| cute things only - left at clippers cafe, glebe pt road* |
[08 Jun 2009|11:02pm] |
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...
It's an itty bitty knitted finger puppet of a lama that I thought I'd lost somewhere in the horrible mess that is my bedroom. Haline bunnies gave it to me a couple months ago and it made me so happy but still did not prevent it being misplaced. Haline Ly is a good buddy of my friend Matt, a smiley girl and a very talented illustrator. We met last year when I was helping out with some artist talks at their old high school. I like her, she looks like what photos tell me my mother looked at her age and she is so very friendly. We started corresponding only via mail and it's always a nice surprise to hear from her.
A couple weeks back I went to see Three Minute Sydney, which was the opening night of the Creative/Vivid Sydney festival. Matt gave a talk and his time lapse illustration video was incredible. Two thirds of the way through I was super surprised to see a sketch of a matchbox present appear on a massive screen in front of everyone. One of the most beautiful surprises ever.
* new favourite cafe :)
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[27 May 2009|08:41pm] |
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 convinced myself for a total of two seconds that this recent spate of blurry photos was kind of endearing because it gave the boxes a nostalgic feel. I then resolved to take my two broken SLRs to the repair store on my next day off, hopefully next matchbox will be in focus!
It's been a lovely busy week with lots of matchbox activity. This project has legs :) It was nice to meet everyone who came to the zine fair on Sunday - thanks for coming and introducing yourselves. I'm always chuffed to find out that people follow this site. The latest box was actually found at the zine fair and comes from a girl called Riyo who has recently moved from Japan to Australia. The stamp is actually handcut and I was torn as to whether to keep or give away. But only for a little while because Tina Tran, of the Popperbox family who we were sharing a table with, ducked across to buy me one for myself.
The Readers Digest in Australia has just published a little page about me in this months issue. I did the interview a little while back and on Friday found myself sitting across the aisle on the train from a girl who was reading the article! So surreal! Am really thankful for the write up, my grandfather will be so proud. Tony's taken to carrying a copy around in his bag so he can show it to people at any given moment. On the right is the zine I made - a collection of my written work from the past year or so, mainly art/design profiles and features. I have a few copies left, email me at sonya.gee@gmail.com if you want a copy and I'll fill you in with more details.
And for some strange reason, I'm missing the cat that used to hang out in my bedroom in Lewisham. Baxter, he'd just show up out of the blue, wonder into my room when I was busy typing and generally freak me out. I liked him in the end, he was fat, furry and stubborn.
Also! Creative Sydney started this week, a winter festival of free creative activities - talks, shows, events etc at the MCA and the Roxy. And there's been word that they're going to include a few pics from this site in the Salon bar at the MCA!
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| sweetpea - I need your love and light - left at Cafe Ella, Redfern |
[18 May 2009|10:39am] |
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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| well rested - left at Finders Keepers markets, Carriageworks |
[04 May 2009|11:24am] |
It's been a little while because I got sick and spent a few solid weeks in bed and then decided to make up for it all when I was up and well. Last week was such fun! I got to go the Australian fashion week with a work buddy of mine. We went for 'work', meaning he had filed a story for it already and these were spare tickets he had. 'Did you bring a notebook??' he asked on the way over, just in case we needed to look like we were working. I saw the TV show, I'd never heard of them before but the show was loud and colourful and we were seated right across from the buyer for womens wear at David Jones so I spent a good deal of the show sending her silent messages to please please please buy the cosmic jumpsuits and playsuits because they were incredible. We went to the Jayson Brundson show next, quite a contrast as it was was very lovely and elegant, despite all the waiting and pushing. I've just finished watching season 2 of Mad Men (sigh!) and it was very Betty Draper appropriate. More jumpsuits, but this time, man-shirt style, my two favourite things combined!!
The next day I found myself interviewing a recently discovered art collective which I very much admire, the Bababa International, stories to come soon. We had initially planned to meet in a park, near a tennis court but our plans got rained out and it was a cafe instead. And suddenly it was Sunday, my favourite day of the week, the start of my weekend and my only full day with Tony. It's formula is always similar and its effect consistent. Breakfast out, retail therapy, gallery/show, trash tv. This weekend I brought home a new baby, a SHINY SILVER MACBOOK and I am so happy. Silly but it is motivating me to work like nothing else. Check out the blog we're co-producing... And watch lots of Arrested Development.
