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February
  The bits of stuff that fall in the cracks between Life, Music and Outrageous Fortune.
 
     
 

The sorry remains of my sock will be given a decent burial..
What the world didn't need..
26.2.13 - It was six months or more back when I lost a sock. I'm not in the habit of losing socks so it's remained an irritation that it hasn't subsequently turned up and resumed its rightful place in the socks drawer. Not to mention I now have a spare sock proferring gratuitous advice in snarky tones.
A week ago I noticed the washing machine was struggling - and then the spin cycle refused to spin altogether. I've had the machine for perhaps twenty years now, so I contemplated getting a new one. Something persuaded me to get an appliance man out first - and he discovered the missing sock stuck in the motor. I call that a sock-cessful outcome.
 
     
 

1) Our favourite - Maarten Baas' plastic chair in wood 2) The electroluminescent prayer rug

3) The very original PuzzlePerser jigsaw carpet 4) The whimsical blow away vase with distorted Delft patterns
Another two days of cultural visitations
6.2.13 - Maria was keen to see the New Olds: Design between Tradition and Innovation exhibition at the RMIT Gallery, so yesterday we popped into the old Storey Hall in Swanston St, scene of many a Spectrum/Murtceps and Ariel gig in the '70s, to check it out. I have to say that furniture exhibitions, and I've seen a couple of exceptional historic ones over the last year or so, have an immediate numbing effect on my artistic receptors - furniture is furniture is furniture when all is said and done.
The layout of this one wasn't encouraging either, but after I'd slowed myself down and allowed the various exhibits to sink in I was rewarded with some quirky alternatives to the usual banality we expect of furniture.
Today we braved the heat to go to the Heide Museum of Modern Art and see the Louise Bourgeois exhibition. Bro' Dick saw it a while back and wasn't overly enthused about it and, not being a sculpture enthusiast myself I was a little apprehensive.We had a very pleasant lunch in Café Vue before stumbling into the exhibition itself, which was spread over Heides' 1 and 2.
I was wholly enthused and converted, possibly helped by the fact that scarcely anything on display fitted my preconceptions about sculpture. Heide 1 had a mixture of exhibits in different mediums by Bourgeois with the signature over-sized spider being the central motif. Heide 2 had smaller works from Bourgeois alongside Bourgeois-inspired works by local artists Del Kathryn Barton, Pat Brassington, Joy Hester and Patricia Piccinini amongst others.
Maria said that it's something of a coup for a small-ish venue like Heide to have such an important show and she should know. I reckon it's a must see.
 
     
     
 
 
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