May 27, 2010

SA Artist: Mark Warren

I think it's the crazy colours that attracts me, like butterflies are attracted to bits of Lego with honey-water in them.

I saw this large canvas in the window in the window of Arts SA (the state government department) on Hindley Street and if I had a piggybank with change for spending I probably would have bought it. It's much brighter in real life, and I would only need 5,500 dollar coins in the piggy, which at the rate of 1 per day would take me just over 15 years to save up.
I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like.
- attributed to Gelett Burgess, who may or may not have said it first.

Annie's World by Mark Warren

May 26, 2010

Tomoko Suzuki

I wish I could illustrate when I see work such as this, by Tomoko Suzuki (via designworklife).



May 19, 2010

Where The Heart Is

When you pack it all up and move it, you begin to realise how much of it you own.

Stuff. The pitfall of a consumerist society.

There is the stuff that fits in boxes and stuff that needs a trailer. Stuff in the back of the ute and stuff in little containers. Stuff in drawers and stuff under the bed and stuff on the walls. You can bundle it up and ship it around and then eventually more stuff arrives, just in a different letterbox. Even after filling boxes and bags with stuff to donate, there was still a lot of it left.

If home is were your stuff is, I now have a new home, which I actually love and shall be 'warming' this weekend with my housemate C. My heart, well it's pretty comfy for the time being. I left a bit of it overseas, so I may have to go back one day to find it. I think it's at a gelati stand in Florence.

EDIT: This is the 'pack n move' process, saying goodbye to my old Granny Flat. I will have plenty to show of the new place soon!

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This mattress is older than I am. I think it may need replacing.

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