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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
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9:17a - let's hear it for the boy(s) - part 1/3 - left in a photocopier! Sydney Uni copy room*
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 week just past was an especially lucky one and I got not one but three matchboxes back from 3 very creative boys with very different sensibilities...
Tony (of legoman matchbox fame) promised to finish his box before he went overseas to do some art in Scotland. And surely the night before he left, the boy came good.
'It's very silly,' he'd warned me and I laughed because although packing presents in matchboxes and strategically abandoning them is a serious pursuit of mine, it's hardly sensible. The box he handed back was encrusted with play crystals, nubbly and a giggle to touch. As I slid the drawer open I found a box of matchsticks looking at me. Big eyes, small eyes - googly eyes. I stared back at them for a good while - I couldn't actually think of what to say so I just grinned instead. 'Googly eyes are heaps cool!' he said by way of explanation and later I find a t-shirt of his that proclaims just that. Only the googly eyes had come unstuck. Sad.
And although I would have never expected a box of matches with eyes, I wasn't entirely surprised. This from a boy who remixes Bindi Irwin tracks (and will drop it along with the Powerpuff girl theme song in DJ sets..) and gets so close to paintings at art galleries that I worry that he's going to fall in - or at the very least get told off by a mean looking gallery attendant.
And because every kiddie wins a prize, Tony got a matchbox with a small-ish kilt pin in it. Happy art-making in Scotland T!
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* Super excited about making one-off mini mags for friends!
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