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july 2011

Packing before moving, getting rid of stuff and art. Returning unfired clay casts made for The__Hall back to the ground.

After five years of no-dig bed making and soil building - the soil I’ll leave behind…

Preparing the garden for seeds
I vow with all beings
to nurture the soil to be fertile
each spring for the next thousand years

- Robert Aitken

2011 09 24

growing
ongoing

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june 2011

Train travelling to Brisbane for some winter warmth.

Inversions workshop with Jessica Stickler
Handstand, forearm balance, headstand & shoulderstand.
Jivamukti Yoga, Newtown

Winter Mushroom Workshop
with Will Borowski
Alexandria Park Community Centre
Milkwood Permaculture

2011 07 11

learning
looking
travel

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april 2011 (continued)

7/4/11-24/4/11

ANNA JOHN
IAKOVOS AMPERIDIS
LISA KELLY
SACH CATTS

55 Sydenham Rd
Marrickville NSW 2204 AU

Life Signs

1. Throughway for a lizard

On the 2nd of March I made a first visit to 55 Sydenham Rd. We sat in the space and had a long chat about the effort that went into renovating and constructing the studios and gallery, what kind of work we were doing when we were both in the M.H Franks Upholstery building studios in Camperdown back in the Nineties and the increasing drift of artist-run spaces out to Marrickville. We reflected on the disquieting role of artist-run initiatives in the gentrification of neighbourhoods - triggering the urban change that ultimately displaces artists and other poorer locals.

Looking around the room for points of interest, I found a small hole passing right through the concrete floor to the level below. It was described how during the months of building work a lizard was seen coming up through this hole, crossing the room and under the wall to another part of the building.

A hole in the new gallery wall temporarily restores the potential passage of a lizard across the upper floor of an industrial warehouse building in Marrickville.

2011 07 07

exhibition
group projects
individual projects
looking
sculpture

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may 2011

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Walking in the back streets of Enmore and noticing a mature macadamia tree in a front yard. A nice man coming out of his house says “Want some nuts?” Sharing them with Michelle Margolis when I get to her house for a garden tour as part of National Permaculture Day, May 1st 2011.

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Taking a self-sown mulberry tree for a walk along Parramatta Rd and planting it alongside the Hawthorne Canal bike path for future fruit foraging. May 1st 2011.

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Admiring the many mushrooms up after all the autumn rain.

Reading:

Mycelium Running:
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
by
Paul Stamets
Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, California 2005

‘Year-round, fungi decompose and recycle plant debris, filter microbes and sediments from runoff, and restore soil. In the end, life-sustaining soil is created from debris, particularly dead wood. We are now entering a time when mycofilters of select mushroom species can be constructed to destroy toxic waste and prevent disease…’ p.10

2011 05 01

growing
learning
looking
reading
walking

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april 2011

photo: Lucas Ihlein

Moving the steel tree guards made for The Lively Plane (continued) over to the Tending garden for a second life as supports for climbers.

photo: Lucas Ihlein

Positioning the frames around the three palm trees in the SCA courtyard and noticing surprisingly old initials and dates carved into two of the trunks - W.L. 19-1-44, W.L. 11-10-46, D.M. 1-12-44, among others.

2011 04 28

growing
sculpture

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january - december 2010

gone fishing_merimbula_summer 2010

One year off.

Field left Fallow

Some notes on a year off art practice.
January - December 2010

2010 04 12

growing
learning
looking
ongoing
resting

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october 2009 | week four

THE LAB

THE LAB_symbol

Open residency project
Ocular Lab
West Brunswick

WEEK FOUR

week four_outside view
week four_inside view

NOTES.

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Adding the post-dinner loo bucket full of wet sawdust and wee to the growing heap. Seeing my regular route through the weeds now visible as a pathway at the compost site. Replacing the toilet bucket, topping up sawdust and cleaning the loo.

2010 03 09

growing
individual projects
installation
looking
reading
residency
sculpture
studio practice
travel

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october 2009 | week three

THE LAB

THE LAB_symbol

Open residency project
Ocular Lab
West Brunswick

WEEK THREE

THE LAB_week three_outside view
THE LAB_week three_inside view

NOTES.

week two_honey wagon week two_bucket contents
week two_weedings week two_compost making
week two_bucket on compost week two_weeds on compost
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Riding week two’s collected toilet and organic material back to the compost site on Thea’s bike as honey-wagon. Weeding the overgrown house garden and feeding it to the heap, enjoying time in the sun and air outside in this grassy meadow.

2009 11 22

exhibition
growing
individual projects
installation
looking
reading
residency
sculpture
studio practice
travel
writing

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october 2009 | week two

THE LAB

THE LAB_symbol

Open residency project
Ocular Lab
West Brunswick

WEEK TWO

THE LAB_week two_outside
THE LAB_week two_inside

NOTES.

week two_clover sprouting week two_clover sprouting inside
week two_clover after rain week two_clover growth
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Clover seeds pushing up through soil and sprouting.

week two_red rose week two_red rose opening
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The red rose Bianca brought on my first day, opening and changing.

2009 10 28

dialogue
group projects
growing
individual projects
installation
looking
reading
residency
sculpture
studio practice
travel

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october 2009 | week one

THE LAB

THE LAB_symbol

Open residency project
Ocular Lab
West Brunswick

WEEK ONE

week one_street view
week one_room view

NOTES.

week one_day one week one_foam
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For the first week it felt right to observe things as they were in the Lab. The given conditions, the objects in the room when I arrived - a plinth, a ladder, a trestle table, an amplifier and some foam - and the movement of light and air into and through the space. It was surprising how much was going on in and at the edges of an empty room. I felt no need to remove the objects, figuring I’d wait to see who had left them and what they might be useful for. For the first few days I was strongly mindful of the practices of Thea Rechner and John Borley, as I paid attention to air and light and sat on the front step with the doors open making eye contact with passing drivers.

2009 10 20

individual projects
installation
looking
reading
residency
sculpture
studio practice
travel

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july 2011

2011 09 24

june 2011

2011 07 11

april 2011 (continued)

2011 07 07

may 2011

2011 05 01

april 2011

2011 04 28

january - december 2010

2010 04 12

october 2009 | week four

2010 03 09

october 2009 | week three

2009 11 22

october 2009 | week two

2009 10 28

october 2009 | week one

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