Reflecting on doors, entrances and exits, endings and new beginnings.
Read MoreLa Filature du Pont de Fer door ~ holding up a worker's rights poster from my woven artist book
France
Kobo paper pinpricked and backlit on a window for l'exposition
L'exposition
in Storytelling, Paper
My exhibition to honour the spirits of the women from the Lasalle spinning mills where I had my artist residency.
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Two strikes lead up to the peel of church bells, Lasalle
Écoute
Today is le quatorze juillet, the 14th July. In Australia we call it Bastille Day (after the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution) but in France it is referred to as la fête nationale (national day) and as such is a public holiday.
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Handmade kozo paper with holes marked and paper chatterboxes
Le Danse
When things are flowing, you feel like you are dancing. Ideas flow from one thought to the next. Suddenly you are brim full, your body performing a dance of hands…
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The warped grid of the concertina artist book installed on the floor in the afternoon light.
Fail better
in Sound, Artist Residencies, Paper
Today I thought about failure and about the process you go through as you creatively work through your ideas.
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Words on the window. I only just noticed I spelt la fontaine wrong. Quel dommage!
Words, words, words
When I was in primary school, my grade four teacher called me windbag because I talked so much.
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View from the living room window
Le Gîte
Its Monday morning and the weekly market has set up radiating out from the centre of town near the church, filling the streets
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One of the circular graines de vers à soie boxes. You can see the pin hole marks up close.
Hunting and Collecting
in Sound, Artist Residencies, Paper
The first part of any new project is reconnaissance ~ that's a French word meaning preliminary surveying or research from the verb reconnaître,
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Une petitie chocolaterie in Bretagne, France
Finally, France!
After finally arriving in France via La Rochelle we did a quick trip to Brittany to conclude our tour of neolithic sites in the UK and Brittany, France.
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Artist Residency in Lasalle, France. An old silk factory.
Sometimes you win....
I am getting ready for a big three month art excursion to new and exciting places. This photo is of La Filature du Pont de Fer…
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