It is such a pleasure being so close, learning who it is that you are.
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BESIDE YOU // Day 19, 13 April 2020
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IT'S BEAUTIFUL HERE // Day 18, 12 April 2020
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I made the first iteration of this artwork in 2018, during a difficult period. A time where I was feeling hemmed in by the small quietness of my life. I wrote the words as a reminder that there was beauty in my ordinary everyday, despite the corner I felt backed into. It was a case of write it down and make it so. The poem is also a loveletter to my home, the town I lived in, and to this country of ours.
Read More3,2,1 CONTACT // Day 17, 11 April 2020
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I had the most amazing conversation this afternoon with a young woman who I’d like to call a friend, and is also a relation in the modern sense of the word. She had such wise advice to give me over something I was finding deeply troubling.
Read MoreSOMETHING BEAUTIFUL TO HOLD ON TO // Day 16, 10 April 2020
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When I was a child and upset, I’d rub the fabric of a blanket between my finger and thumb. It gave me such comfort. I’d do it if I was sad or scared, sick or in hospital for an operation. I particularly liked the ones with satin edging at the top - the smooth feeling contrasted with the rough of the blanket gave me particular pleasure. Gave me something beautiful to hold on to.
Read MoreKINTSUGI // Day 15, 9 April 2020
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Woke up this morning feeling like I was all in pieces on the floor, like I was grieving something I couldn't name.
Today's been an excercise in making like Humpty Dumpty and putting myself together again.
I dig kintsugi, the Japanese art where you take pottery that is fractured and broken and repair it, making it stronger and more beautiful than what it was before.
I'm kintsugi-ing the fck out of myself right now.
Kintsugi : This unique method celebrates each artifact’s unique history by emphasizing its fractures and breaks instead of hiding or disguising them. In fact, Kintsugi often makes the repaired piece even more beautiful than the original, revitalizing it with a new look and giving it a second life.
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LET GO // DAY 14
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Been trying so hard to hold on to who I was before. How I did things before. But, in so many ways, “before” no longer matters.
Read MoreRETURN TO THE CENTRE // Day 13
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Return to the centre.
At the centre is you.
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BLUE PARENTHESES // Day 12
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That’s what this lockdown is.
Parentheses.
There’s a life before, a life after, and right now we’re inside the brackets, existing in a slow limbo.
Read MoreRE-IMAGINING // Day 11, 5 April 2020
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It’s been an excellent and fairly lazy Sunday. Reading. A long and beautiful walk. Excellent food. A couple of hours watching Succession on Netflix. Always in the background though, behind the day-to-day activity, my mind/heart/gut is working on the very necessary re-imagining of what my life, art, business is going to look like now in this suddenly-changed world of ours.
Read MoreAND SO TO BED // DAY 10, 4 April 2020
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I have always loved my bed.
Sleeping is one of my talents.
99% of the time
I find bed to be a place of great comfort,
healing and deep rest.
Lately I've been enjoying our bed just as much.
To wake up in love is joyful.
Today we got up at 1pm.
Why not? It's Saturday.
Books. Coffee. Discussion. Kisses. Cats.
It was delightful.
And slightly wicked.
Because it was sunshine-y in Wellington
and to be in bed
in Wellington-on-a-good-day
is pretty much a sin.
Of course
being slightly wicked
made the morning in bed
even better.
Finding innocuous ways
to transgress
during a time
of such necessary good behaviour
is vital.
Don't you think?
[And so to bed, 2020 is available as a limited edition studio print]