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• WaterMusic Exhibition...nice and dry (phew)
  by SoxyFleming

  I woke this morning, in the dark, to a terrifying sound – pouring rain. Luckily, I had loaded the twelve large delicate paper works for m…

  I woke this morning, in the dark, to a terrifying sound – pouring rain. Luckily, I had loaded the twelve large delicate paper works for my exhibition into the car in daylight, yesterday, when it wasn’t raining. But I still had to get to the library by 8am and unload the works. It takes months to collect the raw materials for these things, then five or more hours each in wet and sloppy creation, up to three days in slow drying – these fragile paper works could become piles of soggy mush again in a matter of seconds. I HAD to get them out of the car and into the library when it wasn’t raining. It could have been dreadful but in fact most things went quite smoothly. Despite sleeping in, being foiled by a crucial no right turn sign in the peak hour traffic on the drive there, having to move the massive ladder by myself, cursing over the fiddley problems of temperamental art track, the works found there spots on the wall well before library opening time. The process of creating the pieces is slow and gentle, meditative, unhurried. In contrast to this, the process of hanging the exhibition was tense, physically taxing, nerve-racking and very much limited by time. A public library can’t have some one climbing up and down a huge ladder and spreading fragile artworks around all over the magazine section during opening hours (and during school holidays too!). / It’s was a stark reminder of some kind of strange reality (well reality generally is strange). I’m glad to be home now, warm and dry, drinking coffee and eating chocolate, exhausted but happy. A big thank you to everyone who has favorited, left comments on my works and wished me well for this little show. Even a little show takes a lot of work and your encouragement means a great deal to me. Exhibition Poster and Opening Hours Works in the exhibition

• DROUGHT! A difficult year for all.......
  by hillsrain

  Odd evening tonight. Very warm – summer warm, yet its only 8 days into spring. The frogs are very vocal. A rhapsody of concern outsid…

  Odd evening tonight. Very warm – summer warm, yet its only 8 days into spring. The frogs are very vocal. A rhapsody of concern outside, pleading to mother nature to make it rain. Its a song in vain I fear. Random downbursts, sinking vortexes of wind and pressure skulk through the atmosphere. / Dead calm, then a strong gust of wind drops straight down from the sky above. The house creaks, the gate rattles and dinner plate drops of rain numbered around 25, but no more, crash onto the tin roof like pebbles from the sky. The weather station records nothing as dramatic as the complaints from the house would suggest. Then as fast as it comes its gone. Odd?? A new weather system is on the approach. It looked good for a while too. Rain was on the forecast!! Bummer, its weakening. / Bummer, it looks like the promised rains might have been a clutch at straws. Am worried by the downturn. I’ll be out of dam water by December at the current rate of season collapse. The cows will be thirsty. This is all too common a story across Australia. What will happen will happen, but the tough walk is still to come. Better get out the crutches I suppose. / Looks to the heavens and shouts – “You can break my legs ya bastard, but ya won’t stop me!!” This time next year will make the present look like a walk in the park. As this season rapidly collapses into weather anarchy yet again my thoughts cannot help but drift to the pessimistic view. I will see it through – just, but my income is supplemented from outside sources. I am lucky. My thoughts and prayers drift to those families whose soul resides IN the land and will have their spirit cut asunder this year. / Am thinking of you lot – you are not alone.

• Wheatbelt Landscape Series comes to an end.
  by GCPhoto

  Hi all, Have just uploaded the final pic’s to my series on the wheatbelt area of Western Australia. By all accounts, they have be…

  Hi all, Have just uploaded the final pic’s to my series on the wheatbelt area of Western Australia. By all accounts, they have been enjoyed by bubblers. It has put a big smile on my face to share them with you all and receive such a warm response in return – many thanks for the kind comments and sales. Cheers / Grant.