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  • New Hat!

    New Hat!

    I got a new hat from the hippie store downtown, Main Street, Saint Kilda. It’s wild down there, it’s a hotspot for pretty much anyone, particularly the unkept, barefoot, nicotine junkies. It’s a good place, Main Street Saint Kilda. Anyway, I bought the hat, which I like, because it’s comfortable, keeps the sun from the…

  • A Room of One’s Own

    A Room of One’s Own

    ‘A woman must have money and a room of one’s own if she is to write fiction,’ Virginia Woolf writes in A Room of One’s Own. I am reading this book, in my own room, with my own money–living with the dread of that, ashamed to say, because I would rather live in a van…

  • Another Poem

    Another Poem

    maybe the mind is right maybe those thoughts are real need to be acted on by the body maybe the body is right maybe you can synch them up good to be or not to be is like a maybe but to be or to may-be maybe is between maybe is the question mark between…

  • A poem

    A poem

    There are two tubs of paint beside me on the desk I bought them yesterday and they didn’t last long now I can hear cars out the window and some kind of machine cutting concrete it is Monday and there is a sense that I have after viewing outside and now hearing it this morning…

  • Intuition: The Creative Impulse

    Intuition: The Creative Impulse

    What is it? Where is it? And how do you learn to trust it? Catchy title eh? This morning I would like to write about intuition; I feel as though it’s something I’ve been cultivating for years, creatively, but that I struggle to act on in my life. Nowadays my creative life is my life…

  • Meditations on Mermaids

    Meditations on Mermaids

    Part One, Again. I had a dream last night that I was in a surfing competition, in a heat, and I paddled out too far and didn’t catch any waves — I knew that if I’d stayed on the inside I would have caught some good waves and surfed them well. I have these dreams…

  • Not what do I want; but what do I have

    Not what do I want; but what do I have

    & some other thoughts I woke up to the sound of the sweetest birds, this morning, their high pitched noises outside the window behind the blind. I looked down to check the time on my phone: 6 am. And I had this thought, as if interpreting those birds: not what do i want, but what…

  • What Makes a Great Artist Part Two

    What Makes a Great Artist Part Two

    On Kiki Smith’s ‘Memory’ in Hydra in 2019 and other thoughts– Bending time and space; like a border line, stretching it out so there is a large circular bend in the line and the straightness from before seems absurd. In the opening pages of a book I bought reads ‘Greek identity is something that resides…

  • What makes a great artist? (I)

    What makes a great artist? (I)

    Photo above of Jean-Michel and John Lurie. What makes a great artist part one; what is great art and who makes it? I am reading John Lurie’s History of Bones and he is describing a dinner party with some of the New York heavyweights. John Lurie, for those new to the name, is an artist,…

  • “What does it mean to truly satisfy one’s soul?”

    “What does it mean to truly satisfy one’s soul?”

    This title is an anonymous referenced quote in a book I own called “Love & Free” by a Japanese guy called Ayumu Takahashi. I bought the book about seven years ago when I was visiting Japan as a young tourist. The question, from the book, continues: “That is, to know what you really want to…