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Blackwattle Boy: Kauri Foreshore Hotel
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When are you from here? Sunday, September 25, 2011. I wittily quipped "You're managing a fucking toilet" and she reposted "Don't come back" as I walked out. I realised she thought that being in this rundown messy dive was a good thing and that by agreeing that I won't be going back she was causing me some inconvenience rather than confirming my thoughts and feelings about the place. I once heard a punter sing a beautiful a cappella version of Walk On By in that pub . . . better days? Art and My Life.
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Blackwattle Boy: Crown Lynn at the Gus Fisher Gallery
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When are you from here? Saturday, November 5, 2011. Crown Lynn at the Gus Fisher Gallery. As Ed Hillary is reputed to have said "that's knocked that bugger off". I did the speech on Friday night at the official opening and then the floor talk on Saturday. Both were nervewracking - the speech mercifully short, the floor talk endless but more or less finished on time. I got to meet some interesting people and the events were more fun than I remember openings being in my National Art Gallery days.
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Blackwattle Boy: The bullied become bullies - hurt people hurt people.
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When are you from here? Thursday, November 24, 2011. The bullied become bullies - hurt people hurt people. Almost two years after I first wrote it I've decided to delete it as it was so very much of the moment when I wrote it that it seems indulgent to prolong its existence. I think I need a "This too shall pass" delay button that strongly encourages me not to post in haste. The Govt. here is proposing psychological tests for prospective teachers. November 24, 2011 at 7:08 AM. Art and My Life.
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Blackwattle Boy: April 2011
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When are you from here? Saturday, April 30, 2011. On death and dying. Image: Points of Departure - Margaret Elliot. Tony Carr Collection - Sydney. An email from a friend:. Before I Forget…. Message From a Fellow-Traveller:. I don’t know – but certainly not the ‘me’ that is sitting at the keyboard right now typing this message. I hope that the cancer kills me before the ischemic disease progresses much further. It is the very last and greatest adventure, I guess … but one with an unknown ending: Ind...
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Blackwattle Boy: Ganesha
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When are you from here? Monday, September 19, 2011. For a long time - 30 years or so - I've been attracted to Ganesha - I've never known why but on Friday I walked into a shop where Ganesh was playing - I was given a CD called 'Ganesh - He Listens, He See, He cares' and a prasad ladoo Ganesha's favourite sweet - I bought some red mukhwas and some ganeshania and then went to buy some clay-based paint for the outside of our home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Art and My Life. Dawan, Chawan, Chassabal.
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Blackwattle Boy: November 2011
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When are you from here? Thursday, November 24, 2011. The best things in life are not things. Further to my last post I find myself forced to look more closely at my own capacity for violence, for abusive, manipulative and intimidatory behaviour. I recall with the shame the moments when I have chosen the easy option of repeating the behaviours forced into me as a child rather than the more difficult and rewarding path of taking responsibility for how I am and choosing to make the good overrule the bad.
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Blackwattle Boy: March 2011
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When are you from here? Monday, March 28, 2011. There's something very exciting about loud repetitive noise - especially when heard in common with a large group of like-minded people. Like this. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Earth, Fire and Water". Old brickmakers used to fire a test load of bricks probably in a clamp kiln and only when they'd cooled would know whether they'd "answered". Experience would tell them whether a clay was likely to answer but there was always uncertainty. Friday, March 18, 2011.
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Blackwattle Boy: November 2010
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When are you from here? Wednesday, November 10, 2010. This is the batch from last term that were glazed this term. I'd loaded one of them up with celadon glaze which didn't take. I think I should've rinsed off the pot as it must have collected some dust between the bisque and glaze firings. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Art and My Life. Dawan, Chawan, Chassabal. Life on waterfall road. Love is a symbol. Over the net and on the table. 12288;Euan The Potter. View my complete profile.
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Blackwattle Boy: The best things in life are not things
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When are you from here? Thursday, November 24, 2011. The best things in life are not things. Further to my last post I find myself forced to look more closely at my own capacity for violence, for abusive, manipulative and intimidatory behaviour. I recall with the shame the moments when I have chosen the easy option of repeating the behaviours forced into me as a child rather than the more difficult and rewarding path of taking responsibility for how I am and choosing to make the good overrule the bad.
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Blackwattle Boy: June 2011
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When are you from here? Saturday, June 18, 2011. Kirtan Yoga with Sri Prahlada @ Yoga in Daily Life Kensignton. We went to this event - it was lovely - this man. I usually use the apparent beauty or ugliness of strangers to judge where I am on the bi-polar spectrum continuum but an evening of kirtan freed me from this - there was just me, us, and the universe of possibility. I realised too late that I've been thinking that the unveiling was planned for Sunday. I sent my message to Ewa too late - abou...
