El Anatsui at carriageworks

i first saw El Anatsui's work in New York and I loved it. I've since seen it in many museums in many major cities (once you see it you can't unsee it).
Saw a 50 year retrospective today at Carriageworks. Putting my photos here because it will remind me what i saw, and because often my pix go nowhere but back up on google photos!

treasures found in old books

Lost and found: treasure discovered between pages of second-hand books

i'd love to make a book of the things found in books!



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Origami doors... just beautiful!

Amazing Kinetic Doors Unfold Like Origami

I want a door like this!



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Art on sandwich bags

I’m the Dad that draws on sandwich bags | DRLAFERRIERE
he's been doing it since 2008, and has thousands of designs on his kids lunch bags...

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I want a 3d printing pen

3D printing pen that can draw real objects into existence raises over USD 2m on Kickstarter | Springwise

Canadian Mounty Monopoly

This monopoly board is part of a series of monopoly boards i played with (use the search function on my blog to find monopoly and you'll see some).

This particular piece uses monopoly money in the centre. 

It also features a photograph of two Canadian mounties in discussion. I took that photo in Vancouver in 2009 at an art exhibition at the Vancouver Public Library. 

I printed a heap of the Canadian Mounties on photographic paper as free passes for the first improv show I produced for Sydney Fringe in 2010, Pink Ladies.

That little elephant was given to me by a Sri Lankan exchange student who was one of the first boys I ever kissed. I think his name was Kris. or Krys. 

Yes, the dice are stuck on!

Cornell-inspired box

I love Joseph Cornell's work.

After my second trip to Chicago I made this box from a monopoly money-tray. 

It's covered in a map of Chicago, and contains things I mostly picked up from my Dad's desk after he died.

The plastic seal is from when I was creating works for Coastal. I bought a packet of plastic star fish which also included seals and fish. 

The button WTS 05 is from Walking the Street 2005. Walking the street was a festival in Newtown where artists decorated / put works in the windows of the local retailers. I participated a few times. Once at Mailboxes Etc (where I put pictures of Mailboxes) and once at Buzzz bar (where I did a work of coffee cups inspired by having breakfast at Buzzz). 

The words on the beads are from "trying to leave the ground". From Starlings in Winter a poem by Mary Oliver

The plastic chips and the dots with smiles on them are from a book of mind-developing games from Edward de Bono. The watch was my dad's

The metal letter R, asterisk and question mark I bought when I was in a haberdashery in Chicago in 2008. The golf dlub key ring membership tags were my dads. The little wooden dolly I picked up on one of my walks through the back streets of Newtown. It's from an old kid's puzzle.