\nI knew with certainty that I did not want to be pressured by deadlines for the completion of artworks but instead to let my thoughts, research and sampling lead the way.
\nSlowly and surely.<\/p>\n
Over the years I have entered a few (mostly) local exhibitions – always quilt based.
\nI\u2019ve rarely, if ever, had work ready-made to enter, instead it was the entry deadline that forced my hand as a few intense weeks of work propelled me forward.
\nNow a quandary\u2026.
\nDo I make measured and specific work for some of the upcoming shows that tempt me?
\nOr do I hold back and make work that may be exhibited later, some time\/some place?<\/p>\n
This year I\u2019ve kept my eye on entries of various types – printing, drawing, sculpture – but\u00a0 hesitated with quilt exhibitions as quiltmaking has been such a big part of my life so far.
\nThere is an immense personal need to reinvent.<\/p>\n
This thinking may have to change.<\/p>\n
There are a few ARTquilt exhibitions coming up that I could possibly be a part of, \u2028but<\/em> I still want to work to my current themes and thought-lines. Meanwhile, whilst waiting for my Posca\u2019s I have edited and uploaded two more Stargazey patterns on Patternspot<\/a> – Kitez as well as Guyz & Galz – so I\u2019ve made good use of my feather free week.<\/p>\n The Anzac day service at Dwellingup is thankfully a \u2018not dawn\u2019 service – instead it has a respectable mid morning start. The long weekend allowed a bit more reading than is normal, some of it idyllically in our sunny \u2018lounge room\u2019 in our \u2018orchard\u2019. I really should take some pics:)))) Fascinating to read history through this novel – which was first published (very spookily) on April 25<\/strong>, 1719. The scant knowledge of the world and its people back then is both amazing and galling. Amazing resilience, a nostalgic sense of adventure and<\/em> enormous prejudices as seen through current eyes.<\/p>\n
\nDO I want to interrupt what I have already on the go?
\nDO I make a start on some of my many other (black) swan ideas that could easily fit the briefs?
\nOR should I fit my current work to those briefs?
\nI\u2019ve given myself till early May to work it out. It could go either way.<\/p>\n![\"kitez\"](\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/week16-kitezkitez-cover-807x1024.jpg\")
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<\/a>My blog week starts on Monday but this week it went from Monday to Monday – a long weekend prompting a longer week.
\nI\u2019d never been to an Anzac service but this had to be the year.<\/p>\n
\nWe listened to the primary school playing, singing and reading. We listened to the speeches and the sermons and the off-kilter trumpeting as we stood amongst the respectful throng that lined both sides of the main road through town.
\nThe morning tea was a bountiful country style feast and whilst we didn\u2019t tuck in, or wait for the two-up, we chucked money in for some delicious local Pink Ladies (apples) and the obligatory raffle tickets for firewood. It is a lovely little family friendly, inclusive town that we are now happily a part of.<\/p>\n
\nI had started reading Robinson Crusoe<\/strong> by Daniel Defoe after I read in The Making of Home<\/strong> that it is generally credited as being the first novel and that it really did illustrate the making of a home. \u2028I found a copy on my shelves – a primary school prize won by my bloke in 1969.<\/p>\n
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