tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79600606573392625132024-02-07T19:53:45.387+08:00a mermaid in the atticA mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-57027997467183400612019-12-09T21:58:00.000+08:002019-12-09T21:58:08.570+08:00Winter...Spring...Summer...I began this post back in July...but didn't get terribly far. I think I will just post SOMETHING even if it isn't in order, because when I try and get organised and chronological I find that so much time has passed that it becomes an insurmountable challenge, and then I don't actually get around to posting at all. So here are a few pics of what I've done this year, probably not in proper order, but...perhaps it doesn't matter so much!<br />
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JULY<br />
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It's Winter here now, though sometimes you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, as we've had some extraordinary days of warmth and sunshine. <br />
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I miss my little blog. It seems to be so hard to find the time to write, and I also feel too, that blogs may be going the way of handwritten letters, no one seems to have the time or the attention span, they've all moved to Twitter I think. And I find even with myself, as someone who grew up before personal computers and the internet, that my attention span, my ability to concentrate on ONE thing without being distracted, has been affected. I don't know what the answer is.<br />
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But, I'm here now, and I have things to show. Strange that my desire to move to the country for a 'quiet life' seems to have actually had the opposite effect. I specifically decided not to commit to a solo project for this year's 'Brave New Works' Arts Festival in my little town, because I really relished the thought of a winter spent percolating some ideas quietly and without a looming deadline. But there is always something happening, I always seem to be going somewhere or doing something, so I've not had much in the way of sitting quietly and writing by the fire!<br />
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JUNE<br />
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A dear friend and marvellous writer and poet, Linda Bradbury and I put our heads together and created a 2 woman show, <i><b>Windborne</b></i>, for the Denmark Festival of Voice 2019 in June. Poetry, stories, songs old and new...of exile and belonging, of finding refuge, and being turned away...and how we are all immigrants in one way or another, searching for home. The lovely photos were taken by <a href="https://www.hazelblake.com.au/">Hazel Blake</a>.<br />
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Three paintings, three stories, all feathers and birds, tales turned around and looked at from a different point of view. Perhaps the brothers in The Wild Swans grew to love their wings, and the freedom flight gave them. Perhaps, in this day and age of exile from nature, banishment from the more-than-human world, it's not so mad to want to escape human company and hold counsel with birds as the mad King Suibhne did. And in the ancient Welsh tale of Blodeuwedd...was becoming an owl really a punishment to a women who had been called into existence solely to be given to a man she knew nothing of...did they stop to ask her what she wanted?</div>
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The Great Southern Art Trail is a major event on the calendar of any artist in the area, coinciding with the September school holidays. The Butter Factory Artists' Collective chose an exhibition theme, LAND+MARKS, to be interpreted in any way we felt seemed right for us. I considered the marks we make upon the land, and the marks the land leaves upon us. 'Love Letters to a Wild Planet' was an attempt at saying something, using non-literal 'calligraphy', creating poetry or prayers or love letters that might say anything you wanted them to, about your love for this wild green place we call home.</div>
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I think I began in May! Some time ago my dad gave me some recycled copper electrical wire. I KNEW it would come in handy for something...just wasn't sure what. And I still have all the beautiful sea glass that my friend Sophia, who so sadly and suddenly passed away last year, gave me before she moved to Scotland. It finally dawned on me that I could do something useful with both at the same time. That led on to further experiments, and a fair amount of web research and YouTube watching to learn more. So I've finally found a use for all the weird bits and bobs of old jewellery, interesting beads, and thrift shop finds that I have collected over the years.</div>
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Brave New Works Arts Festival came around again, and though I was intending to have a quiet time of it this year, it didn't quite turn out that way. The Denmark Storytellers' debut performances saw me providing incidental music and sound flourishes as nine storytellers wove their original and adapted tales to rapt audiences. Nine Tales, told over four performances, three half hour stories per show. Some of them had never done anything like this before, and it was marvellous to behold as they held the audiences in the palms of their hands; confident, charismatic, beautiful.</div>
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The theme for BNW #26 was LOVE...because even if it seems cliched or sentimental, there was such a strong feeling that this is what we need now, this is what the world needs desperately now. But I did struggle to wrap my head around a way of creating work for an exhibition with a theme as open, as broad, and as emotional as 'Love'. But serendipity or synchronicity, or both, stepped in as it always seems to when you need it. I did a Screen Printing workshop and because of misplaced emails, I had to rush at the last minute to find a subject to use as my artwork. So I did a quick digital drawing of a 'Tree Heart' and used that as my rough guide. I haven't done any screen printing for over thirty years, but I was quite pleased with the result (though the photos could be better!)</div>
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But I needed something else...a big piece as the centrepiece. My friend was in Frankfurt for the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, and she described it in a text as a mini 'Metropolis', and I couldn't resist a little joke..."Superman's or Fritz Lang's?" I asked. And across the miles, on opposite sides of the world, we discussed via text, the 1927 classic silent film. And she told me the quote that comes right at the end of the film. "The Heart must be the Mediator between the Head and the Hands." And suddenly I had my image...and it became this...'Head, HEART, Hands.' A large piece on heavy watercolour paper, in charcoal, pencil and acrylic ink. And it went home with a very lovely man who bought it as a Christmas present for his wife.</div>
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I liked the technique/style so much, I did another one. I wonder if any readers remember this picture, from, oh, about ten years ago?!</div>
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Well, this one was based on the same 'model', only she's a lot bigger these days. It's not really a portrait, but a likeness is there. I can't believe how fast time flies...my little munchkins are 18 and 15 now.</div>
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Phew! And now Christmas is only two weeks away and there is always so much to do this time of year! But perhaps I'm sort-of up to date now. And if you don't hear from me before Christmas, have a wonderful festive season, and here's to love and joy and good news in 2020...because the world so desperately needs it.</div>
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Well...now we are in March, so this new year is travelling very fast. It has been a little while and more since I last wrote, but I have been busy.</div>
