tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62270979441800156202024-03-14T01:53:43.139+11:00SlowLookingWelcome to SlowLooking, the site for Petrus Spronk's thoughts and artwork in a slow more considered way.Petrus Spronkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402935651550502691noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227097944180015620.post-39304607948808697652019-03-29T13:40:00.002+11:002019-03-29T13:42:23.483+11:00cornered<span style="background-color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The recent departure of a friend for one of the far off corners of the earth, somewhere in Russia, brought back for me, once again, the very question of corners. Watching the jet take off in its graceful curve from a corner of the Tullamarine airport into the sky, a place without corners, was an experience of great liberation. Imagine, a place without corners..<br /><br />Cornered<br /><br />There are many kind of corners, but the one created by two straight lines and a right angle is probably the most familiar. The arrogance in the naming of this angle as ‘right’, acts as a warning. This is the kind of angle, which, in its very being, threatens. Threatens the organic structure of our existence. I have a thing with these right angles and, in terms of our architecture, the corners they create. What do we use these corners for anyway? Have you really ever seen a good use for a corner? Any corner?<br /><br />I remember, and who doesn’t, as a child having to stand in the corner, whether in school or at home. This act, in itself, shows the waste of space the adult world thinks a corner is. The corners they so diligently designed. “The corner is a waste of space, go stand in it, and be punished”. Interesting thing happened though, especially in the corners of the various class rooms where I’ve spend time. It is there that I started to dream. It is there that my creative journey started. Stuck in a corner. A place of solitude and silence. The solitude of the imagination, born in the silence of a still space. A space not used. A wasted space. <br /><br />My creative journey started with the question; “How do I get out of here.” This questioning carried on into my teenage years when I felt cornered in a job I hated, but had to take as the result of one of those discriminating I.Q. tests. “How do I get out of here” I did and it was the most creative act I have ever executed. Besides the one of taking my first breath.<br /><br />I do wonder what they are actually designed to do, these corners. Even now when I look around other people’s homes, or the various shops and spaces I visit, I wonder what the corners are used for. In the home one corner became useful in the fifties, when we shoved the telly into it, wonder what that says about the telly, and for that matter about speaker boxes. Or. Maybe that is why we developed quadraphonic sound. During more recent times the corners, which once were the domain of the telly and speakers, now have a more sinister role. Many of these useless ‘public’ corner spaces are being taken up by video cameras. Spy Eyes. Cornered while in the middle of a space…. While in the home, more and more, we view the world from the same corner we were once send into for punishment. Sitting in that same corner hour after hour staring into electronic space through a computer screen. Maybe this is the corner’s most positive use yet. Maybe. Or maybe it’s the loo, a place too small for space, just four corners.<br /><br />There are, of course other types of corners. The type we drive people into, by which we show once again that the corner is an awkward space, a difficult position. A place from which there is no escape. <br /><br />Some particular corners I have been looking for all of my life, especially during my travels, are the four corners of the earth. Where do they exist? And if they do, what are they used for.<br /><br />Closer to home in the garden, it is more interesting; there the corner is a place furthest away. The secluded place where poetry tends to be written. While, in the other extreme, corners are used for resting, especially when you are into a bout of boxing. Two people caught within four empty corners. So much negativity, no wonder they start belting each other. Another sport, which uses corners, in this case to turn a disadvantage into an advantage, are the corners of a soccer field. Once these corners are taken most players seem to use, at least for once, their heads to either make or unmake a goal. <br /><br />One Sunday at the Daylesford railway station I observed someone trying to corner the market, an activity more and more local people seem to be involved in. <br /><br />Once we turn the corner inside out we seem to change the negative into the positive. The corner becomes useful. The ‘corner shop’ comes to mind, as does ‘turning the corner’ and ‘just around the corner’. Then there is the ‘poets corner’, ‘the speakers corner’ and ‘corner stone’.<br /><br />As in most cases though, the artists seem to have a creative answer to the problem of the negative corner. He withdraws into it and comes up with a solution.<br /><br />Understanding the total negativity of the corner, and also understanding that two negatives make a positive, the artist puts two corners together and creates four. He stretches a canvas and further hides these four corners by disguising them as a landscape, a portrait or anything abstract which takes his, or her, fancy. Next time you view a painting, think of it as just another attempt to hide four totally empty corners. <br /><br />Remembering my art history lessons I recall something Leonard Da Vinci once said. When painters were faced with nature and lacked inspiration he advised them to: ”Contemplate with a reflective eye the cracks in an old wall.” There is a map of the universe in the lines that time draws on an old wall. The poet also knows this. Like finding something in an empty corner. Not confinement, but the endlessness of space. Creative space. And inspiration.<br /><br />Petrus <br /><br />art@petrusspronk.com<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span>Petrus Spronkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402935651550502691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227097944180015620.post-38931506851356610092019-03-29T13:32:00.000+11:002019-03-29T13:32:23.340+11:00autumn<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;">
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;">“<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Important
lessons. Look carefully. Record what you see. Find a way to make
beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.” from
'Fugitive Pieces' by Anne Michaels</span></span></span></span></div>
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exist to disturb the sleep of the world.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is what the artist and poet do. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
awaken in us a sense of wonder, which is the driver of a creative
life.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
take us on a journey, a special journey, </span></span></span></span>
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a world where we are perishing for want wonder, not for want of
wonders.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">AUTUMN</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
first saw the image of a persimmon painted on a Japanese tea bowl. In
a few simple calligraphic brush strokes all the plumpness and
desirability of that fruit was most tenderlyå expressed. Keats poem,
'Ode the Autumn', came to mind. And, having read this poem, who can
forget its rich remembrance of autumns past when a poet took up his
pen and sketched these lines, which became one of the most famous and
loved poems: here is a reminder:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">“</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Season
of mists and mellow fruitfulness,</span> </i></span></span>
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</span></span><pre style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;</i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Conspiring with him how to load and bless </i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;</i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, </i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; </i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells </i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,</i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And still more, later flowers for the bees, </i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Until they think warm days will never cease,</i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.”</i></span></span></span></span></pre>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yesterday
when I saw the very same persimmon, hanging from a low branch of a
leafless tree. A haiku poem came to mind. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">AUTUMN</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Colour is Fading at the edge of the autumn landscape. The intensity
of the green has been robbed of its brilliance. The green has become
impure. The green has become tinged. The green is dissolving. The
green has weakened just enough to have lost its dominance as 'the
prominent colour' in nature. The overwhelming colours of summer
greens are slowly changing.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
little yellow is edging in. Elbowing its ways through the trees.
Yellow has seen its chance and made the most of it. Yellow, the
vanguard of the autumn incursion, is moving in for the take-over.
