book here.
Yes, it is a new book! You can book for the launch event at Mosman Library or get it directly from Puncher&Wattmann .
Sweet peas and freesias, a vintage pillow sham, all things past their ostensible use by date but collectively and more closely examined...
Madrid is full of heroic voluminous architecture and statues, this classical ensemble of three horses, a chariot and, not to be outdone by...
If green unicorns are found, they may be offered physalis, the intrigue of their paper cases and the piquancy of the berries, will suffic...
There is a sight more than a sleight of hand happening to turn tiny doll into a masked series of herself. Here distortion rules, the prot...
A corner torn off from a give away sheet of paper art from the excellent Minimalism: Space Time Object exhibition at the National Galler...
For twelve years, I've made Valentines to send out on the eponymous Day. There have been made of snow, bread pudding, sticks, plas...
Here in a monastery in Danuphyu, an obscure river town on the Irrawaddy, the subsidence into gentle decay largely goes unremarked, the loc...
Singapore’s Cloud Forest greenhouse in Gardens by the Bay has the drama and complexity of the Magic Flute, there are plants there in such...
Dried fish contort to show an anatomical aspect that might echo a theodolite, things for sale at Danuphyu’s busy local market are gloriou...
Heading south from WA's Cape Naturaliste, Cape Leeuwin bound, the Indian Ocean keeps company with you and the granite gneiss --not...
Why are the eyes, light's principal doorway to the nervous system, sometimes conceived as emitters of radiance? In any case night v...
Diminutive but undaunted, the old coffee punter, an ex-golfer, practices his putts, while putting into actions a plan for purchasing a pin...
Every breast pocket deserves the best pocket-chief, and while, yes, there is something fishy about this pocket pez, for colour and cutenes...
Is this an ostentatious threat of excessive force? A grammatical confusion that conflates the perpetrator and the means of perpetration?...
On a whim, setting out for lunch at Cool Mac in Kirribilli, I took a AGNSW brochure and ripped out a piece of indigo woodblock atmosphe...
I'm being followed by a prawn shadow, prawn shadow, prawn shadow... this is Exmouth's big prawn, imprinted on the gravelly grass...
The Mughal architecture of Rajasthan is a giddy proposition, does one look up at the fabulous facades, the carved cupolas, the double ...
A flurry of feathers, some savvy avian navigation, that triple back beat of winds that spells touchdown, what could be more amazing than...