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When I last wrote, the 'Wolf Bride' was still fresh in my mind, after the performances at the Butter Factory Studios, a wonderful Artists' Collective of fantastic women. And now, I'm one of them! It's a very new and exciting adventure for me, I now have somewhere not only to show my work, but also a place, that's a little bigger than the tiny corner of our shed, to make that work. I'm looking forward to all the possibilities this year presents.</div>
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But more on what I've been making and doing. I had some fun a few weeks ago with scraps of fabric and onion skins. I also decided it was high time I finished the Talesingr puppet. I've had my small books of the Talesingr stories for sale in the gallery shop for a while, and it seemed the perfect time to bring the stories, the Talesingr's Children, and the Talesingr herself all together in one place. So, I spent a few days sewing and stitching small scraps of naturally dyed silk and cotton, digging among my beads and bits and bobs collections, and bringing her to life. I'm pleased with how she turned out, I think she is ready to tell stories now. I hope I'm up to the challenge of collaborating with her.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">I felt that it was time to give the Talesingr's Children a new lease of life. I still have three of the five that I made, so I created new settings for them. Here are two, together with the Talesingr at last.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">A couple of small, new pieces, currently in the gallery. I'm working on a collaborative project with a friend that will become a performance for this year's Festival of Voice in June. We are working with ideas of birds, flightpaths, flight, survival, migrations, refugees...and how to find home, a place of belonging...so feathers have been much in my mind.</span></i></div>
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I'm busy, busy, busy with creative things. The first project is taking up much of my mind and time, we only have 3 months. The Butter Factory has a major exhibition opening in the middle of April, and I'm working on ideas for that right now. Then there is a big, storytelling project happening in town over the next few months, culminating in several performances at this year's 'Brave New Works' festival in November. And there is another story knocking on my door and refusing to leave me alone, so I am researching and thinking and scribbling and making mad and strange connections between things. It might be something and it might be nothing, but I won't know until I've taken the journey. </div>
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Strange how these projects overlap and meld, I look up something, follow a thread of thought for one, and find myself side-tracked, hijacked and led by the nose into another. The fundamental interconnectedness of all things. And I love a quest.</div>
<br />A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-87846513217992428412018-11-18T23:23:00.000+08:002018-11-18T23:23:55.116+08:00Love is the Answer...<br />
Quite a while ago, I decided to join in on Mo Orkiszewski's beautiful <a href="https://itscrowtime.wordpress.com/tag/i-dream-of-a-world-where-love-is-the-answer/">"I dream of a world where love is the answer"</a> project. Mo is an amazing artist living in Sydney, she creates the most beautiful stitched and multi-media works made from repurposed and found materials, natural findings and more. The dream project brings together contributions of pennants and tiny talismans from artists all over the world, all to be gathered together by Mo into one beautiful art piece. Do drop in to her website and have a look at all the other beautiful contributions, as well as Mo's own lovely work. Here are a few quick photos of my piece, which will be winging its way eastward tomorrow!<br />
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Over the first weekend in November, I performed The Wolf Bride on three consecutive nights, during our Brave New Works #25 Festival. It was nerve wracking, and marvellous, in equal measures. I know I've done it before, but not quite like this, and not with an art exhibition to go with it. Possibly trying to wear too many hats, I think, I'm glad I did it all, but I'm not sure I'd do it all again.<br />
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But the audiences were wonderful, and my tale seems to touch a nerve every time I tell it, as I not only had previous audience members back to see and hear again, but the comments from people seeing the performance for the first time told me how much this story resonates. Something is coming through in this tale that touches people deeply, I keep hearing the same phrases over and over again, "you touched my heart..", "...you touched something deep inside me...", "I remembered my own wildness listening to your story..." Audience members came up and clutched my hand to thank me...I even made blokes cry (not an easy thing in Australia!) I can't take credit for all this, I think I've only managed to distill something that is coming through me, rather than of me, an old tale that we need to retell again.<br />
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I put my little books and prints out on display, and lots of people went home with them as well, I hope they enjoy the broadening of the story that the Wolf Poems bring.<br />
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And I found out a few days ago that one of the big paintings on display, the <b><i>Cailleach Dancing</i></b>, has bewitched one audience member so much that she has decided the Sharp Old Woman has to come home with her. I do love it when a painting finds its owner, it whispers a story that they recognise, and they know it belongs to them.<br />
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Here are a few pics of the exhibition, and the performances.<br />
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But sadness followed a wonderful weekend. On Wednesday last week, I heard the news that a dear friend had passed away, in Scotland, where she has lived for the last twenty years. And it dawned on me that SHE was the wild spirit I knew who really did, "disappear outdoors in all weathers and at all hours, because the first snow must be danced in barefoot..." just as my Wolf Bride did. I didn't realise how much she had influenced my story, and now I will never be able to tell her, and she will never hear it. Sophia would swim pretty much anywhere she could find water deep enough, no matter what the weather. She danced barefoot on beaches and paddocks and moors and the machair, and she sang. She sang anywhere and everywhere there was someone to listen, in folk clubs and pubs, at Celtic Connections and other festivals many times over the years. She was the person who talked me into joining the Gaelic choir she co-founded, way back in 1996 when we met and bonded over W.B. Yeats at uni. I doubt if I'd be singing in public at all if it wasn't for her. It is surreal to lose someone you've known for so long, who has been living a long way away for so long...it is as if she is still 'over there', and I can't quite get my head around the idea that she won't be turning up to stay a few days and drink whiskey and talk and sing long into the night. Here she is, singing with Skeeal, a Manx group she sang with a few years ago. She had the most glorious, deep, earthy beautiful voice, but could reach soaring heights too. I still can't believe she's gone. </div>
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<br />A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-74622165805665041782018-10-09T17:26:00.000+08:002018-10-09T17:26:46.148+08:00Song Paintings<br />
As is usual for me, when I'm really getting down to the pointy end of the project and time is running short, I get ideas that I just don't have time for, but they get me motivated and focussed when I'm feeling rather headless-chookish...so I do them anyway.<br />
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On Sunday, I had an image in my head of a small canvas with wolf's eyes and ears peering back at me. With some text, of course, because I'm obsessed with text and words and language. So now I've done three canvases, which is great, because I do love a 'set', and my work is so eclectic that I get quite irrationally excited when I can maintain an idea/style/media/genre for more than one item!<br />