Although it has only a relatively short time for its period of
brilliant dominance, this time will be intense, will glow and will
burn bright. The yellows will be closely followed by golds, reds,
various rich browns, oranges and all the other warm reflections of
the autumn colour collection.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During
the following days I noticed a shy slash of scarlet, then a timid
blush of copper, followed be a hesitant line of orange and here and
there somewhat bashful smudges of gold. But, soon after the whole
landscape came alive with a quickly changing colour palette,
transforming the lush green into vermillion, saffron, tangerine,
crimson, ruby red, lutea yellow, magenta and many more. Mother nature
has opened her paintbox and, tentatively, dipped in her brush. A
splash here, a dab there, a little run of colour on this and a
splatter of hue on that. In time she will become bolder until, in the
end, she will blow all caution to the wind. Generously, with abandon,
she will throw about all he colours she has at her disposal. In an
absolute frenzy she will speed-spray-paint everything which was
green. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here,
before our very eyes, colours are indiscriminately mixing and dancing
together to provide us with a visual feast which seems to know no
bounds. Add to that the fragrances associated with this season and we
are in for a feast. A wonderful sensual feast. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
the way to winter, nature leaves a colourful wake.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
this is taken to its natural conclusion we know how this colour
celebration will end. All the colour will drain out of the landscape
and in the end leaves it pure white after the first flurries of snow.
the silent white of snow. The stillness of no colour. Ahhhh.....</span></span></span></span></div>
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delights Always the same. Always different.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Autumns
now and remembered from the past. A time once again remembered in the
visual splendour of the rich deep red plumpness of a simple persimmon
placed on a white ceramic dish.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">This is the worst image I saw this year. As you can imagine it was on
Television. A vision from<span style="background-color: #666666;"><span></span></span> Afghanistan. A small girl child, of about five, was
lying in bed in a makeshift hospital. She had picked up an un-exploded cluster
bomb, a bright yellow plaything compliments of the U.S. While exploring this
newfound toy it exploded, removing in one swift and horrible moment her
beautiful little hand. The image which is staying with me and which is burned
into my brain is that of her mother entering the ward and the confused crying
child placing her good arm around her mother’s neck. I am seeing this image
from behind. The back of the mother and the small vulnerable arm. This gesture
of trust, this hug which places heart to heart, so unnerved me I wept and had
to turn off the TV. I felt like turning it off for good. I had seen too much
misery for one year. But turning off the TV didn’t mean the image went
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">What was it about this which grieved me so.
Maybe this. I have a small girl child friend of about five. When I visit I
always pick her up and experience the unquestioned trust in that small gesture
of her placing an arm around my neck. I also often watch her being picked up by
her parents and delight in observing the same gesture. The placing of the small
arm around the adults neck in Total Trust of the adult world. Or maybe I was
upset by the following. Going back for a moment to the image of that useless
little dead hand lying somewhere in a small rural Afghanistan village where the
people have no history with those who bomb them. Imagine the aftermath of this
relevantly small event of which there are so many. (All of these brutalities,
for the moment, concentrated in this destroyed small child’s hand). What did
this carelessly dropped raw cluster bomb take away. Many possibilities. Many
possibilities to make, to draw, to paint, to prepare food, to garden, to sew,
many possibilities to touch, many possibilities to caress, many possibilities
to wave, many possibilities to gesture. All possibilities to create the most
simple experiences of a life. There are thousands of these people for which
this constant terror is, and has been, a daily experience for a long time now.
Some of these people can’t take anymore and have decided to leave the land of
their birth (imagine that) and find a somewhat safer place elsewhere. And in so
doing risk everything. We have recently seen some of these displaced people
appear on our TV screens. Crammed onto boats. We label these people illegal
immigrants. These people whom some politicians label ‘Possible Terrorists’. </span></span></span></div>
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on common fear. The fear of not knowing. The fear of not understanding. Blind
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what we are now doing with the refugees is right what is there left to be done
that is wrong? What can we, sitting here safely, well fed, well clothed, oon fully
Christmassed, possibly do about this terrible state of affairs. Turn off the TV
when it becomes too much? Why are we, as a nation so afraid of a relative few
people who have only misery to carry with them? Why are we as a nation so
accepting of those continuous lies, cleverly based on our fears? Do we actually
question this, or is it all too difficult. </span></span></div>
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heard an interview with a New Zealand commentator who explained that in New
Zealand the government gives refugees work visas. It has turned out that most
of these people make excellent immigrants. Why? Most probably because they are
resourceful and because they share. Abilities we, in the main, seem to have
lost in the comfort zone of our wellbeing.</span></span></div>
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was a refugee once. All non-indigenous people in this country are, or have
been, in their histories. We all looked for ‘refuge’ in a new land, for
whatever reason. I am a boat person and, like many people, arrived in the late fifties
to a land of promise. This land filled with promises was actually pretty empty.
The promises only those which we could create for ourselves. Empty, with many
possibilities to colour in. To fill with ideas, to fill with creativity, to
fill with culture. </span></span></div>
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you’ll say, there was a culture, a rich Aboriginal culture. However, this was
almost wiped out by the Anglo culture which preceded us newcomers by a mere
couple of centuries. I do not know exactly what this Anglo culture brought to
this land but I remember that it felt empty in the fifties when we arrived from
many other parts of Europe. Since I arrived with a knowledge of the Patisserie
I can only comment on the food<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aspect of
the culture. I most vividly remember the food consciousness at the time. Little
pastry boxes filled with questionable meat stuffs. Pasty Pasties. Poor quality white
bread. The culinary delight of the Adelaide floater. The refined taste of the
vanilla slices. And the endless stream of mono tasting beer. Wine? Wine, I was
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result of the arrival of the post W.W. 2 refugees, then called New Australians,
Ities, Wogs and the like, the culture has changed a great deal. Not only the
food culture but the culture in general has been enriched as a result of what
these refugees brought with them and, additionally, were able to do with their
skills in this country. A big large open space ready for a creative approach,
some resourcefulness, some daring. Some different ideas. Wine? Our wine is now
among the best in the world. This is the result of change. Not the result of
the stagnation of a culture in a fortified place. </span></span></div>
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anyone, voting for ‘the fear view of the world of refugee acceptance’, considered
for a few moments the possible positive side of the refugee crisis aspect?
Considered this as a possible gift?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Considered the newness which these people would bring with them?
Considered the energy which they would offer us? Consider the gratefulness they
would carry in their hearts? Has anyone maybe tried to think where they came
from. Tried to think what it took them to get here. They must be incredible
human beings. And maybe that’s what makes us so uneasy? Their strength and resourcefulnes.
