Much to the interest of the locals, the little window gallery at the village roundabout has a new show.
Just before dusk,
gallery manager Vanessa Ashcroft and I discovered the window lighting wasn’t working, so I just snapped one quick shot in the fading light – I’ll get better ones tomorrow.
The beaches of the Hawkesbury have been clogged with driftwood for weeks, as debris from charred inland forests has washed out to sea. Great logs, entire shattered leafless trees, hunks of jetty, vast drifts of black and silver kindling. Amid the litter, people, large and small, can’t help but build things.
These two structures have …
I’m up at my partner’s home in the mouth of the Hawkesbury River, where I have a sculpture table in the shed. On Tuesday these three pieces (the snake isn’t finished yet) go in the window gallery at the roundabout in the village.
Check out those neat little plinths. I was having trouble finding, making …
Hello lovelies,
I promised you all something “artistic” as a token of my appreciation and to welcome you to this special and (for me, at least!) exciting new relationship. I thought about what it could be, and my thinking went thus: there is a good selection of visual stuff on here already – pictures of me …
By now you know I like to do a lot of things—I usually have several projects in different fields on the go. Sometimes that leaves me chasing my tail a bit, so to avoid that problem I’m going to take direction from my patrons.
Each month I’ll run a poll to check what everyone wants to …
I spent yesterday buying and installing a new modem router (and doing a mammoth grocery shop because I had no food in the house) so I wasn’t on the internet much – especially when it (the internet, not the modem) started acting up (see my latest Facebook post) – so I’ve only just this morning …
For my first post, in gratitude for your patronage and as a teaser for your curiosity, I offer you the opening pages of my novel-in-progress, Children of Wrath.
Please understand—this is part of a first draft, meaning it may change, or move to later, or disappear altogether. At this stage, all those possibilities are unlikely, but …
For Donald Horne, with love and regret
The political right, patriarchy, and the politics of penetration
Six long months ago, when political staffer Brittany Higgins went public with her account of rape, cover-up and ostracism inside Australia’s Parliament House, the nation was shocked. Australian women, though, felt a familiar unease. A tiresomely persistent problem—often dismissed as men, …
This is our very first experimental teaser video. We had a lot of fun shooting it (and a couple more), but the message, the media and the method are all still being refined, so watch this space. Words and production by Jack Laurian Pascoe, photography and editing by the Light Pirate.
Time for some cunning linguistics
In case my first post didn’t make it clear, you’ll find quite a few profane words on Philosophilia (vagina isn’t a swear word; do you find it profane? I do—more on that in a moment). When your subject is the ways in which civilised societies exaggerate, entrench and enhance the structural …