Today I get to deal with the part of installation that I mildly dread – playing plinth Tetris and trying to negotiate placement so that there is a good flow as well as interesting sight lines throughout the space. It’s not always quick and easy, and because most gallery layouts are vastly different from one another you can’t just set the work up in the same formation as the last space you’ve showed in.
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After some woodworking woes (L53’s skill saw and I were not feeling the love, so April went and got her own personal saw from home for me – thanks April!) the volunteers and I ended up with what looked like a couple of plinths.
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An early morning flight gets me to Edmonton International Airport late morning where I am graciously picked up by Latitude 53‘s Program Officer, April Dean.
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While I was in Portugal doing my best to escape the Olympic fervor outside my front door (February 8-23), my lumpy puppy went under the knife.
I asked Steve, who was E’s dog-nanny for the two weeks I was away, to take some pix and email them to me so I could see how he was doing…
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These should have been my new ‘Vogs:
And they were.
For about 36 hours.
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I had the good fortune of being able to spend part of the holidays over on the Sunshine Coast visiting friends. It was a lovely, lazy time – strolling out to Roberts Creek Point with cups of flavoured steamed milk warming hands and bellies.
Andrew, ever more observant than I (so embarrassing as I am the so-called Visual Artist), spotted this en route:
Hello and Happy New Year.
I figure that the beginning of a bright, brand-new shiny year is as good of an incentive as any to resurrect my blog. You know, more pressure to maintain consistency…more guilt if I don’t.
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An autumn poem for you
(and oh, so timely, too)
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It’s true – the last day of summer was yesterday.
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Personally, I’m skeptical.
Those of you who kindly follow my blog – or used to before I tripped and fell down a deep and convoluted rabbit hole – know that this site has been dark for many a month.
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and I can’t really blame you now, can I?
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It’s not, apparently. Yikes. Not like I don’t have anything to muse about – plenty is happening in my life these days.
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Here’s a reasonably accurate account of what was happening in my life during the Great Blog Darkness of 2009…
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Oh my.
Has it really been an entire month?
Didn’t mean to be absent that long – truly I didn’t.
Especially without giving fair warning.
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In about 12 hours I have a meeting with the fine folks at Public Dreams to see if I might be suited for a position on the team that will produce this year’s Illuminares festival.
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Absolutely nothing. I arrived home on Sunday night to a forlorn puppy, all a-hunch and doing his best to wag without moving his tail from the tucked position between his legs. He mustered a bit of a tail tip tremor, but not without obvious discomfort.
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I’m wondering if it’s time to replace my $2.99 trash bucket of twelve years.
What do you think?
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Yes, I should have been posting a Muse last night, but I went here instead:
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Never before seen in captivity, the rare albino – or as one might say on the West Coast, “spirit” – sock monkey.
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Surrogate Jody has returned from her Recompression adventure.
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Wow. The lyrical lilt of the first ice-cream truck of the season just Music-Box-Dancered through my open window.
Must be summer.
New WIP’s for the Survival Games series:
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Recompression 2009 is in full swing as I write this.
It is on the Sunshine Coast in Camp Elphinstone and I am not. Or am I?
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For the last two days I have been lending a hand (and two legs and a leash) to my upstairs neighbour’s by taking their dogs out on mid-day walkies.
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I’ve been testing blueberries out the last few days to see if they are something I can add to my “safe food” list.
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After much fence-sitting and decision-waffling I’ve made the choice to take these:
and do with them what I had always planned on doing…
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Or in my case, the guitar’s outta the case. Today I had my first guitar lesson.
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Nope, not me. Not anymore.
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Three days of being very social has taken it’s toll on the poor Muse. Just haven’t been spending the same amount of time in front of the computer. Let me fill you in on what I’ve been up to…
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My two IC cookbooks came in the post yesterday. I was so excited I decided to make a carrot cake to take to movie night at a good friend’s. Well folks. Let me be the first to say how disappointed I was with my foray into baking.
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