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| shrooms - left in the hand of a girl just graduated and wearing yellow shoes |
[22 Apr 2009|03:16pm] |
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...
Deviating from my usual cut and paste job of matchbox decoration and getting my hands covered in glue and paint for last week’s show was a very good thing for this project. Because I’ve started dreaming up slightly more ridiculous 3D boxes of late and feeling fairly competent about making them.
And so armed with a big ball of Fuzzy Wuzzy forest green wool (the actual brand of wool, not my own words), some scissors and glue, I made this latest box.
My good buddy Michelle gave me this hand painted toadstool pendant last week. It came simply wrapped in a tissue and I was petrified I’d lose it or accidentally blow my nose on it. It reminded me of these lovely mushrooms I’d seen in Queensland late last year and so the grass box got born.
There was something very Gondry about making it, it was simple yet hilarious to make and I love that underneath it all, which no one will ever see, is a red glittery bottom.
Thanks M!
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| the bids are in, the game is up |
[18 Apr 2009|06:28pm] |
SPOLIER ALERT! If you bid for a box and won and you don't want to see what's inside, hit the little x in the corner now!!
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...
The exhibition was a sell-out yay!! Was stoked that people bid up to $50 for boxes they wanted very badly - the tuxedo and the sprinkles box (my two faves) proving the most popular of the night. The day of the exhibition I made tiny cupcakes with lemon icing and sprinkles to scatter throughout the space for the night. The leftover ones got left in the kitchen in the mad flurry and were devoured by ants, not the nicest thing to discover the next morning. The show was fun, I've been battling this ambiguous illness for the past week so it was a little trying at times to get up (there were nearly tears at the install..) and to stay standing upright at the opening (even with no alcohol allowed for this medicated bunny) but it did and I'm glad.
Many many thanks to Tony and Dan from The Wall for giving me the space for the night and so much encouragement!! Thank you to everyone who came along and appreciated the tiny boxes and congrats to Lee Tran, Myles, Katie, Jess, Brett, Sean and Tony for winning their bids! I'm always overwhelmed by how much people like the project, it definitely makes me want to go on for a very long time. There was some exciting whispers about the upcoming Creative Sydney event in Winter. So curious to know more.
Here are some shaky pictures of the mounted boxes.. taken in a poorly lit hurry as Japanese across the road beckoned, the one on the left is a miniature chocolate box.
And so with the night over, everything got packed in a box and taken home (I snitched a poster with my name on it!) and it was back to bed.
We're moving studios to a bigger and better place! Well it's really just the room across the hall, but it is at least two times bigger, I'm going to get my own window and we're going to have a balcony! Now I have to clean up the millions of hundreds and thousands I've dropped on the floor. Enjoy your weekends.
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| Bid-a-box this week at the Wall! |
[13 Apr 2009|07:04pm] |
This is arguably one of the most ridiculous boxes I've ever made. It took all of about a minute and I have since started covering everything in hundreds and thousands, bobby pins, my usb stick.. Last night I got to work covering a box in a yellow ruffled shirt that used to belong to a finger puppet. I've been busy making ten limited edition boxes because I have a show coming up this Wednesday at The Wall, World Bar, Kings Cross.
I've been wanting to do this particular show for ages and thankfully my boyfriend extraordinaire Tony Curran could hook me up with a space! Our studio is currently littered with matchsticks, matchboxes and errant hundreds and thousands. There was a minor disaster on Friday night, when I mistook the white oil paint for white acrylic... and I didn't realise until I'd painted my entire left hand with it because I thought it would be funny. It wasn't when it didn't come off, I looked like Mickey Mouse and had to have my hand scrubbed by metho by a certain-someone who kept saying 'why did you paint your hand with oil paint???' like I knew what I was doing. Pffft! Tonight we mount boxes into tiny frames!
Anyway! It's going to be a silent auction, so if you like it, you don't have to find it, you can bid on it, only catch is, you're not allowed to know what's inside.
Hope you can make it along!
Many thanks to Kluster, Lost at E Minor and Making It for their love!
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p.s I got interviewed for the Readers Digest this week, am stoked that people keep finding this blog and like it!
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| mini matchbox! |
[06 Apr 2009|10:53am] |
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...
