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The Un-Self Selfie or these Old Shades

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Here we the shadow of my current self, which is as close to Selfie-ing as I like to get, the better and more graphically pleasing shadow play is the stag fern’s upright and declaratory fronds, the frillary of top and bottom fronds, in clear sunlight is worth a moment or more of consideration. This fern has been keeping

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Did. You Play Your Cards Right? #18 in the Valentine Day Series

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Do not worry if you missed Valentines Day - in this blogpost it will always be VD and your cards will always come up hearts. It is nearly odd to think that this is the 18th and therefore coming of age Valentine in the Valentine Day Series . It seems I might need a retrospective? Do not worry if

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Shimmer Man -Tin Man’s Fancy Cousin ?

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There was much to watch at the Australian Open, not just ball bounces but light bouncing off in a series of angled volleys and smashes from this, the golden Shimmer Man. There was a Silver Rabbit too, but on this you will have to take my word. There was much to watch at the Australian Open, not just ball

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Ambiguity Contained - Celadon and Red Glaze Days

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Any visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales gives one something to ponder, if you’re the pondering kind. Here Liu. Jianhua’s take on celadon and Ox Blood glazes, the Container Series 2009, suggest that they a full of blood, and that are hollow under the meniscus of glaze. Of course the impulse to turn them upside

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Between Me and the Sea - Jennifer Blau at Mosman Art Gallery

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Jennifer Blau’s thirteen photos are now up in ‘In Profile’, an exhibition space dedicated to local artists in the foyer of Mosman Art Gallery. If, like me, you haven’t as yet paid attention to this small space, now is the time to check it out, as Blau’s subliminal treat is only up until 2 February 2025. Between Me

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The Leaning Brick Tower of Mt Melville

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Rakish? You bet. Brick a brick? Emphatically brickyard. This homage to the leaning Tower of Pisa, is one of the secret treasures of Albany WA., eight levels of the not-so-level, eight tiers of columns. All those pristine beaches of white sand and clear aquamarine are one thing, and this is entirely another. Even its shadow is a model

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Beach + Abandonment Barbie

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Whatever happened to Beach + Abandonment Barbie that finds her in disarray on the sand, handbag and sunnies suggesting it was a big night out, arm up to shield her eyes from the morning sun’s inquisition, I hope it was fun. You might think, dear Reader that this scene was a set up, and B + A Barbie

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Ten Fish Hanging Out at Fishmass

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So, this school of fish missed going up by Christmas but now they have flocked up for what might be called Fishmass. At the moment they are having their sway from on this inside hoistable clothes line in the bathroom but I think they may need to migrate to less humid climes. Their mobile is made with 1.3mm

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Summer Umbrella Daze ——-The Christmas Install

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For six Christmases, the front door has become a temporary space for something on the silly side to welcome guests, provide a frame for photo ops and photo bombing, test out how to make things, and how to make them stick how to scale up and well, make things like giant knives and forks, floral abours and here,

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Happy Fishmas - At-Swim Ten Fish

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The middle fish, top row, below set me off on this piscine pursuit. It was in a sketch book, and an exercise in colour pencils that was left as a one is the loneliest number fish some years back, but that a bad Prussian blue re-do - that murky face middle row below on the right, gave me

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The Devil You Know and The Charcoal Burner You Don’t ?

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Material Worlds: On Emma Fielden’s ‘Somewhere between Silver and Stone’

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Emma Fielden, ‘Somewhere between silver and stone,’ 2024, lapis lazuli, oil, silver point and gesso on linen, 60 x 70cm, Photographer: Document PhotographyMaterial WorldsOn Emma Fielden’s ‘Somewhere between Silver and Stone’ Q: What happens when the artist Emma Fielden picks up a paint brush for the first time, having just pulverised a chunk of lapis lazuli? A: ‘Somewhere between Silver and Stone’Fielden is that paradoxical thing, a conceptual artist

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Unexpected Wes Anderson Moments - Singapore’s Atmoshpherics at Play

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The The equatorial, humid bustle of Singapore, with its moist not quite clean atmosphere, not to mention its architectural no-holds bar, meet up here, to suggest a Jetson-esque roof top bar, and really this photo, albeit taken of a reflection, is unfiltered, though hey, framing is a kind of filtering, if only by what is leaves out. The The equatorial,

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Old Singapore: Shutters,Window, Floors and Door Details

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Old Singapore: Shutters,Window, Floors and Door Details Image

