here it is
Proud, semi-religious..or maybe would be better to define it as pseudo-new-paganism. A bit too didactic if anything, with the text panels over-killing and spoon-feeding to the limit.. but hey, charltans need to sell it with words alone, no need of facts. Good luck Weed Experiment 3.1, you deserve it..
Coming up, Lempriere hype!
Your work has been selected for a group show which attracts much hype, year after year, here in New South Wales: The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. On the opening night (this coming Thursday) one artist will be selected to be the beneficiary of a hefty $60,00 to undertake a year of study overseas. As […]
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on privet posters, or rather, how you got there via a busy year
Somewhere you read 2008 is the year of getting busy building for the future..uhmm Sure you where busy up to now! This post is just to make a list of what you have been up to so far and a few upcoming events as well. You, reader, might or might not know you are involved […]
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 touring whitlam’s weeds
Canterbury council is organizing a festival along the shore of Cooks River, in Undercliffe, Sydney: R i v e r w o r k s 2 0 0 8 Gough Whitlam Park Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 March Bayview Avenue, Undercliffe (2 minutes walk from Tempe train station) 10am-3pm both days As the organizers say […]
the show
On Wednesday for the opening of the group show there were plenty. It happens when you have group shows. If each brings along ten friends/family you have an instant crowd. This one was even more so, as many of the arrtist involved have a vast network of friends, being active in many circles at various […]
On Science Fairs
Just on the fine line between shaman and charlatan you (w)talked before: The Science Fair at firstdraft 20th February – 8th March 2008 Opening: 20th February 6pm – 8pm Artist Talks: 8th March, 4:30pm Diego Bonetto Marley Dawson Naomi Derrick Anna John Matthew P. Hopkins Vicki Papageorgopoulos Emma Ramsay Matthew Tumbers Alex Vivian Simon Yates […]
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 […]
