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