carpe diem 2013 - 22...

red (carved) book

sitting among in the silverbeet

a red cross book for a garden in need of first aid

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carpe diem 2013 - 21

Wallagoot Lake

Bournda National Park

 click to embiggen

I took my gal on her school excursion 

to learn about marine life at Bournda Environmental Education Centre

she went dip netting... and I dipped some things of my own...

one coptic bound circular 'book' form

created from pages of Childcraft volume

'Science at Work'

temporarily placed beside some of the many moon jelly fish

of Wallagoot Lake

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finito...

yesterday

along with my ever-ready, uncomplaining studio assistant

we packed up and moved out .....

codex infinitum - the infinite book 

is now....

  

(pic was sent to my phone this morning from my dear mate neale - 

who had the fun job of peeling off the vinyl sign)

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carpe diem 2013 - 20...

 Eight Encyclopaedia Britannica surround the mulberry bush

thirty minutes (and countless consumed ripe mulberries) later..

 

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carpe diem 2013 - 19...

42 pages from 'how to  earn a living in the visual arts'

folded into 42 paper cranes

and arranged as a spiral

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codex infinitum - the infinite book....

my solo exhibition

opened October 10 at Switchback Gallery

lets take a tour shall we....

the gallery entrance is now guarded by my book pillars

Pulvis et umbra sumus - 'we are dust and shadow'

inside the gallery...

there are large and small photographic prints,
a large book and a small handmade book

in the middle partition is my large print...

 Ancora Imparo - 'I am still learning'

which is also the name given to the installation
recreated in the middle of the gallery..

 the installation contains the looooooong coptic bound book

codex inperfecto - the unfinished book

behind the middle partition

 hidden from initial view... 

is the large 

nec tamen consumebatur - 'and yet it was not consumed'


also in this space are 3 works from 2010...

Novus libri scientia - The New Books of Knowledge 

  Flammeus libri ardor - The fiery passion of the book 

and 

 genius loci

as well as a small coptic bound book -- carpe diem

I'll share more of what's inside this small book 

and some more of the individual works in the show

*next time*

 

so with a last look over my shoulder -- it's on its own....

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carpe diem 2013 - 18...

 

one red volume of Oxford Advanced Atlas

in a (halved) pear tree log

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