A Few Birds and Plants

Having gone back to some old photographic processes, in the need to work with my hands more again. I collected some old napkins and a book on foraging called A forager's treasury - A New Zealand guide

Art and Artefact. The Museum as a Medium by James Putnam is just the right book at this point in time, for where I am at with my MFA practice. Over a few blogs I will talk about bits from this book,

Was just reading over some notes I made from To Have and to Hold - an ultimate history of collectors and collecting by Philipp Blom (The Overlooked Press 2003 NY America). and these caught my eye

My epiphany:This blog is not really the learned, well researched blog I am supposed to write for my MFA, but it is a blog to document an insight, a struggle and then a changed moment. It is a blog

As a conscious healthy eater and label reader I am very aware of foods, particularly processed food, that contain unknown things. Really names I cannot pronounce and my general rule is, if I cannot

Had the joy last night of catching a documentary on Maori TV about Ans Westra, the self taught NZ Photographer of Dutch decent. (the pity is we do not have mysky, so was unable to tape this. So did do

Am trying the absorption by stacking them together method!! I must think I am a speed reader!!! or have nothing else to do in life?

Last weekend I had the chance to go and see an exhibition by Kirsty Gardiner at Te Manawa, the Museum of Art,Science and History in Palmerston North. This exhibition got my attention as it was

Peer & Faculty Critique comments from July seminar on this body of work: They liked:limited number of imagesscale- fitted the imagesseparation of light and dark background, but still close enough to

ARTEFACTS as TEXT seminar series - reflections & after thoughts: This seminar series provided the first formal assessment for the parts ones, a re-connecting with the part 3, time to research in

My work that I exhibited in the just finished july seminar were, 6 images: & the extended artist statement for this is: ‘It’s not the things portrayed in a work which make it beautiful, it is its

Back my questions I posed in an earlier blog and some more; So what makes us want to collect in the first place? What does this trigger within us? And why do we change and become more focussed or

Over the weekend I visited the Crossing boundaries exhibition with another printmaker. It had soe inspirational exhibits in it and was good to again visit an exhibition to get ideas about presentation

"It's not the things portrayed in a work which make it beautiful. It is it's spirit" by Alain De Botten

Continuing on from my reading of the book Curiosity and Enlightenment by Arthur MacGregor. I made many discoveries about these cabinets, some that certainly surprised me and others informed my

After doing a bit of reading about the cabinets of curiosities last week  I needed something lighter. I had already decided that another research strand would be Wabi-Sabi. Had found a few books on