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Clever Contiguity in Design - Wood Block Princes

Clever Contiguity in Design - Wood Block Princes

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The thing that makes and the thing that's made are sweet sets. Here is one of the three blocks that made the printed fabric on the lower edge. A morning spent in a wood block print workshop in Jaipur , under the patient tutelage of two adept craftsmen,  whose sense of detail, balance and alignment is enviable, shows
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Who Put the Bull in the Tuk Tuk?

Who Put the Bull in the Tuk Tuk?

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Old Delhi, charismatic and pluralistic when it comes to getting from here to there. Foot, tuk-tuk, motorbike, and yoked beast, here  all in one aperture . This Brahmin bull, with beautiful red horns that match the tuk tuk's roof and such peaceable demeanour seems almost like the tuk-tuk's passenger. Old Delhi, charismatic and pluralistic when it comes to
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Bells Ring, Drums Beat - All Night Vigil in Pushkar

Bells Ring, Drums Beat - All Night Vigil in Pushkar

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At the centre of Pushkar's Camel Fair is religious festival, and at the temples around the  Lake bells ring and drums beat late into the night , the mood,  hypnotic and ecstatic, with the air hazy with smoke from fireworks, crowds of people milling to watch dancers and acrobats, offerings of candles and flowers floating out from the
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The Lovely Honeycombing of Light - Jaali in Rajasthan

The Lovely Honeycombing of Light - Jaali in Rajasthan

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Geometric, tessellated, stone work jaali or jail screens seem to cleverly concentrate any breeze, perhaps its the smaller apertures and the winds want to get out quickly through other doors.  Their lovely articulation of the view, and the implicit invitation to get close and spy on the outside world is not to be underestimated. Geometric, tessellated, stone work
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Mrs Woo-Star dream of Pickled Plums and Rhodophyta

Mrs Woo-Star dream of Pickled Plums and Rhodophyta

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Mrs Woo-Star, aspiring farmer of sea merchandise, sometimes likes to meditate amongst red land plants, here an oversize crop of red shiso, which she likes to imagine is a forest of red algae - though Granny Egg, who regards Mrs Woo-star as an interloper and is still pondering if she her neighbour is serious in her request for
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Sea Murchandising at Brass Acres - The Return of Mrs Woo-Star

Sea Murchandising at Brass Acres - The Return of Mrs Woo-Star

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The last time we saw Mrs Woo-Star she was plain Mrs Woo, and she had taken adverse possession of Brass Acres, the former farm and mise en scene extraordinaire of Bart Brassica ( Vale).  As a result of her addiction to reading PG Wodehouse's tales of Bertie Wooster, with which she finds some affinities to our lost Bart
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Lodhi Garden's Shisha Gumbad

Lodhi Garden's Shisha Gumbad

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Dusk lasts longer is Delhi's Lodhi Gardens, and here I will refrain from mentioning how this is due to  the air being overloaded with particulates, so everything has a romantic haze and all colours are shuffled along into the red spectrum. Lodhi is gorgeous with 15th Century treasures, gardens, people strolling, running (ouch! that air) and the elegance
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Spice Street, Old Delhi

Spice Street, Old Delhi

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Two kinds of dates, golden sultanas, greenish raisins, almonds, walnuts, pistachios, Old Delhi's spice street, pantry, stage set, graphic feast. Two kinds of dates, golden sultanas, greenish raisins, almonds, walnuts, pistachios, Old Delhi's spice street, pantry, stage set, g...
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What the Stylish Camel wears this Autumn

What the Stylish Camel wears this Autumn

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The best dressed camel is tasselled and tessellated with plenty of pom poms, bedecked with beading, tassells trembling, anklets tintinnabulating with each soft camel step. Even the camel's shadow is  sharply stylish.  The camel fair at Pushkar in Rajasthan  is obviously the place to be seen for stylish dromedary. The best dressed camel is tasselled and tessellated with
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The Fabulous Land of Wedding Bling

The Fabulous Land of Wedding Bling

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While there are elegant shops of passamenterie in Florence, for extreme ebullience, for dazzle, for gorgeous excess, for silver sass, for chi-chi chutzpah, for over opulence, for ribbon riot, for graphic gobsmack, the wedding lanes in Old Delhi does it best. My favourite, hmm, either second row down, centre stack, the top wide with of black and silver...
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Buildings as Astronomical Instruments

Buildings as Astronomical Instruments

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What if every new building worked to test or measure a scientific principle?  Each house collected the data that fell on it from the sky?  New Delhi's18th century Jantar Matar, eminently photographic, dedicatedly scientific collection of built things to measure matters astronomical does exactly that.  Bravo to Jai Singh II who built a series of Jantar Matars. What
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Betel Leaf's emphemeral green spiral into the red

