The end of my sojourn in the country is coming to end. Let’s call it an Artist Residency & Recovery. After five weeks of fairly hectic travelling in France, Scotland and northern England, it was an unexpected joy to land in a little house near Auray for a couple of weeks of quiet rest and
The leaves dance on my notebook as I sit in the dappled shade with a view of the sea. Maybe they’ll inspire some art.
It’s not everyday your offspring end up in a mural. I walked down the laneway next to the art gallery to find her band being very cool on a big wall. She’s the little bass player on the right. If you’re into metal music you might like the band Otrera.
You can’t but love a 1950s record sleeve with bright colours and cartoon dancers. I don’t listen to it often, but I love it sitting there on the shelf promising waltzing good times.
If you look for them, there are good lines everywhere. In the skyline, on walls, in shadows, on the ground. Sometimes they jump out in the right light, showing off their contours in high definition.
I have no idea what the architect intended, but to my eye this is a piano building. I like to imagine there’s a piano on every floor and a giant multi-piano work is performed every afternoon. Or maybe a resident pianist in the lift playing up and down all day.
I joined an online songwriting club a few months ago. We have to write and record a song every week. Doesn’t matter if it’s good or not, you just have to write. Ten weeks later and I’ve written ten songs. Most of them are pretty good. Some of them need a bit more
The giant marble skull outside the Bendigo Art Gallery is really quite fabulous. Entitled ‘Keep On Keeping On’, it sits up on the hill grinning ghoulishly down on the traffic hurrying by.
i do like a sense of humour in art. She’s a pipe dancer.
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I read this beautiful Mary Oliver poem on the back of the toilet door at a friend’s place today. It was such a lovely pause in the middle of an excellent conversation. Like a beautiful vista glimpsed through the window of a gorgeous room.
SUMMER STORY – Mary Oliver
