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Keirle Park, 22 November, 2010, Make-Up Lesson

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Followers of the Keirle Park series will see this is the second visit to KP this week, for what is known in the trade as a make-up lesson. The ambiguity of the term 'make-up lesson' has always appealed to me and when this woman with the (really it is true) golden leather upholstered car interior and matching groomed

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Keirle Park, 19 November, 2010, Callistemon Nuts

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I had been for a walk around the lagoon to where it runs into the beach, picking this small bottlebrush nut on the way back. A teenage pair, boy and girl were fooling around on this funny thing that might be a down-scale soccer goal. I was listening to the skaters, and the car park sounds. The reference

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Dinner for One or C'ena Pa Una

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The Expanding Universe - Written for Sing! 2011

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My friend Mark Walsmely (who you can find at Demo Doctor) asked if I could write lyrics for a science theme song as a candidate for Sing! the ABCs primary schools song book. It sounded tricky and I thought I would cheat and adapt a poem I'd written about fossil fish but the first line of this appeared

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In the Lyric Mode - The Mood Museum Notebook for No-One

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From time to time I write song lyrics, mostly because friends ask and then it's as if I am hypnotised; straight away lyrics start scrolling in, as if I am really an automaton. I wrote this song for a girl or boy band. It's about resilience, and toenail polish. Johny Jay Johny Jay Dalway Medwaypaints her toenails in

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Collected Works , Poetry & Ideas Bookshop, Blogspot & Ezine

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The wonderful Melbourne bookshop Collected Works, Poetry & Ideas had some scary moments late last year when it seemed it might go down the fiscal gurgler. But a call for help has seen a rush of punters buying books, readings, browsings and a general renaissance of what must be the best poetry bookshop in the world. If you

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Keirle Park, 13 September, 2010, Skate side

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Keirle Park, 13 September, 2010, Skate side Image

The skate park seems to be inhabited by figures from a seventies architectural drawing, perhaps it's the heavy handed black brush strokes that invite this comparison.That strange calligraphic daub above the 'R' is the remnants of someone taking off into the bowl. 13 September 2010The skate park seems to be inhabited by figures from a seventies architectural drawing,

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Keirle Park, September, 2010, Coloured Pencils

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The trees edging the park on this September afternoon might have existed simply as a support structure for clouds. These mottled, almost sunset clouds, appeared to melt into ach other. The coloured pencils made this sketch, even the paper, seem like primary school art. 20 September 2010 The trees edging the park on this September afternoon might

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Keirle Park, September 2010 - Cheap Black Ink

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In July I'd stayed for a short time at Bundanon, working with a team of people from Macau Uni, headed up by Kit Kelen, getting some of my poems translated into Chinese (yipppee- that is Mandarin for excited) . Kit and Carol Archer were great fun to sit and draw with & Kit introduced me to what he

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Keirle Park, August , 2010 - Back to Square One

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Seemingly by accident I've sketched the tree where I started off. Same but different. 30 August 2010Seemingly by accident I've sketched the tree where I started off. Same but different. 30 August 2010 Seemingly by accident I've sketched the tree where I started off. Same but different. 30 August 2010Seemingly by accident I've sketched the tree where I

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Keirle Park, August, 2010 - Inside Out

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What is it about the car? Though I am reluctant to say it here the car, my very shabby BMW, is both lounge room and cocoon, an aperture to the world and a scene in itself. The odd perspective here is looking up and out from the driver's seat , through both the passenger window and the sun

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Keirle Park, 2 August, 2010

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One person out trying their foot at kicking a few goals, it must have been getting dark because all the colour has leaked out and the trees are silhouettes. The Norfolk pine steals the scene. 2 August 2010.One person out trying their foot at kicking a few goals, it must have been getting dark because all the colour

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Keirle Park, August, 2010

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This is the game with the pointy ball, perhaps this is why it involves a lot of pointing. It seems it rained all of July and most of May so this is the was the first time back at Keirle Park after an absence. 6 August 2010This is the game with the pointy ball, perhaps this is why

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Keirle Park, May, 2010

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Back from school holidays. I was parked facing towards Pittwater Road and Lagoon Park, so that is how the moving cars got in, the other things were seen in the rear view mirror. The No Signs-ing sign may have something to do with the Brunhilda-esque skateboarder, each being modifications of the moment. 5 May 2010Back from school holidays.