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I came down with a dreaded 'lergie' on Sunday last week, and it rather knocked me for six for a few days and I didn't do ANYTHING Wolf Bride related, except lie in bed feeling glum and thinking of all the things I SHOULD be doing. But sometimes it's also the universe telling you that you need to slow down and stop stressing. So I came up with a few new, but simple, ideas, and also decided on a simpler set design, because I was definitely worrying about whether it would all work, and worrying that I wouldn't know until I set it up on the day. I also have a new section of narrative that rounds the whole story out better, and a new song, so I'd better get cracking learning those.<br />
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Here are two of the new paintings (or rather, drawings on canvas), I'll post a pic of the third one when I've taken a decent photo of it.<br />
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Back to the coal face!<br />
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<br />A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-84134375765402151202018-09-29T16:02:00.000+08:002018-09-29T17:40:27.095+08:00Four Weeks to go!<br />
My brain is in danger of suffering overload at the moment. As much as I know how good a deadline is for me (because I can happily waffle on with any project ad infinitum), I'm feeling a bit all-over-the-shop right now. It's because <i><b>The Wolf Bride</b></i> project is a thing of many parts, and although Chaos and Procrastination are my middle names, what I'm finding a bit of a challenge, is the lack of a space to spread everything out so I can SEE all the parts at once. The way I like to work is a kind of <i>orderly</i> chaos, with all the separate parts out and visible, so that I can move between them all and work on whichever takes my fancy at the moment. So I'd <i>like</i> to be constantly moving between writing poems <i>sitting</i> <i>in this spot</i>, picking up the guitar and playing <i>there</i>, scribbling ideas in my journal <i>at my desk</i>, hanging up sheets <i>in this corner</i> to try out some idea I've just scribbled about in my journal, turning a poem I've just written into a song, painting something large <i>on the easel</i>, going back to my journal...and so on. But, I live in a shed. With three other people and a large hairy dog. And my desk has got art/writing/research stuff all over it...and so has the table I squeezed into the tiny corner I call my studio, so I've spilled over onto the dining table (which is right next to the work table), and I can <i>only do one thing at a time</i>...which is really hard for me because I'm just not that organised that I can schedule, "Right, I'm going to spend this morning writing poems, this afternoon, I'll practice the songs. On Monday, I'll work on paintings, and I'll spend Tuesday on set ideas." My brain just does NOT work like that! Oh, for a studio! One day!<br />
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Anyway, here are some things I've been working on and playing with. I've also got a new song in the works, and a chunk of new story narrative. Hmmm, hope I have enough time to learn it all! Eeek!<br />
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<br />A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-258546391339513492018-09-29T15:19:00.000+08:002018-09-29T15:19:36.583+08:00Goodies in the post!<br />
Just a quick post about some of the lovely things that have turned up in my PO box recently. We don't have a mail box, we live too far out of town for the Postie, so Hubby brings home parcels every morning after work. Quite often, they're bike bits (hmmm, ANOTHER package of mysterious bolts and washers and things completely unknown to me!). But sometimes, they're for me!<br />
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Delicious things from <a href="https://hedgespoken.org/">Hedgespoken</a>. I can't help myself, I've followed <a href="http://intothehermitage.blogspot.com/">Rima's blog</a> and loved her stunning work for close to 10 years now, and my first hearing of 'Sometimes a Wild God' a few years ago got me completely hooked on Tom's magical poetry.</div>
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I've also been a fan of <a href="http://moonlightandhares.blogspot.com/">Karen Davies'</a> work, and her lovely blog, for years too. I've been coveting her beautiful hare hangers for so long. But I can't quite afford one at the moment, and time zones being what they are, I'm never awake when she lists new ones and they're always gone by the time I next check. So I bought a set of hare post cards instead, and a couple of lovely notebooks. </div>
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Serenity Press, a local (well, Perth based) publishing company produced this lovely book by Kate Forsyth and Lorena Carrington. My favourite story (probably no surprises here) is 'The Singing, Springing Lark', another Beauty and the Beast tale.</div>
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I will get on shortly, and post an update on where I am with 'The Wolf Bride'. I'm starting to get panicky! I've realised that essentially I have 4 weeks before I have to be ready, and I've got soooooo much still to do!</div>
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<br />A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-40867795856088901562018-09-19T09:09:00.000+08:002018-09-19T09:09:03.506+08:00This is not a Wolf Poem...<br />
Last week, I went along to a local writing group meeting, catching up with old friends and meeting some new. I brought some 'wolf poems' along to read, but then wasn't sure if they would make sense to anyone who hadn't seen 'The Wolf Bride' and I didn't want to spend ten minutes explaining. So I pulled another poem out, nothing to do with wolves at all, and said, "I'll read this one, this is not a wolf poem." And another wonderful writer present, <a href="http://www.reneepettittschipp.com.au/">Renee Pettit-Schipp</a>, thought that was the title! And we had a chuckle, and Renee said she still wanted to hear the poem called "This Is Not a Wolf Poem", because it was a great title. So it's been on my mind the last few days, and early yesterday morning (about 2:30am, as it usual!), words started to come. Of course, it IS a wolf poem. This time it's the girl speaking...oh dear, is that now going to be the next part...it never ends! It's still not quite <b><i>there</i></b> yet, but I like where it's going. <br />
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This is not a wolf poem.</div>
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For there are no words that I can bring to heel</div>
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To make you hear</div>
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The pulsing of his heart</div>
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Beneath my ear </div>
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As we lie skin to skin.</div>
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I have no spelling skill</div>
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To fetch the smell of him,</div>
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Mouth bloodied with a winter kill</div>
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Each hair on his back frost-kissed in white</div>
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Breath hanging in cloud</div>
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Each silent footfall</div>
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Falling soft,</div>
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Into this small closed space</div>
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As you sit</div>
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Book balanced on knee, half-empty</div>
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Cup at your side.</div>
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I have no consummate tricks of the tongue</div>
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That you might lie back</div>
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And rest your head upon</div>
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His warm and gently undulating flank,</div>