It's been a rough couple of weeks and over the weekend, I had this fairly devastating realisation that I had either forgotten or misplaced the things that I enjoy doing, the things that make me happy and excited. So I took myself off to the markets and found myself nesting once again, in an attempt to make my newest home feel like my home. It's silly but I assumed that once you move, the new place automatically becomes your home but have since realised that more effort is needed that the physical moving of stuff (my most favourite leather jacket going missing in the moving process did not contribute to happy feelings of home!).
So I acquired a teapot with little mary janes, which will surely help the settling in process. At the end of the day, after work and all of the things I have to do, I just want my life to be comfortable and a little bit beautiful. And so today I plan to go in search of a cake tin to make a coconut cake I've been talking about for ages, pick up a small bunch of preferably pink flowers and fill in all the missing Beatles catalogue on my iPod. The Beatles is a default for whenever I'm feeling melancholic, especially Rubber Soul. And I hope to stay in search for happy colourful silly things...
I'm also on twitter like the rest of the world! Sometimes I have to twitter for work and I get mega paranoid that I'm going to tweet something dumb under the news tweet. Like I want a fingerbun or something! So far I've managed to tweet a news headline to my followers, but I guess the other way around doesn't matter so much. It just made me look like I was mad into the G20 or something.
** Thank you again to Nici at Blackbird Corner for sending me this little bird pin! She's on twitter too!
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| show's over - left on a window sill of a pub, abercrombie st, chippendale |
[29 Mar 2009|10:19pm] |
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...
If this project has taught me anything, it's that there is an abundance of ridiculous stationary out there. These little clip men look like they'd glow in the dark, I'm yet to check!
It's been quite a week and by Friday I'd shriveled up in the corner of the gallery that I was sitting, getting sick after working 10 days straight. It wasn't so terrible, I got a few days rest and was taken very good care of.
This week I got a new role at work that I'm super stoked about!! I start in two days and I've got that very familiar excited/terrified-I-may-be-crap feeling in my stomach. Fingers crossed everything will be alright. I also opened my first solo show, which was one of the best nights ever. The gallery itself was inside a historic house in the suburbs where I grew up. It was very stately and made setting up and gallery sitting feel pretty grand. My bestest friend Tony Curran curated and made my work look and feel so clean yet shiny and I was stoked to work with him again. After much debate, his design for my exhibition worked and I couldn't have been happier. In addition to his technical support, he also doubled (tripled?? quadrupled!) as a photographer, speech minder and wardrobe assistant on the night. Thank you Tony, I couldn't have done it without you.
The highlight of the night was having Federal MP and ex-journo hero Maxine McKew show up and open my show. She is one classy, charming, smiley lady. And she knew stuff about me! Awesome. In the end, I can't believe I got paid to make that project. I was so happy with how it turned out! I think it may have been one of the best things I've ever made. And I got to meet two high school girls who read this blog who made it along on the night. It was lovely to meet you.
The show's still on and will be open Wed-Thur (1-2 April) from 11-4pm at Brush Farm House, 19 Lawson street, Eastwood. More pics and reviews here!
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| happy birthday mama bear |
[20 Mar 2009|03:52pm] |
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...
There's nothing like a bit of competition to motivate! I went to check out the Vanishing Point gallery in Newtown today with the boy, and the Matchbox Projects were showing. I'd heard of them before and people often confuse this project with theirs, which is more of a travelling capsule collections type show. I was busy sticky-beaking at their specially made matchboxes (apparently you can get them from Japan but have to order 10,000 at a time! whoa, I think I'm sticking to cut and paste!) when the boy asked whether they'd heard about the other matchbox project. They had and suddenly it was excitement all round. Our projects are very different so it's not really competition but they've got a new concept coming up, where they're asking people to put stuff in matchboxes and submit them for a collection of theirs.
One of the twins behind the project was describing how they had to fit inside the parameters of the box, how the box had to close and giving me many suggestions. And I had to laugh because that exact creative predicament has been following me around every week now for about 2 years!
This little gift comes from the Blackbird Corner again, so generous ladies! You make my work easy!! This one will be given though, as soon as I saw it I knew exactly who it belonged to. It's Mama bear's birthday on Sunday and she used to have a doll just like this (with an accompanying husband boy doll) in our house when I was growing up. Plus she's more into mobile accessorising than I am!