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: blue;">The
government told us there was a crisis. I have always believed that a crisis
offers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>many gifts for learning on a
plate. Are we taking note? Or are we allowing this wonderful opportunity to
pass us by? The gift for the possibility of endless compassion. The gift for an
understanding that to take in a few more people who seek refuge would create
the possibility for change, for movement and for a different view. The more
points of view we can bring to our world, the larger it becomes. It involves
taking a risk. Every step taken outside your comfort zone does. Consider the
prize. Ask the many young Australian travellers exploring new lands who, as a
result, are learning and enriching themselves. However, on the other hand not
taking steps outside your comfort zone would result in an even more scary situation,
down the track.</span></span></div>
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brings me to the second worst thing I saw ever. Again on Television. People
jumping from the ‘perceived’ comfort zone of the World Trade Towers. Everything
is connected. That little hand blown off was the indirect result of that event.
But what brought that event about in the first place? Where did this event have
its roots? People who have dared to speculate have been labelled un-American
and most probably un-Australian as well. Think about it. In the end the
ultimate result was a child’s little hand dead to many of the possibilities a
life offers. The least we could do is offer a little more generous point of
view. Happy christmas!</span></span></div>
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her book 'fugitive pieces': "Important lessons. Look carefully. Record
what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity
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way from one creative project to another, be it a commission, an exhibition or
a piece of writing. Each project presents a challenge to make it worthwhile,
because without a challenge it would not provide any learning. </span></span></span></div>
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as my most recent one. This project announced itself, to my surprise, with the
diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease eight years ago. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I knew
instinctively that I was up for the major challenge of my life.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Medication has kept the disease at bay for much of
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involved. I also decided to change the name from Parkinson’s disease to Parkinson’s
gift, which has already changed my attitude in a more positive direction. Up
till now I have kept my Parkinson’s quiet but having become more obvious, I
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recently when the Parkinson’s I was diagnosed with some years ago, but which
was kept under control by medication, is now snapping at my heels. This means
that my head and hands go into different directions and have a totally
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My gait has changed, so if
you see me in the street and I walk a bit differently I am not under the
influence of alcohol or dope, but that of my Parkinson’s, who insists on
walking with me everywhere I go, and wherever possible trip me up. </span></span></span></div>
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for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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ceramic making seems to be almost at an end, because the fine motor skills I
need to employ are the most affected. However such is my life and I will keep
the creative spirit going in one way or another. Because it is, and has always
been, the meaning of my life. </span></span></span></div>
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use the same approach as when I was diagnosed with cancer, the treatment of
which I aided by making it into an art project, which helped me to cope”.</span></span></span></div>
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been in charge, this newest one has taken charge of me. I have very little say
in it. In fact, I know little about it and found out soon enough that this
project, of which I am the subject, is directed mostly by doctors. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">In order to get some sort of handle on this new
development of my life, I decided, as part of the gift, to document the process.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And now,
looking at the diagnosis of my Parkinson’s in a different way, there waits the
possibility for these coming experiences to be interpreted through art. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Parkinson’s diagnosis, like
any challenging art project, has knocked me out of my comfort zone, this one more
so than any. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></div>
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a small boat on a rough sea. I do have a paddle and am able to give it some
direction, some meaning. I intend to employ my imagination and by turning the
event into a work of art I, at least, have that control. And since this is the
only control I have, I'll take it. </span></span></span></div>
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</span></span>Petrus Spronkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402935651550502691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227097944180015620.post-51781866409056565222016-06-20T11:29:00.002+10:002016-06-20T11:29:24.041+10:00InDefenceOfPublicSculpture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">In defence of public sculpture</span></span></span></div>
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a writer, an artist, an architect or any practitioner of the arts places his or
her work in the public domain there will always be those who like it and those
who don’t. This can result in controversy. If artists were to respond to every
criticism they would never create anything. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">In all
fields of life t</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">here is so much more beyond our own
experience. It is the artist’s job to show the way by courageously exploring
the new.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In my view, liking an artwork is not really what matters.
It’s more a question of how art challenges us or finds a way to speak to us, to
open up a new awareness. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I remember a public sculpture by Ron Robertson Swan designed for the Town
Square in central Melbourne. The sculpture, accepted by the Council, was vilified
by then City of Melbourne Mayor who, using art as a political football, renamed
it the ‘yellow peril’ from ‘the vault’. This new ‘title’ stuck and shaped the
general public’s response to the art work. Is there, I wonder, a role for our
leaders to guide citizens into an understanding of new artworks?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">All this says less about the quality of art and more about people who
stoke the flames of artificially created controversies. They have not done the
work, have not taken the risks, their lives and livelihood are not bound up at
every moment with what they are making, who have given thought to the medium or
the method. Artists take risks by exposing their ideas in the public realm. At
every moment their lives are bound up with whatever they are making, with
exploring new boundaries.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Many years ago I designed a work for Swanston Street Melbourne- a shard
of architecture emerging out of the pavement- may hated the idea, thought it
was inappropriate and expressed these sentiments even before the work was
installed. However, I persevered and the council saw its merit even if not many
amongst the populace did. In time, the work was installed and has since grown to
become one of Melbourne’s icons plus a well loved sculpture.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Over the years the sculpture has gained popularity and received awards
locally and internationally: a Melbourne newspaper poll voted it the most popular
sculpture in town. Recently it was included in an internet survey of the top 25
creative sculptures around the world. The prestigious magazine ‘Architectural
Digest’ included ‘Architectural Fragment’ as one amongst eleven of the most
fascinating sculptures in the world. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I remember the hullabaloo created by citizens of Melbourne when plans
for that huge sculpture, which is Federation Square, were made public. Since
then it has become one of the most loved and popular meeting places in the
land. The new and change are always challenging. But without change and the new
we would still be in the dark ages.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">There were similar controversies surrounding the
Sydney opera house, another iconic blend of architecture and sculpture that
now, along with Uluru, is the image representing Australia to many around
world. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Arts advisory panels exist all around the world
promoting creative endeavours within their communities, connecting past,
present and future, opening our eyes to things we may not see, unlocking rooms that
may be closed within us, helping to make meaning of our lives and, in the words
of Anne Michaels ‘to find a way to make beauty necessary and a way to make
necessity beautiful’. </span></span></span></div>
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the Second World War, Winston Churchill’s finance minister said Britain should
cut arts funding to support the war effort. Churchill’s response: “Then what
are we fighting for?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">a beautiful visual moment to savor</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">thoughts on an introspective winter’s
day </span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is interesting that
it takes the experience of the start of the ‘forever sleep’ of one person to awaken
another. Following one such event, this question arrived for me. Am I using the
days I have left well? Like today for instance. A normal everyday day, but with
a difference. It is one of those glorious early winter days. A fresh clear
morning followed by a warm sunny day. How do I spend such a day well. Enjoy it?
