\nOur decision to have everything online is a strong one. It will have longevity, it can be viewed around the world, it becomes a strong reference for everyone and is cost free for the viewer. Doing this is, however, is a large amount of work for our tiny committee but<\/em> with a brilliant graphic designer and free flowing curatorial advice we are doing fine….fingers crossed that there are no more<\/strong> hiccups to come ….<\/em><\/p>\n
As you may know I have been tossing and turning and to-ing and fro-ing in regards to entering a second work in OZQUILT’s AW5. I have done it. I stepped up a gear and got to it late on Friday – just before I packed the car to escape down south – the money was quickly transferred and I uploaded both entries.
\nIt did feel good to have completed two entries despite the consistent indecision.
\nIt was, in the end, a close call.
\nThe pieces ended up being variations\/combinations of two themes that I am working with which is quite satisfying. Both now wear the monikers of ‘feathering the nest’.<\/p>\n
The winding down<\/em><\/strong> came after the constant flurries of the week, after the bloke arrived home earlier than usual, and after we hurriedly packed his wagon.<\/p>\n It is chilly down south now and we feel the seasons keenly up in the hills away from Freo’s more moderate coastline. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"intense](\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/week-21-1-2.jpg\")
<\/a>Technique-wise they were a departure for me technically whilst still working to theme. Departures are good. I expect to work in this flibberty-gibbet manner in the future….. some of the time.<\/em>
\nMy priority now<\/span> is not to chase exhibition inclusion in this rushed manner but to build up a body of work exploring one ‘feathering’ thought line before diverging to the next lightning bolt of inspiration. I’d like to have finished works ready and waiting for an easy pluck from the perfect storage system BUT<\/strong> as you can plainly see, I can and will likely always segueway into another branch of either subject matter, or technique, or task, as desired or needed.
\nFlexibility is THE positive substitution for flibberty-gibbet, so my dream of the moment, post twentyONE+, is to work solidly on producing relevant bodies of work almost solely for my own edification….. we’ll see how that works!!!!<\/p>\n
\nWe pull out the warmest and woolliest things to wear, we walk with jackets zipped tightly, we play with firewood stacks constantly, and we sleep easily with the electric blankets left on all night.
\nThe snuggly doonas are now weighed down by winter quilts – the summer cotton ones are useless at this time of year. I need to make at least one more kingsize woolly quilt asap…..hmmmm – can’t even bring myself to put that on my toDo list!<\/p>\n<\/a>This weekend had all of the usual rhythms……a walk to the co-op, passing the horse floats that park at the oval every weekend whilst the hoofed and heeled ride locally.<\/p>\n<\/a>My usual backyard ‘forest floor’ exploration showed up a bigger number and increasing variety of ‘mushrooms’.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>The little wrens and fantails are still flitting and trilling outside the kitchen window and the ‘let’s leave the chores’ river walk showed the result of a big week of rain.<\/p>\n