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As eyes and thoughts drift lazily up</div>
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To seek blue nothingness between</div>
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New green-gold leaves in Spring.</div>
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This is not a wolf poem.</div>
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For I can no more easily conjure him,</div>
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Captured and pinned</div>
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To white page with sharp, black marks,</div>
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Than I can sing an ocean</div>
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In a line of wet, blue ink.</div>
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© Christina Cairns 2018</div>
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There are a few lines I'm still not happy with, so more tinkering will ensue.</div>
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There are also new pictures and experiments, but time is flying on fast and I've got to get everything <b><i>sorted</i></b> because I've got less than a month and a half before this happens! And I'm squeezing in a new song and a new bit of story, so I have to learn that off by heart as well.</div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><i>And then that very afternoon, my biggest munchkin (who recently turned 17...how did that happen!?), who is also my 'wolf bride' model, came home with a self portrait scribbled in the corner of her History homework (I think the teachers are well used to my girls drawing on EVERYTHING they do), and it's an almost perfect fit! How amazing!</i></span></div>
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A quick pop-in post on latest bits and bobs. Been doing some more scribbling and writing. I'm at the stage now where I need to find a space where I can actually fool about with my vague set ideas to see if they actually will look/work like they do in my head (and as this is almost always a 'No', or at best a 'Not exactly', it's an important step). I'm also beginning to practice running through the story and adding in some movement/mime and possibly some other more 'theatre-y' bits. Nothing too complicated, I don't want it to become a piece of theatre and no longer an act of storytelling, but a few little things to enhance the experience would be nice. Especially things that are simple, easy, and do not require a lot of complicated tech, or other people, because I would like this to become something that can travel without too much difficulty.</div>
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Firstly though, and most importantly, here's a Fergus photo. As it's been winter here, and we only have a little fire, my poor boy does something feel the cold. It's quite amazing how small he can make himself when he curls up. I'm not even sure which bit is which in this photo, but he's got his blankie on, so he's happy!</div>
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Pics of a tree. Because trees are cool and wonderful, and this is an especially cool and wonderful tree. I think it's an old fig tree. I just loved the structure of it, the gorgeous intertwining branches. It looks like something out of Fangorn. I might try and draw it, when I'm feeling particularly patient.</div>
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I've been busy scribbling, drawing, writing...and painting too. 'Brave New Works' happens on the first weekend of November, and I'm in for the extended, deeper, richer version of 'The Wolf Bride', and decided that while I was at it, I might sneak in some other fairytale bits and bobs, and call it 'The Wolf Bride and Other Tales.' I've also been experimenting with set/installation ideas, and refining what/how I want to perform this time. Definitely not stuck in a chair, I want to be up and moving, though I'll have to sit down for the songs. So I'll need to 'choreograph' movements and mime, and work out how to move from 'singer in chair' to 'actor on stage' fluidly and gracefully! I recently had the great good fortune to be invited to join a wonderful bunch of creative local women, with arts practices eclectic and wide ranging, in a week long workshop with award winning dancer and choreographer, <a href="http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/">Clare Dyson</a>. What a brilliant time we had, with serious play, improvising and nutting out performance ideas around the notion of 'Object as Metaphor'. And what a joy to spend a whole week with my head in that creative place. So I've got ideas brewing! And in the meantime, new paintings!<br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><i>I decided it was high time Oberon got his Titania back, as I sold the first one. I also decided it was high time he stopped looking at younger women, and had a mature Titania more suited to his own age! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><i>Base drawing (found a photo of a lovely older woman on the web for reference, then changed it around a bit, but it always ends up evolving and morphing in the creation anyway).</i></span></div>
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My Wolf is still speaking, new poems still coming. I'm not sure how/if I'm going to incorporate these into the performance in November, it may be better to leave them as something the audience can read independently of the performance, in hand lettered poems on the walls, or little books of wolf poems for sale, perhaps. Here's a new one:<br />
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In soft black earth</div>
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her heel's imprint,</div>
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a fallen shard of sky</div>
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in bright spring rain.</div>
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One paw on either side</div>
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I stoop to drink</div>
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the white clouds drifting</div>
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I think I will also have some of my little 'Snow White to the Woodsman' booklets in the exhibition, so the next painting might be Snow White. But I still have lots of 'Wolf Bride' things to do, including one more big painting, a possible new song, and extended narrative, so we'll see. I shall be busy!<br />
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A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-31813489103559582542018-06-14T13:45:00.001+08:002018-06-15T14:31:25.592+08:00Post Fables...As in 'after', not that I'm posting fables, on walls or through the mail. Though I did receive a small marvel, a heartbreakingly beautiful treasure through the mail this morning. This.<br />
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I've been a <a href="https://www.karinepolwart.com/home">Karine Polwart</a> fan for a while, due to <a href="http://www.terriwindling.com/">Terri Windling</a>, who has opened my ears to many marvellous singers and musicians through her regular 'Tunes for a Monday Morning' posts. A recent <a href="http://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2018/05/tunes-for.html">Monday post</a> featured Karine, and information about her one-woman music/theatre/storytelling show <b><i>Wind Resistance</i></b>, and the subsequent <a href="https://www.karinepolwart.com/books">CD/Book package</a>. I found a couple of Youtube snippets, and fell in love with the whole idea, so I treated myself. It arrived this morning, and what a beautiful, heart-rending thing it is too. <br />
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I've been thinking on the 'next project' (apart from the visual <b><i>The Wolf Bride</i></b> that I'm currently working on), and wondering about the possibility of doing something more personal, more local, still with stories and myth and folklore, because I can't let that go, but something more grounded in the 'here' of my life. But as ever, I wonder if I'm brave enough. My songs and performance work always, I suppose, have an element of the autobiographical, because how can they not? But it's not really about me, it's the old stories, reimagined and universal, more the macro view than the micro view. I'm always hiding behind a mask, so to speak. <br />