Singapore, the old parts, those that are renovated into blandness, has a wealth of finely detailed doors, a panetone panoply of shutters, floors to gaze upon, and windows, fanlight, coloured glass panels, French,, casement and double-hung, all these from temples and shop houses in Chinatown. Worth walking round, strolling or, here, scrolling. Singapore, the old parts, those that are

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A Morning Walk Up Mount Phusi in Luang Prabang

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Go early, Luang Prabang will be quietly getting on with things, and it will only be small groups going up the variously reported three hundred and thirty three, or three hundred and twenty six stairs, if like me, you are not so keen on edges where the way down is sudden, take the inside path when passing. The

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Three Men and a Boat - to say nothing of the dogs

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Preparing for Luang Prabang’s Lantern Festival takes some Monk power - and here with a little nod to Jerome K Jerome’s classic novel about river trips, and a numerical sleight of hand - there are really four men here, who are taking their vessel for lantern travel to higher ground. The dogs, delighted escorts, seem to know the

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Laotian Market Graphics at Luang Prabang Morning Market

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Laotian Market Graphics at Luang Prabang Morning Market Image

For graphic layout the marketeers at the lovely Luang Prabang morning market have a sharp eye for colour and pattern, managing to make even two fish look stylish. And yes, those crabs parcelled up for an easy exit or- and here I veer into the silly, as neat evening purses. This is something of a scroll-a-t-on, but hey

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Three Birds in the Hand - And One in a Tree

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Or should that be three birds on the shelf? Or One Wooden bird meets two paper birds? Or should a handy bird sit on the shelf? Like me these three insider birds have been waiting for the outside birds - see below - to hatch their eggs. It seems that the incubation time has past and the eggs

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Reasons to Walk to The Twelve Apostles

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Walking in September along the Great Ocean Walk is an an up and down, rain coat on and off, up and over felled trees encounter with the drama of this coast, a push against headwinds, a sometimes ethereal float through forest paths, but always one is heading towards these stone pillars, always the sea is wide foam fo

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Perma-Crops , Farmer Bart’s Frost Resistance

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While Winter is not yet out and about in Huntingdon County Farmer Bart Brassica has been, well experimenting would suggest some kind of orderly and systematic testing that this venture does not involve, so it is more a process of messing around to produce Frost Resistance, and here Bart has come up with two candidates for what he

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Curiosity Cabinet

As a child I thought there was a jewel box hidden in my parent's house, I imagined there was a cache of pink cut glass rings - the ones with adjustable soft metal sizing - laid out in pink foam in the nailed tight plyboard box in my brothers' walk-in robe.

Years later, I realised the box was really the back of the bathroom cabinet. I got a lot of enjoyment out of those pink glass jewels that weren't there. Imaginery treasures are curiously satisfying.

Here is a central point where someone who might be interetested can see what bits of words, some links to work published in journals and ezines, and images that I have made.

Absent Knowledge

We are talking about knowing certain facts,

and he says, I know all that or used to,

it is only that I can’t remember.

Is this not knowing or forgetting

what you know? Perhaps the head holds

a trace of what was there,

perhaps it is there but can’t find

the way out; maybe it was there but left,

or there was a rumour that it was coming

but never did,

like the promised holiday ,

in Pennant Hills. At eight years old

I would lie in bed at night a hardly contained

precipice of anticipation that time

would take me to Pennant Hills and a big house

with a swimming pool. I can see

the façade of the house, the curve

of suburban street, where that house

I never went to might be - or even was.

Though I know I never went, maybe

somewhere, there is an unborn memory

of being there, and I am thwarted by absent knowledge

from enjoying what I did not do.

Carol Jenkins

From Voices from the Meadow Wollongong Workshop Anthology 2007 ( Five Islands Press)

Bambiraptor

The Going Down Swinging # 25 -special double CD edition has at last unwrappped itself in Sydney, with a lauch at the Last Bastion of Civilisation last Wednseday 25 September. I still don't know what is in this CD it apart from my spoken word poem Bambiraptor as I was incarcarated in an invention called Good Mummydom. I hope every one else had a good time at the launch party.

The fossil Bambiraptor’s importance in the evolutional of dexterity and the dissonant name gave me this rave by Blanche (Street Car Named Desire) - here she makes a play for Bambiraptor believing his tough and powerful persona is lined with tenderness, like Stanley. This poem is one of my bids to get fossils to colonise and take over the myth as the substratum of literature.