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Kanangra Walls
Sometimes it only requires a car trip to a national park to reinvigorate the senses, remind you of the endless joy & perfection in nature & get you back on track with your creative process. Over the weekend, my friend Flic & my partner Maxx & I went out to Kanangra Bo where we hiked to the plateau & lay perilously close to the edge of the cliff while soaking up the perfect days weather.
After a drive of almost 30kms of unsealed road, close to the Jenolan Caves road, we were unprepared for the number of vehicles populating the car park. OK, so we did not have the national park to ourselves but it was quite comforting knowing that should my car decide not to start, I need not summons the channel 10 rescue helicopter to get us back home. The dirt road was not without its dangers. I ran over a snake which I mistook for a stick until it was too late. I did not swerve (as directed by a friend on another trip), but momentarily closed my eyes once recognising what I had done. The pit of my stomach churned once I had looked in the rear view mirror to see I had left the creature twisting & writhing on the road.
Meg Hitchcock
in Inspiration
Meg Hitchcock is a Brooklyn based artist using spiritual text from diverse faiths to create stunningly intricate artworks which seem to distill the essence of spiritual teaching and offer it back visually as a moment of stillness and contemplation.
The patience, tenacity and commitment to finishing these works which sometimes take years, is something I can relate to and find my practice can be mind numbingly difficult yet rapturously rewarding.
“In my creative work I weave together spiritual traditions by cutting up the text of holy books letter by letter and refiguring them to create passages from other holy books. I incorporate and ‘cross pollinate’ the sacred writings of all spiritual traditions, suggesting that all religions derive from the same source, and are sustained in the same unwavering faith.”
Subhan' Allah
'Mundaka Upanishad' 2012 Letters cut from the Koran
“Big Air Package”
in Inspiration
"The 'Big Air Package', an indoor installation for the Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, was conceived in 2010 and is on view from March 16 to December 30, 2013. 90 meters high, with a diameter of 50 meters and a volume of 177,000 cubic meters, the work of art is the largest ever inflated envelope without a skeleton."
I could imagine reclining back on a white sofa listening to the Beatles White Album in a white jump suit drinking milk in this strange environment!