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So I wonder, have I got a story that's interesting enough, and am I brave enough to tell it without the mask to hide behind? I don't know, and I don't know how to go about it. But hearing/seeing Karine's beautiful work, and the marvellous way she has seamlessly created this organic and fluid piece, sliding effortlessly between personal story, local history (recent and ancient), scientific observation, political commentary and more, has inspired me to at least think seriously about giving it a go. It will probably be a long time coming, and I don't know what shape it might take, but I think I might try. If nothing else, I might create a body of work that I can leave to my daughters, and granddaughters, that will tell them who I was. And maybe I might find out along the way too.<br />
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But, leaving that aside for now. <b><i>Fables</i></b> went well, and I discovered some useful things that will improve (I hope) future work. I had lovely, and very appreciative audiences, and again was asked, "will there be a cd?" more than once, so I suppose I'd better seriously plan how to go about that. I was terribly nervous the first morning (and first show in the venue at 10am is not the best for me, I'm better a bit later in the day), but I remembered everything, didn't falter or stop or lose where I was up to. So I <i>know</i> when I know it, and I know I can do it, even if I'm not feeling relaxed and in control. A very useful thing to know! The second show was much better, even with a couple of minor line 'fluffs' which I recovered easily from because I knew it well enough the find my way back. Performing when you're relaxed enough to enjoy it, and not stress about minor mistakes, is a beautiful thing. I like that feeling. I should perform more! And I definitely sang better on the second day.<br />
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An interesting thing that I discovered, is that I think I prefer performing a single story narrative, like <i><b>The Wolf Bride</b></i>, to a series of tales like <b><i>Fables</i></b>. This was echoed by something a friend who came said, that she'd just relax into one story, only to be dragged reluctantly out and into another. I carefully planned my 'segues' to avoid obvious ends and beginnings, to hopefully blend one story into another and avoid any uncomfortable jolts or shifts between them. But even so, each was only a snippet of a tale (I must have cut at least half of my original script to get it down to 50mins), and there was so much detail and richness that I had to leave out. And so, subsequently, I was not as 'attached' to this show as to <b><i>The Wolf Bride</i></b>. I know this was also due to the fact that I'd been working on (and living with) <b><i>The Wolf Bride</i></b> for several years, and it was on a theme that I'm personally quite attached to (and I've had some more insight into what attracts me to it, but that's for another post), but with 50mins with one story, you can really get 'into' it, dive in and immerse yourself, and really enjoy the more gradual unfolding of the story, the depth and the richness of a single tale. So I may stick with that for future shows.<br />
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But for the moment, I'm in R&D mode for a 'new and improved' <b><i>The Wolf Bride</i></b>, experimenting with ideas that will bring a more theatrical feel to the show, without making it so complicated that I need a stage crew to produce it. I'm playing about with paper models and simple lighting effects using everyday, cheap electric candles and small battery fairy lights. Very simple stuff that I can do myself onstage, but which will enrich the experience for an audience. And without losing the simple 'storytelling' aspect in a welter of fancy things to look at. I've always been a fan of very simple stage/set designs (though I must admit I adore marvellous lighting). Something that enhances, rather than overwhelms, the beauty of a person standing/sitting in front of an audience and telling a story.<br />
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I think I'm ready...I hope I'm ready! There are always butterflies, but I'm learning to trust that I DO know it, even when I'm convinced I don't. Last year, I was utterly beside myself before the first performance, absolutely sure that I wouldn't remember anything and it would be an unmitigated, and hugely embarrassing, disaster. And it went fine, I remembered everything, and the audience was gratifyingly enthusiastic. So fingers crossed, the same will happen again. As long as my children don't pass anything nasty on to me (next week is fine), they've both been sick! My 'little one' (inverted commas because in no <i>physical</i> sense is she 'little' anymore, now being considerably taller than me), is home sick again today, and has been since last Thursday, poor love. Doctor says it's a virus, so nothing but rest and lots of fluids, and trying not to worry about what she might be missing at school, will help. At least it's sunny today, though chilly.</div>
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We've had some remarkable weather lately. We're fine, but last week there were serious wild fires in the area, and storm warnings, all at the same time. One home has been lost, and thousands of hectares of bush burnt out. We've had some unseasonably warm weather, including warm evenings, which is very unusual this close to winter, and wind and wild weather, but not everyone got the rain we got (we're on the south west side of a hill, facing the Great Southern Ocean, so we usually get rain even when people 10 mins away don't). Warm nights and lots of wind is a recipe for disaster when there's still so much fire fuel lying around. Prescribed burns got out of hand, and locals who should have known better lit bonfires to burn off, and things went rapidly pear-shaped, with major roads being shut. Beloved informed me yesterday that our big tank is only a quarter full, which is a bit worrying this time of the year. We've had rain, but not the usual autumn rains which should have filled the tank up much higher than that by now. We'll need some serious weeks of serious rain if we're to have enough to see us through summer.</div>
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'Fables' is coming along, though I keep getting distracted by 'The Wolf Bride', but that's OK, they can inform each other!<br />
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Here is my original song about a strange and uncanny encounter. I'll be performing it as part of 'Fables' in June at the Denmark Festival of Voice...although not with the harmonies (the wonders of multi-tracking!)<br />
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Note: there's a few seconds delay at the beginning, but I haven't worked out how to get rid of it without a lot of fiddling and phaffing in Garage Band, so I'll leave it for the moment...a job for another day!A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-82445062614681915882018-03-20T11:57:00.000+08:002018-03-21T08:06:11.161+08:00The Voice of the WolfHe seems to speak in single thoughts. One thought, one poem. Short. Perhaps he's struggling with this new way of speaking/thinking. Or perhaps I'm just unable to translate the complexity of wolf-thought into English. I suspect it's the latter.<br />
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fingernails grimed with dirt</div>
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Fergus asleep. He won't stay still long enough for me to draw him awake, and he does NOT like the intense stare I give him when I'm concentrating on drawing, so if he notices me, he turns around and presents his back to me!</div>
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A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-52326016863323394602018-03-09T16:38:00.000+08:002018-03-09T16:38:20.499+08:00The Wolf speaks...?All along, I've left it to audiences to decide for themselves...does he speak? Somehow, I imagine him, even when he's a man, as silent, speaking with eyes and expression, touch and gesture only, and it being enough. It was enough for me.<br />
