sweetpea - I need your love and light - left at Cafe Ella, Redfern
Each week, a decorated matchbox with a tiny present hidden inside is left by a girl (and sometimes willing friends) somewhere in her travels. It's a random act of semi-artistic kindness aimed at disrupting someone's day in a tiny but positive way. That's if they dare to pick it up...
I've been wanting to make this particular box for quite a while. I started investigating it last year when I was working on a show, only to be told that few plants had shallow enough roots to be able to fit happily in a matchbox and that maybe alfalfa sprouts were the only way to go. For some reason, I haven't been able to track down seeds for such sprouts but on Friday night, whilst gleefully shopping at the Autumn Finders Keepers markets, I stumbled across sweetpea plants for sale at the Two Thousand stand. It reminded me of tiny plants you spot all round the place and I had to be super gentle carrying it home.
The weather's been particularly beautiful this past week, all blue skies and crisp winds. The less extreme in-between seasons are definitely my favourite, especially because there's less practicality involved in getting dressed.
That said, there's still much fun to be had indoors, with the Double Take new media award show at the Art Gallery of NSW worth the trip. It's quite a diverse show, some parts were utterly hilarious and others subtly beautiful. I'm mildly obsessed with skill-testers also, being one of the ultimate most ridiculous test of masculinity. There's this space above the Capitol Theater which is full of brightly coloured singing machines, filled with stuffed toys. I've recently discovered Tony can win toys on demand, which is excellent. So far we've acquired a sheep dog and some plush bananas. This week will be busy.. MCA Zine fair is coming up this Sunday the 24th! Yay! And I plan to make a collection of my written work.. and a Making It zine with Tony. We hope not to be stapling and folding at 6am on Sunday morning like we did last year.
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