Show Me The Treasure

These two broom, perhaps stilled in mid-sweep from their own bewitched animation, camouflaged by dappled shade, lie on the path beside the Ota River in Hiroshima. The twig broom's no fuss technology has endured millenia, like bread, perhaps because it works. While it would be far-fetched to call it elegant, it has its own endearing aesthetic, a sense

And it's not just blues. It's the pinks, yellows and purples. The idea is terrific and so is the little stick that comes with it but oh la la that rainbow hippy effect is just all too much.Frankly this paper stinks. One good thing about the smell is that it made me seek a better ventilated spot than

Is there something underhanded here? Of late Farmer Bart Brassica has aspired to what Mavis Eggwhistle calls 'floral fiascos', trying to out-style a certain local farmhand's recent success as a horticultural pin-up person. Here Bart is aiming for a dramatic Spanish effect, in the style of the Toledo master of the still life, Juan Cotan. How Bart comes

While there are the obvious pleasure of surf beaches, many visitors miss what is one of the great contemplative treasures of the Australian east coast, the rocky beach headlands with their natural intertidal rock pools. The rock pool is a world in microcosm, a glinting and glorious brilliant home to to dozens of small animals such as anemones,

OK, so on our previous visit to Tanpopo, Julius, one of the chefs, sent out a complimentary and incredibly delicious bowl of tempura for us. We had never ordered the tempura before and perhaps he knew this. So last night I ordered tempura, and set to to sketch what was on the table before it arrived.It might be

This line up of inks, brings with it the question what might be the collective noun for inks. A Writ of Inks, a Well of Inks, a Rorsasch of Inks, a Sink of Inks? If they are lined up do they become a Cortege or a Procession, if they circle are they a Proscenium or an Arch, if

Ok, so what is the conceptual link between the street art in Newtown and the new play by Alana Valentine which has just premiered at the King Street Theatre In Newtown? Something about the creation of roles and personas, the two characters busy creating a third, the omniscient 'eye' being all us theatre-goers sitting in the dark? It

The messy sketchiness of Friday's drawing shows I am spending more time eating and less time drawing, This week ended up with two visits to Tanpopo in Cremorne once on Friday for ramen and on Sunday for grilled king fish and their very good pork belly. We have reached a miraculous point at Tanpopo where the chef sends

Is this large sign a just too honest statement about the dimensional challenges of this advertised hotel room? Or does it refer to the act of poking, of course by which I mean the metaphorical act of not minding one's own business. In any case the room, small or not, is ephemeral and perhaps, in any case, you'd

The signal box, beloved 3-D substrate of the street artist, has been pre-hit up up in Brisbane, leaving both its functionality as a reference point about failed signals and adding local colour. This arty one perhaps is a reference to Alex Harvey's song, Framed? Perhaps not, but still there is an argument that those rollers are a sly

Visiting Brisbane, while there funky shops, wonderful restaurants, stacks of groovy coffee spots, galleries and miles of river to glide over on the Rivercat or the charming City Ferry, a few hours spent meandering the streets will reward you will such classics as these three Queenslanders, all from Brunswick Street. I was preconditioned to notice - well it