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But yesterday, in the car on the way into town (and luckily, Beloved was driving, or it might have been a bit awkward!) a poem in His voice came to me (or at least, the first stirrings of a poem), and I had to dig out notebook and pencil, and very messily scribble it down as the car bumped its way along South Coast Hwy. I'm not sure it's entirely a poem in the Wolf's voice though, perhaps more like a poor translation? For how could English ever encompass the inner thoughts of a Wolf? Or of a man who is Wolf more often than man? But then today a few more little snippets floated in. So I wonder if there might be a book of poems from Wolf to Girl, in the new <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Wolf Bride. </i>They seem to be following a simple pattern, short, single thoughts. I'm probably a very poor translator, being a woman who does not actually 'speak' Wolf, but I'll do my best. Who knows, they may not go anywhere, but I'm enjoying them right at the moment.<br />
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<i>THOUGHTS ON COLOUR SIGNIFICANCE</i> </blockquote>
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<i><u>White:</u> Obvious for all the snow references, but also because in practical terms, white is a good colour to showcase artwork against. Easier to make/get white stuff. Old sheets, white paper etc. I'm in two minds about the idea of leaves and roses made out of scraps of text. I love making stuff like that, but:</i> </blockquote>
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<i>b) Do I need to spell it out all the time? If I just have scraps of torn text/paper, which will rustle and can picked up and thrown, they will 'read' as leaves if I'm speaking about leaves, they don't need to be 'leaf' shaped.</i></blockquote>
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<i>The idea of the rose is significant, it plays an important part in the original story (though it's an illogical part), and I wanted to include it in my story, using it a bit differently, and I have, and I'm pleased with how I've incorporated it, I think it works. But do I need to actually have 'roses' in any obvious form in the Visual component? I like the idea, but at the same time wonder it it's a bit 'naff'!</i></blockquote>
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<i>White is also innocence. White/snow also prefigures death, or possible/almost death, in my story. White is a kind of silencing blanket, like snow. When spring/new life comes, greenness and sound (birds, streams) break through.</i></blockquote>
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<i>- Thinking of a smaller painting, same style as large, for "The World Has Changed". I'm thinking of her as a kind of witch figure, a mad old woman everyone is afraid of. Thinking again of the idea of a mask, something she wears for a kind of shamanic shift into 'wolf mind'. Is she looking through it in the painting, or holding/carrying it? It is her link to her lost love, and also to the wild, non-human world. A way of seeing the world through wolf/non-human eyes. A different point of view, a different kind of consciousness. A mask like this would not be strictly representational, may be more about essence/feeling when it is worn, rather than what it looks like on the outside. She can't see what it looks like when she's wearing it, it's how it makes her feel that's important.</i></blockquote>
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A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-42141838676217442332018-03-01T13:24:00.000+08:002018-03-09T16:38:52.125+08:00New things growing...I have no real excuses for the long distance between posts. I could say we had 7 weeks of school holidays which always seem to end up so BUSY, with to-ing and fro-ing between the deep south and the big smoke and in other parts in-between, and visitors of various kinds...and Christmas of course...and birthdays, that I end up longing for the quiet days of term. Or that worldly issues (global and local) have kept my mind occupied (which they have). But the truth is I just haven't got around to it. So here is a bit of what's happening in my neck of the woods, and what I'm working on.<br />
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Firstly, Fergus, who, although he IS a new thing, he's NOT growing (thankfully!) But I'm sure those of you who are 'dog-people' will want to know how he is. Fergus has fit into this family like an old sock into an old shoe. He is the teenage son I've never had. He takes up way too much space, lies around in the way for most of the day (always wherever you want to walk or stand), his hygiene standards are basic (that's being very generous), he tracks in so much sand that I feel like I'm living at the beach, he is always hungry and has his head in the fridge whenever he can manage it, and he sheds so much fur (in lieu of shoes/shirts/jackets/socks of the hypothetical teenage son) I swear I could knit a new dog (if, indeed, I could knit!) His farting is silent but deadly. He also steals unripe tomatoes out of the vegetable patch (I'm not quite sure that's teenage son behaviour though). <br />
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Me - Fergus, why is your face green?<br />
Fergus - (innocent look) Gosh mummy, I have no idea!<br />
Me - Fergus (stern look), have you been pinching the tomatoes?<br />
Fergus - (shocked look) NO mummy, I would never, ev...oh, THOSE tomatoes........<br />
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Or, at least that's how I imagine his side of the conversation going...he certainly has the innocent/shocked looks perfected!<br />
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But he wins over every single person he meets, he hasn't not got a mean bone in his great, long, lanky body, and he is just so completely gorgeous he gets away with everything. He makes me smile when I'm feeling down, his love in unconditional, he just adores hanging out with his family (definitely a 'people' dog), he puts his head in your lap and looks up at you with those big golden eyes, and you melt into a puddle of jelly on the floor. He's rather like a cat actually (I'm not a cat person, but I've heard cats do this), because when I'm working at the computer, he will come up and shove his head under my 'mouse' hand, and flip it up over and over to get my attention, and a pat.<br />
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I also have another new addition to my musical 'family'. Quite by accident really. I blame Terri Windling :) it's all her fault, really! Every Monday she posts gorgeous music on <a href="http://www.terriwindling.com/blog/">her beautiful blog</a>, and I can't count the number of marvellous musicians and singers that I've discovered through Terri's posts. A couple of weeks ago, <a href="http://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2018/02/highwaymen.html">Terri posted a video of Nancy Kerr and James Fagan</a>, marvellous folk duo, and I became intrigued by the instrument James was playing. Looked like a guitar, but 4 double strings, not 6 single strings...what on earth is it?! A little while later, after some 'surfing' on the net, I discovered an instrument I'd never heard of before. The Irish Bouzouki. That was Tuesday. And that's when the universe intervened. Just out of vague curiosity, I did a search for this strange new instrument on 'Gumtree', the Australian online classified ad site. <b><i>And I actually found someone selling an Irish Bouzouki in my nearby 'big smoke'.</i></b> It's difficult to express the unlikeliness of this to people who don't live here, that's why I'm sure the universe stepped in! So, I drove to Albany to have a look. It was lovely. And cheap. And so, by Wednesday afternoon, I was the proud, though somewhat surprised, owner of said instrument. I was saving to buy a good steel string guitar...oh well!</div>
