I’d be happy if I had a nice shopfront studio like the ones I see sometimes here in Berlin, surrounded by a good community of committed creative people making mess and noise and changing the world one art project at a time. Interspersed with plenty of travel I hope...
My friend Oliver was recently interviewed and this was his response to 'what would you like the future to look like?' and i real loved his answer being surrounded by mess and noise.

coreflute, coreflute, coreflute. such a funny character you are.

unhinged french braces

a king parrot kamikazied into the window of our house today.
it died from the impact.
mum buried it in the paddock.
im not sure if it was an omen.
it was very beautiful and direct.

Merce Cunningham, a very renowned choreographer recently passed away at 90 years old. He was the romantic and collaborative partner of John Cage a very interesting sound artist and musician. I have seen some of Merce's work performed and must admit I wasnt that into the physical movement component even though the music, visuals and concepts of chance are really interesting. And both the music scores that were apart of the pieces I saw at MIAF a few years ago were incredible. Anyway I just came across this video and loved it, so perhaps I will look into his work again or just draw inspiration from this video.

workings of the installation im making for MWF. to be unveiled in entirety this coming week.

Cells emit bright presence.

delicious homemade muesli with biodynamic dried apples, hazelnuts and quinoa puffs.
i had the idea to stew a little rhubarb with an apple and pour it on the muesli hot with all its juices and then add a little extra rice milk. it was good. hot muesli is better than porridge.

infamous rice cake moments: hommous, harrissa,
smoked tofu, fried mushrooms and spanish onions.

black quinoa and butternut pumpkin mash

this guy has greatly tattooed arms and some very interesting things to say,
dont be put off by his quirk of annunciation

Soil isnt vegan.
dirt is heaps important.
im learning new things.
and old ones.
and ones ever evolving.

Uni & her ukelele in the laneway
Duduá is in
in Barcelona
i just watched it and it made me happy.

over the weekend i did a course in making vibrational essences from australian wildflowers.
it was profound and neat, and has given me lots of new inspiration and energy to keep playing
and exploring and researching things. I took this photo of a banksia in my walking just outside the royal
botanic gardens in sydney with my phone camera.
ABFE

doodling on the paper tablecloth in restaurant in glebe.

walked past this painted building in newtown and thought
that exciting paintings make brick walls much more exciting
and i wanted to paint some.

and it must be said that if we are choosing there must be - an opposite
a point of departure
something that the choice is chosen from

and i choose to deviate from the paved path
and walk on the tendered mown grass in an act of anarchy,
honouring this direction.

walking and looking out from look outs with lena and alex in the mountains.

lady grey
+
sunshine porridge

un-co-ordination
+
salty sweat in my eyes.

my legs looking somehow silverous in the wintery sunshine

i finally held my breath watched the film adaption of love in the time of cholera, and though it is a good enough, film, it lacks Marquez's words and
the complexities and full of poetry are collapsed into a three lined love story.
and i dont see that i agree with that being a good thing.

celeraic, black raddish, heirloom purple carrots, turnip, kipfler potatoes.

At the moment im working on a commission for this years Melbourne Writers Festival
* im * building an exciting participatory sculpture that will be installed in Federation Square during the festival. Stay tuned for more developments.
* im is asterixed, because obviously im not working alone, and seen in these photos are the real workers being my carpenters apprentice brother Darcey, and the wild card apprentices' apprentice Noah.

some cooking adventures of late...
you will notice themes
and reoccuring ingredients

onion-carrot- brussel sprout-tomato and olive sauce
on amaranth and rice spiral pasta.
i blended the sauce to hide the vegetables
and used ume su, raw sugar, himalayan crystal salt and white pepper
to flavour and balance the tomatoes.
my small friend ate it all and thought it was incredibly delicious

slow baked apples with mucavado sugar, biodynamic
sultanas and ginger.
this was before the crock had its lid on and spent its time
in the oven.
the lady at the fruit shop suggested these grannie greens
for baking but they exploded all over the place
and werent the ultimate.

Organic italian risotto rice, fresh shitake mushrooms
from the huon valley in tasmania, kalamata olives
home made stock and garden grown herbs.
my smallest brother was in charge of cooking this risotto
and did a fine job, with my strategic assistance.



we fried strips of celeriac, parsnip and beetroot -
which became beautiful pink vegies for the top of
the risotto. the chef discovered a taste for mushrooms
and realised that there is more to life that white
button cup mushrooms that had him anti.

hasty rice flour and cinnamon pancakes
with poached segments of orange in some
kind of not overly sweet but a bit sweet syrup

my little brother, but not the smallest one,
made this beautiful pizza under my subtle
mentoring. a wonderful crisp-pita-bread-in-the
oven style affair with mushrooms, olives, freshly
cracked black pepper and rosemary plucked
neatly out of the garden near the back door.