I got written up in Coolhunting.com today! Which was a very nice way to start the morning, especially cos I had the day off.
Next week's a big week for me, I'm having my first solo exhibition. I'm excited but will be a little terrified also until it opens. This time it's not the Matchbox project but a combined local history and photographic project I've been working on over the past few months. A very gentle work that seeks to explore on a very personal level, what it means to belong to a physical place. It's all about suburban espionage and it was great fun making. I got the photos back today and I'm stoked! If you're in the area please come along, ex journo and now Federal MP Maxine McKew is opening it! I might just try and hug her..
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| mega laziness continues |
[23 Feb 2009|07:36pm] |
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 seem to be quite good at packing and photographing matchboxes but rather terrible at leaving them around the place of late. I think it's because I generally go to the same places and forget a bit. But if you have any suggestions about dispersion or distribution, I'd be keen to hear them! I currently have about 3 or 4 packed boxes in my purse. Just waiting....
This itty bitty pirate puzzle comes from Blackbird Corner, so thank you again N!
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| love and donations |
[18 Feb 2009|11:41am] |
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...
On Valentines Day there were loud protests all around the place from people who claimed they didn't 'do' the hallmark holiday. I just wanted to give them all a chocolate and tell them that everything was going to be okay.
A week before, there was a knock at the door and I left my apple pie to find a small package with large curvy handwriting on the front. My friend Anna who I met at uni had made me a box! Yay!! Ever the perfectionist, she had waited about a year until she found the right thing. I wrote saying thank you and she replied, saying she liked that it had eyes. I have some really great memories of doing little things with Anna, like listening to shells she brought back from overseas and eating jelly beans in Hyde Park.. after she saved me all the colours that I liked (red and white). Thank you Anna!
I've been writing a bit for Lost at E Minor, which has been great fun cos I can write about anything really, like this gnome repository I found near my home. It's my last week at my house, I'm moving on the weekend so have said goodbye to the black neighbourhood cat that likes to wander uninvited into my bedroom and even left a fresh gnome for the local collector. But I'm mega excited about the move, I'm going to have internet access again! YAY!
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| treasure trove |
[09 Feb 2009|05:49pm] |
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...
My most favourite stockist of small things sent me a very fat package last week, bringing lots of tiny pieces of joy to what had been a very tiring week. These little erasers made me so happy and I want to keep them all, especially the turtle one! And thankfully two of both the gingerbread and ice cream cone erasers arrived so I won't feel so awful about keeping those. Many thanks to Nici at Blackbird Corner!
It's back to work tomorrow, I'm working in the newsroom full time for a few weeks. I love it except for the early starts, leaving home before 6am never gets easier.
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| itty bitty sugarary flowers |
[01 Feb 2009|05:34pm] |
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 was stoked to find that Redheads had released yet another round of special matchboxes, celebrating an anniversary of some sort. They are ten times cuter than the ones they had last year - I love them!! They're sleeker and need no extra decoration... sometimes I get lazy.
Today I was informed that a month-iversary was not the same as an anniversary. I asked whether I should take the cupcakes back then? But it was all too late.
Oh dear, in the flurry of this afternoon, the cupcake buying and haircutting, the photographing, reading and napping I didn't resize the picture right. But I kind of like it gigantic!
Happy Sunday.
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| fun fairs and failed drop offs - left in the park outside bill & george studios, redfern |
[20 Jan 2009|07:34pm] |
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 accidentally fell asleep in a park on New Years Eve, stargazing had made me weary and I awoke slowly, disorientated by my surroundings. A red headed boy giggled quietly as he dangled a bouquet of multicoloured balloons over my head. They bobbed up and down and into each other and in the distance, I could make out someone with a very deep voice shouting ‘THREE LEGGED RACES!!’ Was I at a fair?
I feel similarly woozy at the moment, a happy sort of disorientation, I’ve been overseas for a week and am trying to get my bearings again. My body still feels like a log which I hope to fix today, I have to be at work very early tomorrow morning to help cover the Obama inauguration yay! Apparently in the States they’re making Barocky Road ice cream. I want.
I've been terrible and haven't dropped a box in 3 weeks! Determined to fix the problem four times over this week.