Realising that it is happening? Acknowledging it? I decided to take notice of
the seasons and start this exercise by giving these moments of wonder some
attention.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The
Rain has washed the trees dustless, creating in the green a vibrancy which can
be felt. The type of vibrant green just before autumn turns it golden. The sun
shines gently warm and the blue of the sky has a soft edge. A seemingly perfect
background for the grey thrush, with a song so clear, with a sound so clean,
with a melody so charming, with a resonance so wide and overwhelming as to fill
up, to the point of the divine, the whole of the moment. A moment of wonder.
Drink this moment, hold it close to your heart.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Light and death</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Each
day contains some magic, all we need to do is open our eyes to it and jump
aboard while it passes by. How could we not take notice, How could we deny
this. Why else are we here. Ride the beauty of the moment so that, when just
before being placed in our own box, we will not feel any ‘regret’. (Regret is
and has always been an absolute waste of time. There are so many better ways of
using the moment.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As
the other evening a little before sunset. I watched at the edge of a foreign lake
while an empty old wooden boat, on fire, floated slowly on the still water
mirror. A fisherman cremating his past. A moment filled brimful with poetic
content. A sight where, for the moment, nothing else was needed. I hold this
moment close to my heart.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Life and dark</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As
the other morning, the sky the colour of slate, clouds so low the tops of the
trees in the forest were invisible. As if the trees were suspended from the
clouds. From this grey space huge colourful flowers dropped onto the ground,
only to rise again a little later to re-enter that same space of nothingness.
Fluttering feeding Rosellas. I held this moment in both hands.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">None of this needs any
economic rationale or development to be appreciated, rather, it needs a tiny
shift in attitude, or a smack in the head such as the death of a dear one, when
all of a sudden a few things become clear. As clear as a drop of dew mirroring
our dreams, and the immense size of the world filled with moments of wonder. A
world so much bigger than our concerns. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Light and death </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">I take notes from one of my teachers. A big fat white goose,
who lives on the pond at the bottom of the garden. After all, when all is said
and done, she finishes up in the same place as we all do. How does she spend her
day. She floats upon the water with the grace of a galleon. Then banks and
performs the most exquisite ballet-like yoga exercises/stretches. While engaged
in this, her shape becomes a living kinetic sculpture. She preens endlessly,
then tucks her head under her wing, pulls one leg up under her feather skirt
and snoozes her inner landscapes into reality. What is its purpose? What is its
meaning?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">I also take notice from another one of my teachers. I
remember four year old Lutea, my creative guardian, in my garden, who, after
having struggled to open a long dark dried bean pod, stands there momentarily
wondering unbelievingly at the beauty of a set of six polished purple and black
beans lined up inside. Surprise. I try to keep my heart open for moments such
as these.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Life and dark</span></b></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
wish not ever to say: “I wish I had…….”.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">a p.s. to my last blog</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">with an apology to those </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">who find it hard to read the red font</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">just another thought about the work of the panel </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">and those in creswick who are busy </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">trying to undermine that work</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">allow me to comfort you dear creswick citizens</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">with the thought that when i was in the same position </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> design<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing</span> the 'architectural fragment' </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">many hated the idea of a piece of broken architecture </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> in the main street of melbourne, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">but i persevered and won the council over </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">although not many of the populace</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">however, in time, the work got installed </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">and has grown into one of melbourne's icons </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">and a very well loved sculpture</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">which over the years has received a few awards </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">of being the most popular sculpture in town </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">and recently was included in </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">the top 25 creative sculptures in the world.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">and more recently the prestigious magazine </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">architectural digest </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> surveyed 11 of the world's most fascinating</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">sculptures and the fragment was one of them </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so, dear citizens of creswick</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">please hang in there</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">don't take any notice of th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ose undermining the work</span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">you'll be surprised what will e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ventuate</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t</span>he work is in place and people, </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">especially through the eyes of the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ir</span> kids,</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will start to enjoy it </span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">and it will be a much visited and photographed work</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> just like my fragment</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">A few
thoughts about art and the ignorant</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Whenever
writer or an artist or an architect, or any practitioner of the arts makes his
or her work public there will always be those that like it and those that do
not. This will usually result in some sort of a controversy. Therefore if you
are engaged in one of those cultural fields you better have a thick skin.
Because if you take any notice of these criticisms from the ill informed, you
will never create anything.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">A case
in point is the proposal for the public sculpture for Creswick‘s Calembeen park.
With which councillor Henderson is playing childish games, especially since he
sat in when the arts panel was deliberating and had a chance to make remarks,
and the remarks he made during that meeting where encouraging. Then in last
week’s paper the same councillor Henderson who seemed to agree to the choice of
the arts panel, since there was no protest from him, when they met to
deliberate, is now appearing in the local paper with another sculptor and his lump
of cement parading as an alternative sculpture, stating that the locals were
unhappy with ‘dearest’, with the ‘local campaigner’ (and what does that exactly
mean) Kronenberg, getting in his few bob’s worth by starting the rumour to call
the sculpture the wrecking ball and thus undermining the work. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">All this
says nothing about the art, but plenty about the people stoking the flames of
this artificially created controversy. The ignorant, the lazy, the plain
confused and ill informed have not done the work, have not taken the risks,
whose live and livelihood are not bound up at every moment with what they are
making, who have given no thought to the medium or the method but will momentarily
glance up from their latte or beer and make their lukewarm statements as if
they know about art.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">They
show the Creswick audience that they can absorb in a few moments, and without
any effort the sum total of the artist and his art.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">How do
you think the artist feels when he, in good faith, puts his idea forward to the
arts panel whom, in good faith, deliberated and came to their conclusion, which
they then presented to the council. They are only advising and the council makes
the final and in this case, the right decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">I stated
before that as an artist you need a thick skin, it seems that in Creswick as an
artist you need an extra thick skin.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Life
shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage and to be an artist you have
to be courageous</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Petrus
spronk. artist</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;"> <span style="color: #b45f06;">Taking the wild out of wildlife</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">The
morning is autumn, fresh and cool but promising a warm sunny day. All seems
well in the world, until a scream tears a hole in the peaceful morning silence.