Betel Leaf's emphemeral green spiral into the red

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Arrestingly graphic, with a Fibonacci appeal, laid out spirals of betel leaf in Old Delhi's spice market seem to be a role model of green.  Later they will be filled with areca nut and often tobacco. This mix, an addictive pyscho-active tooth rot, with be chewed into a red juice and spat out on the street, red tubercular-esque
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Old Delhi's Colourised Sepia lanes

Old Delhi's Colourised Sepia lanes

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Crumbling chalky wash of colour, infusion of sepia, tangle of cables, glimpse of  faded rickshaw, faded grandeur of old Haveli balconies, it all might be a concoction of filters and collage but this Old Delhi lane was as is.  That atmosphere courtesy of the fine particulates, the chalk wash a leftover from a movie shoot, and yes, that
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Pigeon Napping in Progress in Old Delhi

Pigeon Napping in Progress in Old Delhi

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The somewhat coy and variegated beauty on the left, skittish, curious and confused has been caught flocking with someone else's crowd. Coming in to this high terrace in Old Delhi, her new friends colour matched with the grey sky, she is soon to be seduced by the lush  peckings, nabbed with a net by a careful man who
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Observational Variations on Existence

Observational Variations on Existence

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Jun T Lai's crater rich stainless steel art piece, ropes nearby pieces in a kinetic dance of distortion and a liquid redoing  like a flat kaleidoscope. She calls it Non-Existence, but I think an observant piece like this might be variant of Cogito Ergo Sum, but maybe this is an instance of Video Ergo Sum? Go directly to
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Manhole Covers at 45 Degrees South

Manhole Covers at 45 Degrees South

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Wind blown lake-side sedges seemingly winnowing something seminally Japanese, what the double 's' might be?  A sibilance of lake and leaves, an assurance of storm storage, a winter snow stop, spring shower, summer stormwater course? Queenstown thanks for getting down to the ground with art. Wind blown lake-side sedges seemingly winnowing something seminally Japanese, what the double 's'
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Cloud Nine Berries

Cloud Nine Berries

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In April I walked the Milford Track, setting out deliberately blindsiding the prospect of getting up and over the 1km rise of McKinnon's Pass, as heights give me the heebie-geebies.  While others were extolling me to take in the view, and preferring to pass up on extra vertigo, I looked at around my feet quite keenly. These sweet
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When is Chair Like a Plate of Spaghetti?

When is Chair Like a Plate of Spaghetti?

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An Arne Jacobsen chair elaborated with rope from a show of chairs at the National Gallery of Victoria this July - yes, I know I'm behind hand.  The loops and cascades and casings of string bring to mind a bridal excess and perhaps a comment on the tied-upness of the bridal parties. Or how much spaghetti one might
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Return of the Light _ Milfording

Return of the Light _ Milfording

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Goethe reported last words  'More light, More Light ',  seem lucidly pertinent when taking in Milford Sounds palpable display of sun beams, with its inference that if light is physically manifest we are all made of light, or spare parts from old stars. In any case, the Treasure in back on deck. Goethe reported last words  'More light,
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Poems Flourishing in Polished French - Invitation to Take a Seat

Poems Flourishing in Polished French - Invitation to Take a Seat

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Here we have two types of chairs to sit and read in, same but different, so please get comfy and open up this link to Recours au poeme, at  http://www.recoursaupoeme.fr/essais-chroniques/ping-pong-visages-de-laustralie-carole-jenkins-po%C3%A8mes-et-entretien/marilyne and read away - in English or French.  The translations of these eight poems by Marilyne Bertoncini, poet and translator,  came out of a set of work prepared
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The Soft Soap or No Words LIke Snow Words

The Soft Soap or No Words LIke Snow Words

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Contemplating  Jasper's Sno-Dome Cafe's Soap Center, that neat central caesura suggests a soft peach for each who enter  laundry bags, often so dry each cap leaps. And all  this sibilant silliness before one starts on anagrams: so much fun with words when taken to the cleaners in Canada. Contemplating  Jasper's Sno-Dome Cafe's Soap Center, that neat central caesura
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Cat's Play: Slips in the Perceptual Field

Cat's Play: Slips in the Perceptual Field

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Am I above cat post? No, the transcription errors in this s here, with lines of colour filched, I think,  from the garden, might be a  model for  interference in the perceptual field, and naturally makes me wonder how different is a  cat's perception of the world, and ergo Schrodinger's mind experiment, in which no cat's were harmed,
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