Today I am working on, and hope to finish MOL, a small piece I committed to make available at a participants’ exhibition at Fibreswest in Bunbury, Western Australia beginning october 1st. Since I am currently on the other side of the world, that clearly means I will be packing my bags shortly for a brief trip back to Aus.

This is Kimberley 4, one of several works exploring that iconic landform of ours up in the Kimberley, the Bungle Bungles. Focusing on shapes and patterns of marks, similar to those in map making, or is that “traditional crafts” ? It doesn’t matter, because wherever it takes the viewer mentally, I hope this piece will further explore the mystery and the vast age of this region and the multifaceted importance it has for all Australians. Most of all, it is an expression of my hope to ‘sometime’ visit the national park.

Leather or pokerworked wood?

This quilt, Desert Tracks 3, I was frantically finishing, at the last minute, just made it across the entry deadline and was selected into the “Across Australia” collection, curated by Dijanne Cevaal.
I felt that once the first viewing of this collection had been seen, opening today september 8th, at quilt Indulgence, Mittagong /Bowral NSW, until september 11th, then I could put a pic of the whole up here. Not quite the same as seeing it in the flesh though.

The whole collection will be touring over a period of two years at least, and will be seen in France, the Netherlands and Egypt, Syria and possibly other venues. I p[lan to put the schedule up on my website when I have a few more details.

I feel very proud to have made it into this collection curated and organised by Dijanne, whose exhibition organising activities continue to expose contemporary Australian quiltmaking and quiltmakers to other parts of the world.

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There’s so much “free firewood” around just now, each day during the cleanup one can hear chainsaws, and along the roads people are loading up cars, trucks, horse drawn carts, little cycle-driven boxy things on two wheels, even a motor cycle sidecar.

We were lucky. We are among many who have roll down shutters here, and our windows were protected. Only last week I commented how lovely our peppermint tree was looking out the front – now 2/3 of it is twisted off and down on the street. (pictured – we occupy the middle unit of this triplex) To the right of this photo a fir of some kind is bent in half, slumped over the wires on a power pole, but it all continues to work OK. These Uruguayan power people could show our chainsaw-happy Western Power employees a thing or two about power lines and trees, and how they DON’T need to be hacked and massacred into the wild improbable shapes you see round some of our Perth suburbs. And, this week’s storm aside, here we don’t suffer anywhere near the amount of power outages that we do in Perth. Anyway, time now to do another spell with the yard broom….
PS firewood a guy with a chainsaw chopped up the major branches friday… I am assured this does not need a year or two to dry out, it’s great for fireplaces right now.