Until a car driving through the forest hits a kangaroo and leaves it, with its
joey still in its pouch, lying on the side of the road. The driver, either in a
hurry or not caring, or plainly bereft of any feeling, drives on. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Meanwhile
the kangaroo and its joey unable to move are discovered by a couple of people,
more caring who, on a morning walk along the track, find the kangaroo and desperately
want to help. However, since they are from the city and just do not know what
to do in such an event, are at a loss of how to deal with it. Having only just
passed my house they decide to knock on my door and ask me for advice. Luckily
I am home and I know exactly what to do. I call the guardian angels John and
Gail, the loving spirits of the local wild life shelter. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Besides acting
as doctors for many animals, they are also the ambulance service to collect them,
from wherever they are found, plus caring nurses during the time the animals
are at their care. Plus more, so much more. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Soon
after I call, John arrives and after having examined the damage and sedated the
kangaroo places her in his car and takes her home. Here he and his partner Gail
will mend the damage and nurse her back to health, after which they’ll release her
back into the forest. This is a day and night commitment of being present to
collect, give first aid, nurse and care for their charges.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">It is
here, tucked away in the wombat forest, that John Rowdon and Gail Chappel, both
environmental scientists, practice their particular concept of love for animals.
Besides the kangaroos, which are the most represented, there are all sorts of
animals in need of care. Their place is a veritable zoo. including a variety of
birds, wombats, koalas, they even have an emu. Plus a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>variety of reptiles. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">John and
Gail, work, or should I say slave, away and practice compassion and empathy by
creating a healing and gentle-life in their wild-life shelter. With much love
and even more patience they have worked away for many years to look after wild
life which has been damaged by fencing, by cars and more and more by dogs. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">During
one year, for instance, they responded to 700 calls. There were 140 kangaroos,
32 wallabies, 30 wombats, 32 possums, 5 gliders, 23 koalas, 152 birds, 5
lizards, 3 echidnas, 11 micro bats, plus 1 phascogale. Of those animals 82 were
euthanized due to their injuries and 76 died. 276 made it back into the wild. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">This
number of animals needing care has greatly increased today due to the drought. The
animals come closer to where people live, and to the roads on the side of which
they like to graze due to the availability of native grasses there, which they
favour.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">All this
begs the question; how do they raise the funds to carry on their remarkable
work. The shelter is in need of food, medicines, bandages, potions, syringes
and blankets and probably many more costs that I do not know about. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">So dear
readers let’s get together on this project. If you, just once a week for three
weeks, give up a cup of coffee and donate the money thus saved, you would be
able to donate $10.00 (tax deductible) per month. Their project is titled
WILD500. Because they need 500 people to partake to keep their work alive,
which at the moment is mainly funded by the occasional donations and their
credit card. And frankly, they deserve better. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">This is
the info you need to donate to WILD500. Please do it. Contact your bank and
direct debit $10.00 per month from your account into the direct deposit at the
Bendigo bank. BSB 633-000, Account 148 1 19613, and you can be assured that you
are saving precious wild life without you having to lift a finger.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">I have
signed up to this, I hope you will too.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Petrus</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">art@petrusspronk.com</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"You don't have to make art to
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is commonly understood that most students who take art as
a subject at school will not become artists. However, I feel that it is also
understood that those who attend art classes will have their lives greatly
enriched by an understanding of art and by the way they have learned to look
and see. This is a great way to experience one’s life since it provides us with
a visual appreciation of that which is freely available all around us. Plus it could
provide us with an incredible tool for use in dealing with daily problems,
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was. Play and engage freely with materials to find out what they could do and
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That learning does not only happen in one’s head. All my learning, as an
artist, has initially come from the engagement with the world through my hands.
And through my hands my head became involved. Most of my learning has not come
about from sitting in a desk, working with my mind/brain only. It has come
about from doing. The rather narrow approach of desk learning does, for many
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self. A place of wonder and magic. A place where we can develop a sense of love
for beauty, a place where we learn to enjoy the world from a visual point of
view. A place where we are able to engage with, and possibly practice, the
visual poetry of life. A place where we can play, and it is through play that
much learning happens. Why do you think babies play all the time? It is the
gateway to learning through discovery. Give a child a cardboard box and he or
she will be away in play-land, in make believe-land, for ages. Discovering. Learning.</span></span></span></div>
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that I realised that most choices, but career choices especially, were based on
one of two ways of thinking. We can either choose for our heart (the love of,
or passion for, a certain activity) or for our purse (how much money we will
make from our chosen work). If we choose for our heart, we may, may, find
happiness. If, additionally, we learn to trust the process we will always be
able to take care of ourselves (I have a strong believe that that which has put
us here, will also provide.) When, on the other hand, we choose for our purse
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that fantastic photo, to shape the earth, is all working toward the
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recently of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was 6 years old and
sitting in the back drawing. She hardly ever paid attention, but in this
drawing lesson she did. The teacher was fascinated And went over to the little
girl and she asked her what she was drawing and the little girl said: ‘I am
drawing a picture of god’. And the teacher said, but nobody knows what god
looks like. And the little girl said: ‘they will in a minute.” Sir Ken Robinson</span></i></span></span></div>
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used during droughts for the grazing of animals. I thought that for my journey,
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I came across a most impressive artwork,
near the town of Keith, just across the border into S.A. An installation
reaching from horizon to horizon, consisted of huge horizontal fields painted
in the most vivid greens. It appeared as if they were illuminated, as if lit
from below. This intense green was interspersed with large flat areas of canola
yellow displayed under a tightly stretched blue sky. (these fields reminded me
of the hard edge paintings of the 60s). In this immense bright space, as far as
the eye could see, brilliant piles of blindingly white lime rocks in the shape
of large pyramids were placed in a chaotic pattern. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A beautiful and moving work made over many
years by hardworking artist farmers. Would they be aware of the intrinsic
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individual galleries, which make up this intriguing long gallery, are lined with
the woven yellow wool textures, created by numerous craft workers, in the shape
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tinged with the localised scent of fresh grass both grown and mown. A glorious
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of the most exquisitely wood block prints of Silky Oak trees in their various
manifestations, still, blown about, adorned with rain, dry, summer, winter. These
works were expressed in fine spider web like drawings. The type of art Albrecht
Durer would create. The black and white compositions stood out especially under
a ceiling painted with galleon like clouds in the colours of the sunrise
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arched and bridge like, solid stone and steel. Each one had, on the top of the
bridge, a video installation, showing the sky with traffic passing on it.
