Thyrsis

"To any other form one's eyes are blind."
- Jean de la Fontaine,
from Thyrsis and Amaranth
(Book VIII.—No. 13)

(1912) by John Havard Thomas, National Gallery of Victoria

Birds in space

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work.
It is pure joy that I offer you.
Look at my sculptures until you see them.
Those closest to God have seen them.

L'oiseau dans l'espace [Bird in space] c.1931-1936 by Constantin Brancusi
National Gallery of Australia

A group of seven pears (detail)

“All men should have a drop of treason in their veins,
if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.”
- Rebecca West

'Pear – version number 2 (A group of seven pears)' 1973, by George Baldessin
National Gallery of Australia

Spirit of the Community

I am Ethos
Though i do not speak with words
I speak to you in other ways

I say to you that
I am the spirit of this place
and it's people

I am the original spirit
and the spirit of now

I rise from the earth
and reach for the sun

I bring together
the old and the new

In me there is
no violence or war
only peace and reconciliation

I am the love,
peace and beauty
of this place

I give you these things
every day and always.

Ethos by Tom Bass
Civic Square, Canberra

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“Consummatum est”

I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.
- George Bennard,
'The Old Rugged Cross'

The Deposition by Guy Boyd
Mercy Lecture Theatre
Australian Catholic University
Fitzroy

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eye spy

“But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

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colour saturation

Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops
When the summer shower is through
So a voice within me keeps repeating
you, you, you…
- Cole Porter "Night And Day"

photo taken at Dagmar Rousset

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heavy reading

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences
what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Angel of Commerce

'Transportation' by Tom Bass (1916-2010)
H.C. Sleigh Building, Queen Street, Melbourne, Vic

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Wind Ball (2009)

stained cypress by Robert Bridgewater at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne.

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