(The Mystery of) The Coffee Circle

That which is without, is no less worthy than that which is with.

Awful to still have prizes, especially when the winner is chosen for its excellence and durability in equal measure. We will never know which were the purely excellent works.

Important to end the year with a big climax.

Spoken words. Have we not had enough of them already?

This poem was written in 1992, which was four years before I stopped teaching there.

Various Portraits

This blog materialisation has less gravitas, like a photocopy of a reproduction. It can be savoured though, for its prospects, in the imagination, and in the future. 

The  Installation

This work, titled The Moment was made in 2016 …

Banner was first titled Tag …

Tentatively titled Rise, this sculpture was commissioned for Willinga Park, which is an equestrian centre in Bawley Point. 

On holiday, lying on the couch, looking on top of the kitchen cupboard I noticed an array of supermarket products carefully arranged for future use and general admiration. Why are these not more often employed for subject matter in paintings, being as they are, so compelling, I asked myself?

Sometimes a found object needs to be left where it is, when its meaning is dependent on its placement. These items might be called found installations or found contexts.

Responses to my posts are far with even less than few between. It seems to me that readers are covert, that they visit my blog out of curiosity but are not inclined to leave a trace of having been.

The Crossing found its launch at Sculpture by The Sea's twentieth anniversary exhibition in 2016.

On the occasion of my mother's commemorative service, Australian Galleries Paddington NSW, 22 June 2016

Where we strive to express ourselves, where we expect language to be delivered through the normal channels, …

… the stages in the making of Beachdays …

Hi Dan, Chances are you are not listening, again, your views are no doubt well set by now Ten years on.