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<br />A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-53319594468154931502017-10-26T20:02:00.000+08:002018-03-09T16:38:41.795+08:00The Wolf Bride as a young girl....Very remiss of me, I know, not to have shown this before. I finished it a few weeks ago, when I was still planning on presenting an 'expanded' version of <b><i>The Wolf Bride</i></b> for the Denmark Brave New Works #24 festival coming up next weekend. An exhibition/installation/set that I could tell the story within. But, a phone call offering several weeks of real PAID work meant I had to rethink that plan and, unfortunately, pull out and put it on hold until next year...perhaps. I did carry on for about three days thinking, "Of course I can do both," but then after lying awake for several hours in the early hours of the morning, and realising that I was no longer looking forward to doing it, and was feeling stressed and worried, and, worse, found myself thinking about what kind of artwork I could get done quickly to fill up space, I decided that I was not Superwoman, and no, I couldn't do both. So, <b><i>The Wolf Bride</i></b> has been set back onto the back burner, to quietly simmer slowly away for a long, slow coalescing of flavours and aromas. Which is probably a good thing, because time was short anyway, and I have ideas that I had already decided I would have to abandon if I was going to do the show this November, and now I can play with them again.<br />
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So here is the companion piece to "Beauty Remembers", a painting for the beginning of the story, "Wildness in my Bones". A painting for the first song in <i><b>The Wolf Bride</b></i> suite.<br />
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<u><b>Wildness in my Bones</b></u></div>
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I was a restless, truant child.</div>
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I was enchanted and beguiled,</div>
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By the wild world we were once part of,</div>
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For it sang like a chorus in my blood.</div>
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I didn't want to watch the world</div>
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Through glass, through a window in the wall</div>
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Not for me the life of hearth and home,</div>
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I stepped into his footprints and grew, like a wild seed sown.</div>
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And my bones are being inscribed with unfurling leaves,</div>
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Entwined with vines, becoming willow branches bending in the breeze</div>
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And I have wildness in my bones</div>
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I don't know from where it comes</div>
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But I have wildness in my bones</div>
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And everyday...it grows...</div>
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© Christina Cairns 2017</div>
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It didn't take long to decide (and I suppose the thought of a ten hour round trip for nothing might have influenced us a little), and by 2pm he was in the back of our car, windows down, heading all the way back down to Denmark. <br />
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He came from Wheatbelt Rescue, and we were told that he was (apparently) a Staghound Staffy Cross, about 18 months old, and he had belonged to a family with young children and a small backyard, and they didn't expect him to get so big (told he was a 'Staffy Cross', but not what with, it seems!), and in the end they could not keep him. His name was Rusty.<br />
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So, we have re-entered the world of 'dog-people'. We decided that a new life/home/family deserved a new name, so now he is Fergus...and he has wriggled his big, hairy, gentle self deep into our hearts already, and we still cannot quite believe our luck in finding such a gentle, sweet natured, well-behaved (mostly!), house-trained, gorgeous hound.<br />
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He came to us unsterilised, so poor boy is now wearing the 'Cone of Shame' after a visit to the local vet, but he seems completely unfazed by it, the only problem is he forgets his head is now 3 times the size it was last week, and keeps running into furniture...and us. But that will be gone next week, and I can't wait to take him out and introduce him to the world. I'm willing to bet he's never seen the sea!<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">With Daddy!</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Squeezing in under my feet at the computer desk.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Mum, don't take my picture, it's humiliating wearing this thing!</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Mum!!!</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Is this really my forever home...really...I can stay?!!</span></b></i></div>
<br />A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-23507047387992789362017-07-27T20:16:00.000+08:002017-07-27T20:16:32.193+08:00'The Wolf Bride' sings again...Well, I've got a looooong drive ahead of me tomorrow! Five hours in the car (in dodgy weather too), heading up to Perth, to attend the Puppetry Workshop at Spare Parts Puppet Theatre for the next two weeks. Luckily I'll have Lisa Knapp (The Hidden Stream) to accompany me on the cd player, and others I haven't quite decided on yet...hmmmm, some Gjallarhorn perhaps.<br />
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But, possibly foolishly, I thought, "I know, while I'm up in the Big Smoke, I'll see if I can squeeze in a house concert." So with the help of some friends, I've got one organised. I've never done a house concert before, so this is all a slightly nerve wracking learning experience. But, I don't want <i><b>The Wolf Bride</b></i> to get packed away in a box in a corner of my mind, never to see the light again, so I have to start somewhere.<br />
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So it's all happening on 5th August. Some original songs with the lovely Ginny to start off with, then into <b><i>The Wolf Bride</i></b> as the main event. Fingers crossed my brain won't be a puddle of goop by the end of an intensive week of puppetry, and I'll be able to remember it all!<br />
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<br />A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-22503257661378190092017-06-21T14:22:00.000+08:002017-06-21T14:22:11.834+08:00Living Testament keeps popping up. Just found this...Busily searching for something else, I came upon this article written for the Country Arts Network WA. This is just a screenshot, if you'd like to read it all, the link to it is <b><a href="https://www.countryartswa.asn.au/stories/denmark-arts-council-community-festival/">here</a></b>.<br />
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At the bottom of the article there is a Vimeo clip. I don't know who put it together, but it's rather lovely, and my beautiful girl features rather a lot. The songs used are "Dust Beneath My Feet", written and performed by yours truly (first rough iPhone recording, this one), and "Don't Be Afraid Of My Power", lyrics from 'Thunder: Perfect Mind', from the Nag Hammadi Gospels, music by the lovely Chrystal Rogers, performed by Chrystal with me providing harmony vocals. Also a very rough iPhone recording, Chrystal sang it for us during one of our rehearsals, and I added the harmony vocals later using Garage Band. Both these songs also appear on our CD, now beautifully recorded by the lovely <a href="http://www.shanghaitwang.com.au/">Pete Grandison. </a></div>
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/216634162">Denmark Arts Council's Brave New Works: Living Testament</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/cntryarts">Country Arts WA</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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Well, it all happened on the weekend, and despite being a nervous wreck on Saturday morning, it went beautifully. So many lovely people with so many lovely comments, the venue was pretty full both times and by about twenty minutes in you could have heard a pin drop. I don't know where else in the world I would have had the opportunity to do this at such a wonderful festival, but here in my own wonderful little town. </div>