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| peanuts - left on a train headed towards Chatswood |
[09 Jan 2009|04:33pm] |
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...
It was one of those ridiculous items that I had to own immediately. The movie and the creme brulee choc top had to wait because I had spied a glass vase of 3-D peanut erasers on the counter of a fancy gift store. $1 later it was in my pocket and I could get on with my evening.
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| ssshh.. they're sleeping - the matchbox projects meets the box doodle project |
[03 Jan 2009|12:40pm] |
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...
After spending new years eve picnicking in a park and new years day watching Entourage after Entourage episode, digging into fish and chips and hanging out at the movies we decided it was time to stop consuming and start making. And so armed with some paint, ink and a matchbox I set out to make my contribution to the very lovely box doodle project. A little short of supplies (a large bread knife failed in the place of scissors and the piece of black thread I found on the floor was too short), it turned out to be very basic. But I like it, they're resting.
Happy new year.
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| happy sugary sweet things - accidentally abandoned somewhere on NYE |
[29 Dec 2008|05:55pm] |
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...
My youngest brother ran to greet me when I arrived back at my parent's house on Christmas Eve before giving me what turned out to be one of many bear hugs of the night. It was nice to go home, there was food aplenty, an oversized Christmas tree and my furry red stocking already laid out. There were scones with jam and fat blobs of cream for breakfast the next day I got given a three tiered box of chocolates in a pale pink box, complete with gold embossing. It was from France, amazing and still two and a quarter levels full.
On Christmas Day I tore off layers of blue and red cellophane (remnants of an earlier shark attack work) to unveil a matchbox painting (well actually 4 paintings stuck together to make one very nice image) that my boyfriend made me. I especially loved the extra match striking detail on the side of the frame. The picture itself was of a matchbox the boy and I have tried to photograph repeatedly but to no avail - smoke sneaking out of a matchbox. Best present ever!
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| little bird - given to Miss Cassandra, welcome home! |
[22 Dec 2008|10:18pm] |
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...
Merry Christmas little birds. I hope no one gets trampled in the last minute rush.
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| good things come in (very) small packages |
[16 Dec 2008|12:45pm] |
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...
This week I’m not leaving a box, mainly because I left close to 100 last week. The group exhibition I’m in is now open and last week was spent installing, preparing and recovering from the opening. For two days it seemed entirely normal to be doing things like riding in truck with a life-sized animatronic horse in the back and frantically using bolt cutters in an attempt to save 4 boys from the 120kg kaleidoscope mirror installation they were supporting after it spontaneously snapped free from an overhead beam. They were panting, shaking, sweating and yelling at each other and were none too pleased when I asked sheepishly, ‘hey guys, so which one is the spanner?’
My own work was fairly straightforward to install, maybe just a little time consuming because of its size. Despite this, I was informed by the curator and his architect friend a good two or three hours into sticky taping my very small and individually mounted photos to the wall, that my work was in fact wonky. After a minor foot-stomping session, it was corrected and this was my displayed work, which made it from bedroom floor all the way to the gallery wall:
I also hid boxes all round the gallery, no place to high or low to get to. And they all got found by night’s end. Hurrah!
Many thanks to Benny for saving my butt one minute after the show opened with his shiny black Macbook so that this blog could be seen! And grumbles to the person (there was only one) who took to checking their email on it at the end of the night.
The week just gone was also a mailbox bonanza. My inbox told me that this project has been featured on ffffound!, which my uber talented designer brother Derrick informs me is the site for graphic designers. So cool!! I spent most of Sunday trawling through their incredible bank of shiny shiny images. And then Kluster issue 5 the loves issue came out too! My real mailbox brought me presents! Jay Dee, who once made a matchbox for this site, sent me these for Christmas, which were incredible and were applauded individually:
The night before, my birthday present finally arrived all the way from New York, some 4 months later and much to my boyfriend’s relief over what we thought was a phantom present. The latest issue of McSweeny’s Quarterly! And inside, at the bottom of each page, there were pictures of matchbox labels from Eastern Europe.
And then it was off to the radio station to do an interview about the show with the curator Tony Curran, way too early on a Sunday morning. He spoke quite seriously in a very low voice and I giggled a little more than I would have liked.
Thank you to everyone who came to the show!! It’s open until mid January at TAP gallery, 278 Palmer st, Darlinghurst.
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