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The Spirit Lizard and Covid- 19
Originally posted on Mapping uncertainty:
About six years ago I rented an old stone cottage in a country town. Shortly after I moved in I swept the cobwebs off the verandah. In a dusty corner I found the carcass of…
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Testing Water for Iron Content
“Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.” – Ode to Silence: Pablo Neruda Samples of water from four different sources tested for iron content. From left to right: tap water, water from a garden water butt, … Continue reading
Chaos and Onion Skins
The chaos is subsiding. I opened the last packing box a couple of weeks back. Then found more. But a few and there are places for everything now. A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place. (Benjamin Franklin?) Distribution. … Continue reading
Still Taking the Anti-Dote (to the Poison of Chaos) And an Art Note
When all is done and dusted (pardon the pun) I’ll blog about what Jordan Peterson’s Clean up Your Room edict has revealed and changed. (Clean up Your Room comes from Dr Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Anti-Dote to Chaos). … Continue reading
Covehithe Ochres and Gissing Whites: Hand-Made Paints from Foraged Pigment
If you think you received this blog yesterday, well, you did. A version of it without many of the images as I was having problems downloading photos from my iPhone onto my computer. I sorted out the problem – with … Continue reading
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Indeterminacy: The Blueberry Interlude: Cold Dyeing with Blueberry Stems
Dyeing needn’t be an elaborate process, experiments have shown me. Or require costly – and sometimes quite hazardous and pongy – ingredients, sophisticated equipment and a PhD in chemistry. I pruned a couple of little blueberry bushes a few weeks … Continue reading
Liminal Space, the Prepared Piano and Indeterminacy – a Quick Note to Myself and Anybody Reading
The subject of this blog was inspired in part by the Liminal States & Thresholds for Change series of artworks by Turtle Moon Impressions blogger Janis Doucette. Liminal space is that threshold space which is between one state of being and … Continue reading
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Tagged Casper David Friedrich, Eichendorffer, German Romanticism, Indeterminacy, John Cage, Jonas Kaufmann, Leiderkreis, Liminal State, Mondnacht, Prepared Piano, Schumann
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