Wednesday 26 March 2014

how does your garden grow?

yesterday i drove down to Murray Bridge
to install my pieces for the exhibition

How Does Your Garden Grow?
glimpse of the catalogue
 i was accompanied by my "assistant"
who voraciously consumed quantities of milk while busily charming the socks off the gallery crew
glimpse of the cat
 but fortunately fell asleep long enough for me to paint my poem on the wall
[using an indigo-flavoured milk and lime mix]
nightsongs [text]
nightsongs
 when not otherwise occupied, Yoda practiced yoga
here's what the rest of my work looks like
cloud

each precious drop [detail]

each precious drop [detail]

each precious drop [detail]

each precious drop [detail]

each precious drop [detail]

each precious drop [installation view]


please join us there on Sunday March 30 at 2.30 to see the work of Dana Kinter, Petrus Spronk, Morgan Allender and Matthew Bradley[and mine in reality as opposed to batfone-snaps]

at the end of the day my assistant was exhausted

  
me too.


PS the bones were donated by Ginger, a jersey cow who died from natural causes [i think snakebite counts as natural in Australia] some years ago and who was buried respectfully but whose remains were exposed after a vicious north wind that blew the mound away.


27 comments:

  1. I think this is my favourite (via batphone) installation of yours experienced to date.... I'm loving the indigo/milk poetics... and shadow bones ....

    that the post comes complete with kitty is a bonus

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  2. This is beautiful India .... I think I recognise Yoda's yoga position too .... I had to laugh ....

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  3. Oh my. Poetry in every form, I think. The kitty.

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  4. Loving it and deeply touched as I face a very long season of drought ahead.

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    1. Agreed the situation in California is grim to say the least

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  5. That installation looks just amazing... and the poem speaks to me, also. As for the kitten! Cuter than the average button!

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  6. india you are a very good exhibitor too, i wounder what you have done with bones very interesting - all of it. the face of the kitten are wounderful

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  7. Your kitten is just about the cutest thing ever. Lovely work too.

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  8. The exhibition looks fantastic! I would love to visit - for obvious reasons....I can't. Maybe you're going to publish a catalogue?
    Have a great day, best wishes from eva

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    1. A catalogue has been published by the curator - you might be able to negotiate a copy by emailing the gallery

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  9. beautiful and meaningful, very impressive, I am in awe, you are so busy and productive.

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  10. love the dripping shadows making a splash

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  11. So beautiful.. and that kitten you should scoop it up and take it home with you!

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    1. My daughter scooped it up from somewhere else...I was on grandma duty and working at the same time

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  12. AND fieldnotes arrived today .. huge excitement .. it is beautiful, India, and also, on first read, it took me back to what your work is really about ... so, thank you for all of it.

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    1. Wow that was quick ! Thank you for the kind words me dear

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  13. "The force Luke, the force!". Sorry, couldn't resist! Lol! Little Yoda is a cutie and does resemble his/her namesake. Anyway, as usual I've sidetracked myself---your work is exquiste as usual---the poetry and textiles. You are one very talented woman.

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  14. Kittens, textiles and poetry...what a gorgeous combination!

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  15. Am quite taken with that cat-napping-sack + teeny tootsies flung in the air ... but still, not enough diversion to take away the deep meaning of poem, pini, and bones from the sky. phew. dang fine stuff.

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  16. Beautiful, love the way you have hung your work.

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  17. a month + late and a garden dry i would love to be there. thanks for the peek.

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  18. Wish I was close enough to come to the exhibition - looks wonderful. And kitty assistant is so gorgeous my heart melted. I wonder if I can sneek another kitten into the house without my husband noticing?

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  19. I so wish I could be there to see it all in person, but what I can see here is enough to touch me deeply...

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  20. Fabulous exhibition; your assistant exquisite! I just love kittens! x

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