meetings....

 The last few days have been all meetings meetings meetings... 

Yesterday I was at Bermagui...

 

Arts Network meeting - special guests included Elizabeth Rogers (CEO Regional Arts NSW), Libby Christie (Australia Council Executive Director Arts Funding), Lindy Hume (Sydney Festival Director, chair South East Arts).....

 Bermagui ('bermy') is one town over from my hometown... a small fishing port (and now the fishing industry has all but collapsed.... so it's a town in transition...)

(looking through the boats and water toward Gulaga and my home at Sams Creek - to the left and at the base of the mother mountain)


As soon as I got home it was phone meeting time - with the director of Byron Bay Writers Festival - trying to work out details of my forthcoming appointment as festival artists in residence...... hmmmmmmmm its going to be 'interesting' - I'm very much having to make my own way with this residency (and as the inaugural AiR I am feeling a bit of the pressure to 'get it right'...... ahhh if only I had more time.... only a few weeks until I have to hit the road and weave a bit of booky magic... yikes)



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down monash way....

 Winter Symposium 2011

day time - talk talk talk ....
night time - talk talk talk ....

 mulled red wine

 this year - a small collaborative book project to punctuate the talk talk talk.....

 

 (my contribution)

 

lovely covers and book collation by Rosalind Atkins

(lovely)

then home again home again

(yay)

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winter symposium 2011....

Only a few days until I have to head off on my annual sojourn to university.... I know I shouldn't whine - I only have to take my body off to uni for a couple of days each year - it shouldn't be too onerous eh? welllllll I guess it wouldn't be, if only I liked leaving my creek home!!!!! (which I most definitely DO NOT!!!!)


ahhhh me!

I have been preparing small sections of my latest BIG booky project to keep my fingers busy in between all the presentations.... I think better when my fingers are kept busy....

This week I've been working on my presentation. I like to be VERY prepared.... so I have created a power point AND an i-photo album for i-pad  (this year I'm hoping to plug in either my i-pad or i-phone to the digi projector and take it from there). In order for my talk to seem quite fluid and natural, I don't write a formal speech as such, instead I practice what I want to say over and over again, refining the contents and then I write a few notes to use as prompts... The public speaking part of presenting actually doesn't faze me at all, but that's because I DO prepare so damn thoroughly!

I just wish there was a way for me to prepare for leaving my kidlins behind, or avoid the guilt factor of leaving my partner to shoulder a huge workload in my absence... and how to avoid the shocking homesickness I experience every time I leave my creek home...

I'm never going to be a worldly vagabond traveller...

I'm just a simple creek girl who doesn't like to be away from her creek home.....


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piercing and binding

 I've started to pierce all the sections that have white spines....

I'm still cutting and folding and bundling encyclopaedia pages (so many yet to do) but I have hatched a cunning plan to start binding this monster.... as I will be commencing the binding with the sections that sport the purest white spines - I've got enough of these already stacked to let me start piercing and binding....

Today I start the binding....

ahead of me stretches months more of cutting and folding and bundling and sorting and piercing and sewing.....

slow work

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still cutting, folding, bundling....

lots and lots of little bundles....

 

 roughly colour sorting as a cut and fold and bundle...

soon I will be able to start to pierce and bind.... 

the slow and quiet work continues

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slow work...

long hours of quiet work...

cutting, folding, bundling, adding wood to the fire, cutting folding, bundling, watching old movies, listening to new podcasts, cutting, folding, bundling, helping with kiddies homework, listening to deadly trombone practice, cutting, folding bundling, moving lap cat,  cutting, folding, bundling, thinking, breathing, loving process....

cutting, folding, bundling...

changes....

I've recently got word that my super supervisor Susan Purdy is going on extended leave and as a result Rodney Forbes (head cheese of Art and Design at Gippsland) is taking over supervision of my research project..... so I expect a few hiccups in the transition...

oh and in a couple of weeks its time to head off to the annual winter symposium in Churchill.... time to get all my arty bits together (and give the car a service... its looooooong trip through the boonies..... and to get seek out some winter thermals.... it's mighty ccccccool in Churchill in June...)


I've started preparing encyclopaedia pages for an new (big) booky project -

hopefully I'll have enough bits prepared to take along to uni and, like last year, I'll be able to fill in my 'downtime' with a bit of binding.....


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