Moment rair (moo-ment ra-ir) piedmontese for Rare moments
pic from Lady-Bug This poem below was dedicated to you from a blog in Piedmontese, the language you grew up with. You are flattered, it’s about a walk by two small lakes, the vegetation, and the silent of nature. You can read the Italian translation here.. You’re not going to translate it any further than […]
on fairy rings, endangered ecosystems and four-leaf clovers
The rain gave reason to mushrooms to flourish this season. Our urban parks are filled with the most prolific displays, like this one, a fairy ring of Blewits (Lepista Nuda and Lepista saeva). Cab’s Wild Food Page, a UK based foraging site, says of this mushrooms: Probably the most popular wild mushroom in many parts […]
about above
A show finished last Saturday at First Draft, where three artist presented three distinctive and unrelated bodies of work. You enjoyed all three, for different reasons, Leah McPherson’s flip-book short films, a fantastic editing exercise activated by viewers, Josy Cavallaro’s flimsy visual statements and commentary on semantic peculiarities..which reminded you of speech bubbles, and Kirsten […]
on the right ones
We went mushrooming again, we filled an 8 seater and off we ventured on the highway all the way to Belanglo State Forest. View Larger Map The day was cool but sunny and the mood was festive even if we all raised very early in attempt to beat the competition. But no competition was found, […]
on pies and the lack of fingers
There’s going to be another tour tomorrow, two actually, at 12 and 1pm. The WeedyConnection project is been invited as one of the artistic component for the Cook River Festival 2008, organized by the Marrickville Council. Noticeable is that this festival is basically on the other shore of the Cook River from the Riverworks Festival […]
on black locust seed pods, african olives and pointing at smaller ones
Autumn’s in full swing now, the temperature dropping while sunsets linger on in luminous displays. In you garden the old Robinia Pseudoacacia is dropping its seedpods, the few left which survived a year-round foraging practice of the resident Brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). The long branches were raided in several waves, for the young shoots first, […]
on the ones you didnt know
Autumn slowly draw the curtain at a humid and stormy summer, the forests of australia sprouting mushrooms at a rate not been seen from a while. So much rain we had in the past 8 months, more than many years’ averages. We went to the Belanglo State Forest, looking at the place you read about […]
about what happen to the people who know this land better than anyone about a culture which lasted for longer then any other about a colonialist attitude to land and its inhabitant. every time i step a foot on the land of australia. Hopefully this official apology will sweeten the bitter taste of guilt.
on sowthistle
Pic from the Royal Botanic Garden Herbarioum AKA: DE : Kohl-Gänsedistel ; ES : cerraja común ; FR : laiteron maraîcher ; IT : grespino comune, sonco ; PT : serralha-macia ; EN : smooth sow-thistle ; NL : gewone melkdistel ; DK : almindelig svinemælk This is one of two Sonchus spp. (Sowthistles) that […]
on windows of opportunity
Coming up this saturday is a fantastic event: Gang! Gang takes its name from the Indonesian word meaning alleyway or small side street and commenced life in 2005 as a celebration of the deep links between independent art spaces and collectives across the two countries. This years festival is called “ART DAY IS TODAY†after […]
