With these hands I will dig and hold circle and fold shape and grow caress, create with these hands I will make the world Out in the backyard, playing in the dirt … the simple joys of finding a creature alive in the soil. Then crushing it and loving …
I don't recall the very first time I heard the expression 'Don't forget to stop and smell the flowers'. I have always loved flowers and blooms, their myriad colours and forms … and scents. My love of flowers has stayed constant while the way I look at them changes constantly. …
The Royal Canberra Show is held every year to celebrate and showcase the very best that the region has to offer. I have been entering photographs into the Canberra Show Art Prize for the past three years. There are four classes in which to enter photographs; Open Landscape/Places People & …
I was reminded by Ally over at her blog everyday miracles that it's Donate Life week – an initiative by the Australian Government to promote awareness of and (hopefully) increase the number of people willing to donate their organs. Organ donation in Australia is low. In fact, Australia has one …
Towards the end of last year I received a lovely email from Paul Coleman at the Riverfront Theatre Company in Windsor Ontario, Canada. He was putting together a youth theatre production called "Princesses Aplenty – A Fractured Fairytale". Paul had seen a photograph of mine and thought it would be …
When I first published this self portrait of me sleeping like a bat, I was listening to the album The Sound of White by Australian artist Missy Higgins. Listening to the title track got me thinking about the sound of white noise and how relaxing I found it. About how …
Not that I can believe it's February (or 2012) for that matter. I've been busy and had a lovely time over the Summer holidays being busily doing not much. Over the summer break I had a 3-week period in January where I didn't even switch on the photo workstation! My …