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Keirle Park, 29 March, 2010

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Why did I imagine an irregular, tennis racquet island with high cliffs and high seas pounding in from the east? An island with varied terrain, that if hit by an oversize tennis ball would bounce it back into orbit, or at least out to sea? Hard to say, but put it down to Idle Folly and being close

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Keirle Park, 22 March, 2010

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This was looking straight up, out of my car sunroof, into the Norfolk pine. Drawing things directly above one's head is literally a pain in the neck. The lines in the back were the power lines though they look remarkably like mistakes. It was tempting to paint this later at home, to make it work better, or so

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Keirle Park, March, 2010

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This seems remarkably wooden, even for a tree. Something went wrong with the leaves, but I kept digging the hole. It seems to have come out out of bad 1950's commemorative dinner set. 12 March 2010.This seems remarkably wooden, even for a tree. Something went wrong with the leaves, but I kept digging the hole. It seems to

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Keirle Park, 15 February, 2010

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Various qualities of this Norfolk Pine, how it seems to soak up light or emit darkness, the pattern of its fronds, the texture of the bark, is something I find fascinating. 15 February 2010Various qualities of this Norfolk Pine, how it seems to soak up light or emit darkness, the pattern of its fronds, the texture of the

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Keirle Park, February, 2010

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This fellow and another were living out of a van and had just made dinner, nothing too fancy either. They lent the park an air of domesticity that I liked, sitting out in the late afternoon, eating and watching a group kick a ball around. 8 February 2010 This fellow and another were living out of a van

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Keirle Park, December, 2009

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This was touch footie, where the players have tags the opposing playerscan rip off, whereas in normal footie it's usually skin or a body part. This was one of the few games where there was on-lookers. 7 December 2009 This was touch footie, where the players have tags the opposing players can rip off, whereas in normal footie it's

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Keirle Park, 30 June, 2009

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This was a kendo group, an elegant set of master and students, going through their forms. This was the only time i saw them in the park. 30 June 2009This was a kendo group, an elegant set of master and students, going through their forms. This was the only time i saw them in the park. 30... This

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Keirle Park, August, 2009

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I was sitting in my car in the Keirle Park carpoark when this enormous four wheel drive thing pulled up next to me.It reminded me of the giant front-end loader machines I saw when i was doing some consultancy work in a nickel mine , Mt Keith, in the Wheat Belt. It was a fly in- fly out

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Keirle Park, June, 2009

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This is a favourite, not sure why i had this stamp in my kit but it seemed postcard right for the pencil and text sketch of the Norfok pine. It must have been getting dark very quickly for me to race through this and jot down the time. This is a favourite, not sure why i had

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Keirle Park, May , 2009

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Why did it take so long for me to draw to the edge of what I could see? In May the light fades early and here there is that lovely effect of how shadowed things lose colour first. 11 May 2009 Why did it take so long for me to draw to the edge of what I could see?

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Keirle Park, April, 2009

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The skaters and the touch footie crowd, not sure why they are in different colours. 9 April 2009The skaters and the touch footie crowd, not sure why they are in different colours. 9 April 2009 The skaters and the touch footie crowd, not sure why they are in different colours. 9 April 2009The skaters and the touch footie

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Keirle Park, April, 2009

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!st April, 2009. I've got a new packet of textas with brush tips. The text reads ( well, I am guessing a bit here): A part of the parkhides in the sedanpine branches, grassa serried line of trunks,a street lamp just edging in. !st April, 2009. I've got a new packet of textas with brush tips. The

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Keirle Park, February, 2009

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Whoa, pretty dizzy on the perspective, and it seems all I had was a green pen and 3 minutes. Whoa, pretty dizzy on the perspective, and it seems all I had was a green pen and 3 minutes.

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Keirle Park, November 2008

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This one is odd, I am still tending to draw what is inside the car, like my left arm, but I've also scribbled quick sketches of two figures. 3 November 2008This one is odd, I am still tending to draw what is inside the car, like my left arm, but I've also scribbled quick sketches of two figu...

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Keirle Park, October 2008

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I picked this stem of lancelote leaves with small white flowers from the tree, might be a peppermint gum but is a member of the Myrtacaea family, through the sun-roof of my car. 27 October 2008I picked this stem of lancelote leaves with small white flowers from the tree, might be a peppermint gum but is a member

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Keirle Park, July 2008

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The car in winter, thermos o'tea. The car in winter, thermos o'tea.

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Monday Afternoons, Keirle Park

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Introduction Most every Monday afternoon during the school term I take Theo to his tennis lesson at Keirle Park and occupy myself in some way for an hour. Mostly I walk around the lagoon and along the beach promenade or take some work and edit it sitting in the car, or both. Two and a half years ago,

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When Years Take the Stars Away

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If you’re reading this in one-hundred-million, two-thousand and seven AD, that is, after all the stars have inched away, taking their tails of light with them, far off to where the universe strikes a light against what, at the time of writing, has no dimension, the timeless place that time is coming to, I want to tell you