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And what a glorious weekend. I saw so much amazing music from local groups through to international acts, spent time with my beautiful girls wandering about town and dipping into the smorgasbord of aural delights that was on offer. And the weather was glorious too, beautiful sunshiney days and crisp evenings, a perfect winter holiday. There's not much point in me trying to describe all the acts I saw, so I'll just add the link to the <a href="http://www.denmarkfestivalofvoice.com.au/program-details/"><b>Denmark Festival of Voice</b></a> online program so you can peruse the delights for yourself. And all in a small country town of about 6000 people.</div>
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We received the CDs for the <i><b>Living Testament</b></i> just in time to make one of the showcase performances into a CD launch. I had great fun belting out 'Rahab Rock!' again, up onstage with a mic this time, happily satisfying any long buried ambitions to be a 'rock chick'.<br />
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And if all that wasn't exciting enough, I applied for a two week <a href="http://www.sppt.asn.au/for-artists/adult-short-courses/two-week-puppetry-training-intensive/">Puppetry Intensive Course</a>, at the wonderful Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, and was accepted. Cariad Astles from the UK is coming out to run the second week, so I'm thrilled and excited to be getting the chance to follow up on another passion. Maybe I'll be able to incorporate puppetry into future <b><i>Wolf Bride</i></b> performances!</div>
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<br />A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-88095471213031559202017-05-06T00:36:00.001+08:002017-05-25T17:14:37.511+08:00A Wolf Bride 'taster...and more.Well, in between trying to finish the writing, and trying (still working on this) to learn it all, I took a bit of time off to play about on Garage Band and put together a little promo/taster for The Wolf Bride. Also, I've been busily working on a cover/package design for the Living Testament CD, which will be launched at the Festival of voice, during our concert versions of the show. I also got myself organised enough to load up to Soundcloud some of my very rough recordings of my Living Testament songs, so I thought I'd post them here. Please remember that these are NOT the professional recordings that are currently in the engineering process, just my little rough versions. Hope you like!<br />
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Above: My little song for Naomi, who returned to her homeland as an old woman, her sons and husband gone, and yet not alone, for faithful Ruth stayed with her.<br />
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Below: There was much discussion about Rahab's story, and the terrible choice she was given, and we simply couldn't see her as what we would call a 'prostitute' today. This was a strong woman, and we imagined that her house was the place to be if you wanted inside knowledge of what was going on in Jericho. A brothel, yes, perhaps, but also a meeting place, a business establishment, an entire household supported by this woman. A household saved by this woman. The director decided we needed a 'pop' song, so I did my best!<br />
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Below: Rahab again, looking back, and haunted by the terrible decision she had to make. Someone mentioned in the writing workshop, that they wondered if Rahab had briefly considered the idea of telling everyone in Jericho to hang a scarlet cord out of their window, in the faint hope that the Israelite army might spare everyone...and knowing that the risk was too great, the chance the army might honour their promise in spite of being tricked, too slim to even consider. Rahab's people were not followers of Jehovah/Yahweh, most likely still worshipping a pantheon of Gods...and Goddesses. And so we considered what she would have done, marrying into the Israelite tribes, like all women who have become wives to conquerors...she would have taught her children the stories she learnt as a child, passing her people's knowledge on in an undercurrent of women's stories and hidden history. <br />
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Phew...time for bed!A mermaid in the attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960060657339262513.post-42379127300455041652017-04-20T14:15:00.000+08:002017-05-25T17:14:29.156+08:00The Wolf BrideI am in the final stages of tweaking, and getting evermore terrified. Now my little project is up on the Denmark Festival of Voice website, and my name right there, so there is nowhere to hide, no possibility of scuttling back into my hidey hole and pretending it's all a just a daydream. Here is a screenshot of the page, and the link to check out whole program is <a href="http://www.denmarkfestivalofvoice.com.au/">Denmark Festival of Voice</a>. It's going to be a mighty fine weekend!<br />
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As well as <b><i>The Wolf Bride</i></b>, I'm involved in a 'concert' version of last year's <b><i>Living Testament </i></b>project. A last minute and totally unexpected aligning of the stars found a big chunk of the cast back together this last Monday, in a room at the Denmark Artshub, recording songs and spoken word with a wonderful professional Producer/Sound Engineer, <a href="http://www.shanghaitwang.com.au/">Pete Grandison</a>. We might even have a cd to sell at the concert! Maybe one day, there might even be a <b><i>Wolf Bride</i></b> cd. Hmmmmmm!<br />
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The 'Wolf Bride' is still in progress, I've got about 10 songs (some are quite short little things though), but two older ones have been ditched and more may go. I'm still struggling with the narrative 'between' bits though, there are bits that I love, and bits I really don't but kind of need. And sometimes I find I have to do contortionist tricks (or make some of the characters do them) to get characters and story where I want them/it to be at particular times, which sometimes leads to characters doing things which are OUT of character, or just not quite logical. The poor father is particularly stretched in this regard, he seems to be about 3 different fathers at the moment, none of them quite compatible with the others. I know humans can be contrary, complex creatures, but there does need to be some kind of narrative logic! And it has to bear some resemblance to the original fairy tale, so there are certain non-negotiable story points that have to be visited.<br />
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But I will get there, even if I do eventually end up with 382 different drafts (I swear I'm up to about 15 now)! For now, here's a little snippet that I quite like (though who knows if it will make the final cut!!), and a scrap of a song. I hope to get around to putting the songs on Soundcloud or something soon, though, so you can actually hear them.<br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">In her wanderings, when still quite young, she chanced upon an abandoned watchtower on a forgotten, weed-choked path, its lichened green and winter grey stones being slowly pulled apart by creeping fingers of bramble vine and tendrils of wild rose. A man-made place slowly reclaimed by the green and growing world, a refuge for an odd, wild girl who found no peace at home. </span></div>
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Just a quick update on the Great Southern Cailleach. Experimenting with technique at the moment, using colour pencil over acrylic base coat. Goes on nicely, though I'm not sure how it will look after a coat of spray varnish, but if you don't try it, you'll never know! Also very busy with Wolf Bride, trying to finalise my narrative 'between-songs' bits. I've got two months to pull it into shape and learn it REALLY, REALLY well. I'ver never performed anything like this before, so I'm mostly terrified...but if you don't try.........must be my new mantra!</div>
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