I spent February dog & house sitting for friends in Melbourne so I knew that whatever I did for my #52weeksofbotanicals project most likely would use plant material which I would have to leave in Australia.
This put an interesting spin on the challenge & I enjoyed having this parameter to work within.
This put an interesting spin on the challenge & I enjoyed having this parameter to work within.
I enrolled for a one day ancient basketry course through Ceres & assumed that it would likely be the direction February would take.
Turned out, that though I learnt what I went there to learn, it had, & is still having, the exact opposite effect & I really didn't want to do any basketry.
Turned out, that though I learnt what I went there to learn, it had, & is still having, the exact opposite effect & I really didn't want to do any basketry.
As a related aside, I did take the opportunity to go to the 'who's afraid of colour' exhibition at the Ian Potter centre in the NGV. Please go if you are in Melbourne before 18th April 2017, it's simply amazing.
I played with macro photography for a couple of weeks which was so much fun & so interesting I've dedicated a blog post to it.
I was a bit lost for ideas after the awe & amazement of the macro photography but while I was practising some calligraphy I got to wondering if it would be possible to use the calligraphy nib & ink to write tiny messages on to the dried eucalyptus leaves.
It absolutely is possible but totally detrimental to the nibs so I switched to a staedtler pigment liner instead.
It absolutely is possible but totally detrimental to the nibs so I switched to a staedtler pigment liner instead.
Partly as a reaction to all those 'quotes' from somebody else, that some people love to litter their lives & minds with instead of taking the time to come up with their own, I decided to write my own messages to people & draw my own motifs & chose to write them on leaf litter I collected on my daily walk with the dogs.
This I titled the leaf litter project & used the hashtag #leaflitterproject on Instagram
On my last evening in Melbourne I took the dogs for a walk in the park & let the leaves fly off in the wind.
I doubt that anyone will find them & I don't really care.
It was such a fun project, equal parts cathartic & meditative. Also it's a novel idea & I'd like to revisit it in the future I think.
This I titled the leaf litter project & used the hashtag #leaflitterproject on Instagram
On my last evening in Melbourne I took the dogs for a walk in the park & let the leaves fly off in the wind.
I doubt that anyone will find them & I don't really care.
It was such a fun project, equal parts cathartic & meditative. Also it's a novel idea & I'd like to revisit it in the future I think.
I have only the photographs of my 4 projects to remind me of #our52weekproject in Melbourne … but I'm happy with that.
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