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 […]
mark’s green friend
My grandmother was such a great thumb. THis plant was one of few she gave me years ago, and the beginning of my personal love of plants. Nanna nena, my grandmother, passed away late last year, so this plant is extra special now. Like she lives with me in my studio. Mark, Camperdown
on taking down websites and rigging up potplants
well well, the webmaster for weeds.org.au (the online resource for the government’s agency which deals with weeds in Australia, Weeds Australia) decided to censor you. Here’s how it happened: To whom it may concern A website at the address http://www.weedyconnection.com/ contains material (images and text) sourced and copied directly from the Weeds Australia (http://www.weeds.org.au/) website. […]
on The Hanging Gardens and Other Tales
Do you have a potted friend that means something special to you? Perhaps a hanging succulent that’s followed you from one home to the next? Would you like your plant’s story to be part of an exciting new project about these oftenoverlooked neighbours? … Then we’d love to hear from you. Contact the artists: Karl […]
on Tribulus Terrestris
You are subscribed to many lists and groups with a focus on foraging or plants as medicinal aids and more. One of this is a MSN Group, Healing Herbs. In it several contributors share their knowledge while other users ask questions. You have been reading lots of fantastic postings from Julia in this group, one […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
on talks, other’s weeds and old pictures
You are giving a talk about your practice as part of the Artist’s Talks session in conjunction with the latest show: Saturday 8th of march, 4.30pm FirstDraft Gallery, 116-118 Chalmers St, Surry Hills, NSW You are grossly unprepared for this one, at the moment working full time installing Fiona Hall at the MCA, leaving little […]
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 […]
