Courtesy of Chamber Made and the Estate of Margaret Cameron.
After a 6-year hiatus, I’m re-vivifying the sound/s/words* blog to document the little residency I’m very grateful to be currently undertaking.
I am at Bobbinarring Point/Point Leo on the Mornington Peninsula, the land of the Boonwurrung Balag clan, courtesy of the Orange House by the Sea Residency offered by Chamber Made and the late writer/director Margaret Cameron and her family. The residency is designed for a mid-career artist giving them time to reflect on their practice and conduct creative research without the pressure of a direct outcome.
While I am here, by the seaside, I’m taking time out from a year of rewardingly large projects and near obsessive grant writing to reflect on some things that have always troubled me in my practice: how does text, written and spoken operate in my work; and why, at 53, am I still so conflicted and confronted by the sound of my own voice.
I’ll get back to you on the answers to those…. In the meantime, I’ve been enjoying acquainting myself with my macro lens and exploring the wonders of the ever rewritten shoreline.
* I have a terrible habit of reserving blog domain names and then spending too much time deciding on a template and by then I’ve run out of time to make content, so I’m forcing myself to use what I’ve got in some kind of digital thriftiness.
I acknowledge the tradition custodians of the land on which I am currently residing, the Boonwurrung Balag clan of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respect to elders past, present and those to come and offer my sincere gratitude to be able to experience the wonder of their country. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
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