(black) swan – My Blog

Rushed/compressed VS considered/unharried

20 Mar

This post, the first post for well over a year, was planned to record my first of four artwork series for the 2019 iteration of The December Gallery. Each series became a part of the exhibition ‘Seeds from Home’. I ... Read more »

becoming irregular

23 Jan

Jan Mullen

(January 22 – 2018) It is a new year and my posts have lost regularity. Between you and me, I thought that the next time I posted could be the last time. For the time being though, writing here is ... Read more »

self imposed torture

1 Nov

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY TWO & FORTY THREE ( october 16-29) Deadlines are pressure to work. The self imposed deadline of December 1 for the opening of The December Gallery is scarily close. I have until then to finish all the work ... Read more »

still absorbing and still challenging me

16 Oct

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY & FORTY ONE ( october 2-15) In between all that the last two weeks held, the Sulphur Crested Cockie trio have continued to absorb and challenge me. They still morph continually. I think that I can see the ... Read more »

ramped up creating vs a sense of loss

3 Oct

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY EIGHT & THIRTY NINE (september 18 – october 1) This is the first time I’ve had a week off producing this self imposed and totally self-directed post (conversation) via this blog. I was relieved that on a long ... Read more »

another brew is festering

19 Jun

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY FOUR (june 12-18) I’ve spent another few sessions searching, searching, searching for woollen fabrics. I have three strong contenders for the next production of K1P1#3 (and #4 &#5). The next will likely come down to ‘match’ of size ... Read more »

attuned to colour, light and shadow

13 Jun

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY THREE (june 5-11) The week started with a photo shoot…it was WA day/a public holiday but as the bloke was off for the week playing golf, and I had finished K1P1#2 in a timely manner, and especially because ... Read more »

breaking cycles / break through

18 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK FIFTEEN (april 10-16) The week was FULL before it started and very inconveniently, bouyed by the recent weeks of art making, my noggin was firing and had me ready/itching to get back into making mode immediately. Which idea? Which ... Read more »

felled feather bounty

10 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK FOURTEEN (april 3-9) Finally I have finished Knit One Purl One and it is not until I have seen it a few times, viewing with others, that I have lost my ‘attachment’ to it and can begin to feel ... Read more »

so many photos

28 Nov

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY-SEVEN (november 21-27) Finally the Mongolia photos have all been through a first round of processing and editing. There was a BIG pile of deleting but there are also a very large amount of ‘bad’ photos kept because they ... Read more »