wrapping up

Getting close to the end of the trip now! Kent and I have been living in the same room for nearly 3 months, and if you want to see how that has effected our art practice, click here - we made these works at exactly the same time, without any idea of what the other was doing. Spooky, no?

don't think, just paste.

Well, as my trip is winding down, so is my will do do anything but bask in the sunshine. Spring is well and truly here in Berlin, and the prospect of sitting at my pathetic excuse for a table is quite dire. It's picnics all around, though I am now faced with a massive pile of collage material. So I have been having a few fun little sessions of random "grab a head, grab a body and stick it before you change your mind!" - sort of a speed-exquisite-corpse. Brings the productivity levels right up! Now ... to get it all home without blowing my baggage limit. Ew.

SWAPPED!

laserlamb!

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new book!

Mmm! Gotta love that fresh new paper smell, the soft indents from your first marks. Aaaah - bliss! I always vow each time I start a sketchbook "now this one better be awesome", so we shall see!

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growth

sketches

forest face

I have just decided that there is no thing too silly to put on paper. Bushy eyebrows! Hurrah!

dancer in the dark

I showed this work at 'let's have an exhibition at my house' curated by the gorgeous Renee. More details here.

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sketchbook

girabbit

hehehe.

score!

Went to the Sunday market in Friedrichshain yesterday and got me a massive load of joy. Which I then had to carry around for 2 hours, while I trudged through the streets, had a chin scratch at the Berlin Wall, through remembering I left the stove on back in Prenzlauer Berg (a good forty minutes away by public transport), and rushing home. My flat is not burned down after all. Thank bejeezus. And now I have volumes of joy. (And not burnt stock.) Yay!

vogelplosion.

Spring is well and truly here. 

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the traveller

Lately, I have been seeing what I can make out of scraps of collage material, namely, the neverending collection of bird tails I seem to accumulate. Each tail piece is a little bit loose at the end, giving it a nice papery flutter. Mmm!

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the disguise

When I was a kid, my dad went to Perth (maybe - memories from long ago tend to have a slightly invented aspect sometimes) for work (or something - I thought his full time work was 'to make presents, mostly', so what do I know). Anyway, he brought me back a cassette tape (because we used those back then) with a read along book of Aesop's Fables. I practically memorised those stories. This image reminds me a lot of A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, and has brought back all of those memories! (The cassette is long gone I believe, but I still have the rather crumpled and soft paperback in my treasured selection of picture books!) Bless.

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sketchbook

Lately I cannot stop doodling. It's fantastic! So good to get some brain clumps out onto paper and not worrying about the consequences. As a result, it's been great inspiration for more developed works, as well as a break for my pathetic little wrist from all that cutting. (Some detailed collages still to come!) It all feels very girly, especially with the pink page (which is no longer just pink), but sometimes it's nice to feel like a girl don't you think?