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numerous Sculpture Galleries. There seems a three dimensional spaciousness to
these particular exhibitions. In one of the galleries there was only one work
on display. It was massive. On a line patterned plain, arose a wonderful
arrangement of dark rocks. Both elegant and strong. Studied simplicity. Images
of the famous Japanese rock gardens came to mind, only much larger. The
interesting aspect in this exhibit was an additional arrangement of clouds
obscuring the very top of the rock arrangement. Besides the hard/soft contrast of
the composition, the more intriguing aspect of this work was the fact that the
top part was unseen. Our imagination was motivated to finish this work. Strong
Grampians Art. </span></span></span></div>
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in a close and final lover’s embrace, present a horrific still life. Very
still. The engine block of one cuddled in the back seat of the other. Steering
wheels around each other like caressing hands. Cracked headlights staring
brokenly eye to eye. Steam hisses from the bend intertwined fenders. Final Hot
Kiss. The visitor walks on broken glass. There are body parts and lots of the
colour red is splashed about. The work is lit with flashing spotlights. Still
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also found some another type of art, off-putting art, ‘lump’ as art. I refer
here to a lump of dark grey concrete titled: ‘The Big Koala” It sits on the
side of the road and people enter into it through its crutch. What are they
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rewarded with a remarkable installation. Painted against a backdrop of a South
Australian spring blue sky I came across an installation titled: ‘The Adelaide
hills in Spring’. A beautiful and intense work in many nuances of green, dotted
with stunning displays of tree blossoms in pink and white. Memories of cherry
blossom tours into the hills during the seventies. The whole washed in ethereal
light, colour splashed freely about and all that to the soundtrack of the
inevitable choir of magpies.</span></span></span></div>
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sun-tanned bronze calligraphy of fallen pine needles etched in the black wet
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took my breath away and reminded me of seeing nature as art, seeing nature with
fresh eyes, seeing it as if for the first time. Everywhere. </span></span></span></div>
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Petrus Spronkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402935651550502691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227097944180015620.post-47337079672352384562016-01-14T10:33:00.001+11:002016-01-14T10:44:13.463+11:00TheArtyOfConfrontingTheBeasty<span style="background-color: black;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Last Sunday morning, a
soft gentle sunny day, so typical of this time of year around here, I was
confronted by a snake.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">"Was it a big
one"? You may ask. Every snake who surprises you is big. This one was.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The Art of Confronting the Beasty</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Stepping outside my studio for a breath of fresh air, there it
was, basking its magical geometry in the mid-morning sun just outside my door.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">First reaction. "Kill". I didn't though.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Why, I wondered, is our first reaction always to kill this
magnificent beast. This symbol of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>creative spirit. This unfairly cast character in Adam and Eve's play.
This most exquisitely patterned primordial piece of living rope. This silent
slitherer.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Is this reaction built into our genes, is it the aggressive side
of my male nature or is it fear. Blind fear. As in not being able to see. Not
being able to understand.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">I am not by nature aggressive and there was nothing to defend. I
wasn't afraid of it in any way. A<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>little
weary maybe, but not afraid.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">We fear things mainly because we don't understand them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">In my case 'Fear' would have to apply to the meeting with the
snake. Fear in relation to failing to understand. I don't know the particular
ways of this marvellous mover. All I know about snakes are the indoctrinated
and scary stories, whether they are from the biblical times of my childhood and
therefore very strong, or more recent from anyone else, real or made up.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">I slowly stepped back inside my studio to consider all this and,
after considering, decided to try<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
understand. To try and learn about the snake. After all, it was only early
summer and I had a long snake time to come yet.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">I have stated that 'Learning is the best healer' in this column
before.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">First therefore, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a re-look
at my 'snake history'. I started my life in Australia at Bonegilla, where
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>authorities educated/scared us with
horror stories about snakes and spiders. Following this my first job was on a
farm in N.S.W. It was hot and there were many snakes. I was taught how to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kill them. Effectively. Next I moved to the
city of churches, Adelaide. The only snakes I had to watch out for there were
of an entirely different kind. After a short stint in the city, for my
education, I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>returned to the country,
the Flinder's Ranges in fact. There on the very day I moved into an old farm
house I found a snake moving in at the same address. I didn't ask its name, nor
did I introduce myself. I killed it. Afterwards I wondered why that made me
feel awful.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Since moving into the forest, locally, I have hardly ever seen any
snakes. Yet there are plenty around. Maybe I don't give them any attention.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">I considered our collective arrogance summed up in the idea of:
There is an animal, it doesn't suit me, BANG. Kill it. It begs the question.
Doesn't<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>any animal has as much right to
live on this patch as we have. Probably more so. It has been here much, much
longer. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">What is it with this white man attitude? I know, the problem with
most animals is that they don't understand that they need to claim their bit of
real estate by going to the Council and obtain their claim with a proper
document, like us, superior beings. Then they would be able to do what they
liked. Shoot things, poison stuff,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cut
down trees, the whole catastrophy. </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">After these thoughts ran through my head I still had to deal with
the snake. My 'concept' of snake,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which
is different to a real one. I took off my glasses labelled 'Fear' and sat down
near the snake. I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>talked to it. I explained
that we could live together but that there were certain rules. Easy. I sat and
talked to it quietly for a long time. I was able to get quite close. There was
no reason for it to attack me nor for me to kill it. In reality there hardly
ever is. I have shown it the respect it deserves and now we will work on
sharing this space, on living together.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">"Silly Bugger" a neighbour said. 'Blind fear' I
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;">dear friends<br /><br />you may have heard about <br />the local lives global matters conference <br />which will be held on the 16th, 17th and 18th of october <br />in castlemaine. <br /><br />check the website for the flyer and the fullk program notes <br />@ www.locallivesglobalmatters.org<br /><br />i would like to make you especially aware of a lecture <br />i will be presented during sunday the 18th <br />from 11am to 12.30 pm in the ray bradfield room, <br />which is just behind the market building.<br /><br />my lecture is another look <br />at the life of an artist <br />who has his own ideas <br />about small foot prints <br />and sustainable practices. <br /><br />this is an intense presentation <br />with a poetic look at the practices of a ceramist <br />which i have delivered to great acclaim at two regional galleries <br />but so far not yet in my own home district. <br /><br />this is a talk not to be missed. <br />come and do yourself a favour <br />plus give yuorself a sunday treat. <br /><br />then stay around of you wish <br />for other interesting presentations. <br />a day ticket costs $80.00 for waged and $50.00 for unwaged, <br />while a single talk cost $15.00 for waged and $10.00 unwaged, <br />which is very cheap for my amazing presentation.<br /><br />hoping to see you there<br /><br />i look forward to present a great event<br /><br />petrus</span></span><br /><br /> </div>
Petrus Spronkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402935651550502691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227097944180015620.post-9556270527857365412015-07-30T14:22:00.002+10:002015-07-30T14:24:34.690+10:00JustMona<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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at high speed through clouds into a soft blue space. After landing with a
slight rumble onto the tarmac at Hobart, we were ready for Mona.</span></div>
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would be good. A ferry ride up the Derwent river to the Mona landing followed
by 99 steps took us to the entrance. A wonderful way to arrive. However, before
we entered the Museum of Old and New Art there was much to see outside. Set in
a frame of heavy slabs of rusted steel, a border with the outside world, we
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welcomed us into the land of magic and wonder. Wandering on we found ‘Chapel’, a
building created from similar rusted steel by the same artist. ‘Exquisite’ comes
to mind. Next, a huge slab of aluminium, suspended in the sky, has a square
hole cut in it. I sit below it and view a framed aspect of the sky. This simple
but strong and beautiful work seems based on the concept of the Zen view.</span></div>
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to enter the museum. Two doors of black glass, situated in a wall of mirrored
metal, slide silently open into the entrance and the world of magic. The magic
of art, the magic of architecture, plus the magic of both brilliance and
madness combined. One takes a circular lift into a subterranean world and lands
into a space, I imagine, not unlike that of Alice in wonderland. The first
artwork to be experienced, besides the astonishing architecture, which, by the
way, reminded me of being in an Egyptian pyramid, was a work where water
dropped from a horizontal pipe and in that dropping created words. One word
after the other dropping from above. Random words. Readable rain. A mesmerising
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fire-engine red plastic, (Imagine this car blown up and becoming very fat,)
were many truly fantastic works to be enjoyed, to marvel at and be surprised
by. Works such as an eerie room, like a tomb. You walk on stepping stones, set
in black water, towards a platform with two coffins, one with a mummy and one
with video of the same mummy, which slowly reveals the inside of the mummy. So,
in time, a skeleton is revealed. A powerful piece. In another space, on a black
wall is a line of 77 3d white porcelain prints of vaginas. Each one different.
