Exhibition
Here is the invitation for an exhibition of 6 of my photos
being shown at Hamish McKay Gallery.
It opens on Tuesday.
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John Reynolds
A strange thing happened on Tuesday night.
I had a conversation with Aucklander
John Reynolds at an opening at Sue Crockford’s and somehow after I felt inspired to have another
go at blogging, or as I sometimes call it, blobbing.
This change of heart was not insignificant.
I’m too embarrassed to look,
but it must have been
six weeks since I last wrote anything.
Sorry about that.
Anyway, tonights blob is a portrait of John’s
smiley face.
Coleus
For the last 12 months I’ve quite suddenly
become interested in coleus. These specimens
are in my studio and seemed to have
grown quite sturdy over the winter.
I’ve photographed them several times over the
last few months but, as usual, todays image
is the one that I am most interested in.
Today
I’m in the middle of a major
tighten up of my office, studio,
and living quarters.
Now have new roof, insulation, wool on top,
munched up plastic drink bottles underneath,
and black plastic on the damp earth.
Came across these two photos this afternoon.
They are between two and seven years old.
Another Studio View
These are rock samples collected by
the Southland Museum in Invercargill.
Outside Walls
Today I have had my electric chainsaw
out and been clearing walls on which
I can glue up photographs that
I have been storing in my studio.
This photo is several years old,
taken of a piece of driftwood
that I picked up near here.
The green plant on either
side is the vine Tecomanthe
Speciosa
A Child
I have quite a lot of toys here and tonight
also a child.
The blue inflatable fish I’ve had for about
2 years, it originally came from
Invercargill.
I’d had a few attempts at turning it into a picture
but to no avail although I did make
an earlier version, from the collection of the
Southland Museum.
It was a fish turned into light.
But to get back to the point,
the child today had found the blue
fish, blown it up, and brought it
to show me.
It made me take up my camera again.