Playing with Light

Today I have had great fun playing with light.  I was inspired by the works of Monet.  In particular, Impression, Sunrise.  This work was first shown in 1874 at an independent exhibition organised by a group of artists including Monet, Renoir, and Degas. The show served as an alternative to the traditional, state run Salon,…

Lost in Infinity

    This week:  Some sculpture. There is a bora ring not far from here. The bora ring is a sacred aboriginal ceremonial site with very important cultural meaning. It is a tragic site because (to the best of my knowledge; which is meagre as we have very little recorded history to refer to) there…

Field Trip: Forgotten Suburban Landscape

There are some places we simply absorb.  However, when I stop, linger, and consider them more closely, they seem to speak loudly to me.

My first little pinch pot

I have enjoyed a Beginners Course in Hand Building Pottery with the amazing ceramicist Karen Hannay (another participant in the Samford and Surrounds Arts Trail and Open Studios).  Thank you Karen! I loved working with clay! The little spherical pinch pot made with Raku clay was a natural extension to my recent obsession with circles,…

Moon

As soon as sailing caught on, people noticed that when ships departed over the horizon, their hulls disappeared before their sails.  This gave them the idea that the surface of the ocean was curved and that Earth was spherical, just as the Sun and Moon appeared to be. Ancient Greeks found direct evidence of this…

Beauty in decay

Taking a walk in my garden today I noticed Time has taken its toll on things.  Nature would like to reclaim this place.  Precious pots broken by wind, rain and microscopic lives. Plastic made brittle by the sun.  Entire ecosystems living in concrete cracks.  As my roots have grown deep into our life here, I…

Maths is Everything/ Everything is Maths!

In ancient Greece, students of the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras engaged in deep studies of natural science and self-understanding.  They were called mathematekoi, “those who studied all”.  Since that time, “Maths” has, for most people, restricted its scope to mundane measurement and mere manipulation of quantities. Pythagoras and his followers knew that Number linked all…