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when the cold cuts right through your clothing no matter how warm you are
dressed. I was walking up the bleakness of Vincent Street on my way to the Daylesford
primary school to attend the sustainable housing expo, a project by the younger
students of the school. </span></span></span></div>
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classes had each made a model of a house with special attention to the possible
sustainable qualities. Qualities which they had learned about as part of this
term’s project. </span></span></span></div>
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this brief as there were students. The variety of the work was enjoyable, impressive,
inspiring and creatively exciting. I was once again reminded that whenever I see
creative work by our young people I, as a member of the older generation, feel pretty
hopeful that the future is in good hands, as I did once again when I viewed
this particular expo.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I loved the creative answers the kids had
come up with. The way things were interpreted. In some of the designs it was
clearly evident that dad or mum had partaken in the task at hand, which I thought
was another wonderful aspect of this project. Working together with your mum or
dad. Working together with your son or daughter. Excellent outcome. In my
mind’s eye I saw the family gathered around the table during a winter’s evening,
knotting out the problems and finding answers. What stood out in all of this
creation of architecture was the creative use of ordinary stuff. Stuff, that
lies around the house, to interpret the various objects depicted as part of
their buildings. For instance the use of a set of CDs as solar panels, or a
drinking straw as a rainwater pipe. Simple. Effective.</span></span></span></div>
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continuation of the school’s kitchen garden project. Another project where kids
are learning about care, wastage plus the growing, preparation and presentation
of food. The thoughts entered my mind that in relation to my experience of
primary school there was no comparison. Learning today seems such fun.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">As if that wasn’t enough, there are those
benefits of this project that you cannot see but that</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">
are just as important, if not more so. The fact that the kids who had taken
part in this project will, from now on, have a new awareness about housing.
When out and about, they will notice the things they have learned about in the
environment around them and take notice. Thus they will keep on learning. The subtlest
result of this project</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">With
a project such as this, many aspects of learning are touched upon. Art, design,
mathematics. model-making etc.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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students who take art as a subject at school will not become artists. However,
those who attend art classes will have their lives greatly enriched by the way
they have learned to look and see. This goes for all the other subjects as well.
Learning about these things creates a greater awareness and thus a richer life
experience.</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"></span></i></span></span></div>
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with another very important lesson. That learning does not only happen in one’s
head. Learning also happens from engaging the world with one’s hands, through one’s
hands. Learning does not only come about from sitting at a desk. This rather
narrow approach of desk learning does, for many students, at times more harm
then good.</span></span></span></div>
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the absolute enthusiasm with which the students answered my questions and
explained their work, it was obvious that this approach of making is successful
and all involved should be commended for the creation of joy and pleasure in
the learning process.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"></span></span>Petrus Spronkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402935651550502691noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227097944180015620.post-73711534263577736982015-06-13T11:09:00.001+10:002015-06-13T11:14:43.281+10:00for the NGV collection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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went to visit Mona, I now believe in GOD.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;">After
running the gauntlet of ‘stuff you don’t need’ at the airport. After being shot
at high speed through clouds into a soft blue space. After landing with a
slight rumble onto the tarmac at Hobart, we were ready for Mona.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;">Where
does one begin with this amazing and magical place. I suppose at the start
would be good. A ferry ride up the Derwent river to the Mona landing followed
by 99 steps took us to the entrance. A wonderful way to arrive. However, before
we entered the Museum of Old and New Art there was much to see outside. Set in
a frame of heavy slabs of rusted steel, a border with the outside world, we
wandered and wondered from one art piece to another. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;">A
larger then life cement truck created from waste sheets of rusted steel
welcomed us into the land of magic and wonder. Wandering on we found ‘Chapel’, a
building created from similar rusted steel by the same artist. ‘Exquisite’ comes
to mind. Next, a huge slab of aluminium, suspended in the sky, has a square
hole cut in it. I sit below it and view a framed aspect of the sky. This simple
but strong and beautiful work seems based on the concept of the Zen view.</span></span></span></div>
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to enter the museum. Two doors of black glass, situated in a wall of mirrored
metal, slide silently open into the entrance and the world of magic. The magic
of art, the magic of architecture, plus the magic of both brilliance and
madness combined. One takes a circular lift into a subterranean world and lands
into a space, I imagine, not unlike that of Alice in wonderland. The first
artwork to be experienced, besides the astonishing architecture, which, by the
way, reminded me of being in an Egyptian pyramid, was a work where water
dropped from a horizontal pipe and in that dropping created words. One word
after the other dropping from above. Random words. Readable rain. A mesmerising
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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this work and the last, which was a full size Porsch, manufactured in
fire-engine red plastic, (Imagine this car blown up and becoming very fat,)
were many truly fantastic works to be enjoyed, to marvel at and be surprised
by. Works such as an eerie room, like a tomb. You walk on stepping stones, set
in black water, towards a platform with two coffins, one with a mummy and one
with video of the same mummy, which slowly reveals the inside of the mummy. So,
in time, a skeleton is revealed. A powerful piece. In another space, on a black
wall is a line of 77 3d white porcelain prints of vaginas. Each one different.
Then there are numerous multimedia works and video installations. Plus
throughout, special pieces of ancient art. One wonders where David Walsh, the creator
of Mona, got these treasures. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;">There
was a clue when after a day spend in the museum, I once more wondered around
outside and found his reserved car park. It stated in big bold letters ‘reserved’
‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GOD</b>’, with a slick car in front of
it. GOD was home. Next to this was an equally shiny Mercedes with the words
‘reserved’ ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GOD</b>’s mistress’ on the
wall. </span></span></span></div>
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is why now, after visiting one of the most amazing museums I have ever experienced,
I believe in GOD. Go and visit Mona. You haven’t lived until you do. You may
even get a glimpse of GOD if he isn’t gambling somewhere, that is, to make more
money to finance his wonderful museum.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;">June
2015</span></span></span></div>
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Petrus Spronkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402935651550502691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227097944180015620.post-17607555402744290302015-01-26T16:26:00.002+11:002015-01-26T16:45:16.361+11:00ContainerContained<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK4DDL6TaFwzTOqWE1eIJd4j3kPE3HhDUNiYXUbgZYTPJGxgPOkdv4oRs6Z9f3jFWB8R4yjqk9_uI8PpfNMaoW1lkhGS8O8_AJCdT94wHRVeyOpBObgQY2te-dURhQx8bc9EOSWb6vYCU/s1600/PC210004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK4DDL6TaFwzTOqWE1eIJd4j3kPE3HhDUNiYXUbgZYTPJGxgPOkdv4oRs6Z9f3jFWB8R4yjqk9_uI8PpfNMaoW1lkhGS8O8_AJCdT94wHRVeyOpBObgQY2te-dURhQx8bc9EOSWb6vYCU/s1600/PC210004.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;"> The other day i had a good idea</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">and when you have a good idea </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">you should act upon it, which i did</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">the good idea was to obtain a container </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">and to paint it white and place shelving around it</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">but then when i had placed all the brackets </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">i couldn't help myself </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">and do something different</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">just for a photo</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">which i did</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;"> when, after a while</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">i installed the shelving</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">plus the bowls</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">it looked great</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">then, when this was finished,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">(just have to install the led strip lights</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">which i will)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">as a celebration of this result </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">i took a walk in the forest and was rewarded </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">with this beautiful image</span></span></div>
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--><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">' Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one's courage'</span></b></span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">no more words are needed</span></span></div>
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Petrus Spronkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402935651550502691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227097944180015620.post-41048546997022299862014-10-12T14:20:00.001+11:002014-10-12T14:24:11.366+11:00ACelebrationOfSilence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"> the landscape</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">is divided into halves</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">by the linear road ahead </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">on the road to lake mungo</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">although the earth is deep red</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">and the sky is liquid blue</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">there is a greyness about the vegatation</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">as if everything is covered </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">in an ancient coating </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">of spidery fine dust</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">on the edge of the lake</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">which has been empty for 15.000 years</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">is a huge woolshed</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">which has been empty for probably </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">one hundred years</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">on this raised spot </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">i feel as if i am standing on the edge </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">of a huge shallow bowl</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">filled with desert delight</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">the delight of silence</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">to be in this tremendous stillness</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">the lure of the desert</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">the healer of the spirit</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"> The soft airbrushed sand of the edge, the lunette, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">of the lake</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">when the full moon, like a coin, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">in the east and rose majestically into the darkening sky</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">where it hung suspended silently,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">a small fire at the end of the day</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">as a companion to enjoy the night sky </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Keeping 'the art of
making' alive in our community becomes an important responsibility. Why?
Because we, the homeless artists of door3, believe society and the community
needs artists. Artists</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> are important because they
are brave enough to still play. To play with old and new materials, with old
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Consider this, and</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> then imagine the alternative, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">life without art and
poetry. I mean the art and poetry of everything. Doing without the art of
sculpture, the art of architecture, the art of ceramics, the art of dance, the
art of cooking, and on and on. Without 'the art' all of these activities would
be dead. Meaning, they would not inspire, they would not excite, they would not
enrich. Art, like science, is important because it inspires both exploration
and greatness in all fields of human endeavour. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The artist, for whom I speak, plays, and through his or her play with
ideas and materials, occasionally comes up with a revelation, a beautiful idea,
an exquisite object, a great building, an intriguing story or a moving
poem. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The artist and the poet explore and share the possibilities of magic in
an otherwise ordinary world. They show, in one way or another, that there is
always another way. The artist and the poet are important in our community
because they teach us to play. They remind us of something as simple, but
relevant, as our childhood, when there was much magic. Much learning. The magic
found in experiencing things for the very first time. Things new. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75;">A wonderful amorous peacock </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75;">struts his stuff around Jubilee lake </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75;">a grand display of an exquisite design</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75;">there is a saying in Korea: </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75;">It is so beautiful no words are needed</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>'everywhere I go an artist has been there before me'</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">i received this today</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">it was taken in the south of France</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">which has to be a plus</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">when you are confronted with your name</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">(which, in my case, is already somewhat unusual)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">in such an surprising expression of it</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">it makes you feel </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">a little strange</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">a little familiar</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">a little confident</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">a little grateful</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">and then to find out that Petrus </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">is also the name of one of the best wines in France</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">makes it even more special</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">it reminded me of my personal project while i was in France</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">i hitchhiked through France a few times </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">(a terrible country to hitchhike through by the way)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">i would thank the driver for stopping </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">and then in my best french i would introduce myself </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">and tell him/her where i was from, and that i was on a quest</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">this was to find the best red wine in France </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">and the answer to that was that each time</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">the wine from their village was the very best.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">as a result of this idea i would quite often be taken to </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">a hotel, or house or farm and offered a glass of excellent red wine</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">i have drunk many glasses of excellent wine</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">and once i was offered a glass of wine </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">to try it out and to give them my opinion </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">i was always offered a snack of cheese, pate, sausage and bread</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">(because the french, being civilised, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">do not drink without eating something at the same time)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">by then we would be buddies and i was able to ask </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">where i could set up my tent</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">i did the same in Germany with beer</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">and in Holland with cheese</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">(working on the pride of the country)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">i have been running the </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">red star window gallery</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">in hepburn springs,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">the smallest gallery in victoria, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">without fear or favour</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">for almost three years</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">during this time we have shown </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">one artist/crafts person per month</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">it is free</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">Ed the owner of the red star cafe</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">does not charge for the space</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">and i do not charge for </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">the admin, installations, keeping the window presentable</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">and organising the events</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">i thought that for this month (august) </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">i would present my own work</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">a series of works from the early 80s till today </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><b>a journey of bowls</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">'<span style="color: blue;"><b>
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