Im In A Qundry

I'm in a situation on Facebook where some one who has been openly hostile towards me wants to be my friend. Ive known this person for over 45 years. I made the decision 6 months ago not to spend time with her because she drains my energy.


6.44pm after my art therapy session tonight exploring the relationship, Ive concluded that its ok not to accept her as a friend and the reason is her unfriendly behavior towards me. Obvious now, cloudy before. Here is the collage I did while talking this out. Noted is the word threshold.

25/9/2009, thanks to Moo for giving me hurry up for the image. xxxx4moo

Many Happy Returns

This is a painting about a saying my Nanna used to put on to my birthday and Christmas cards as a kid. I think the image of the genies says that best.

Botanicals Again

Some times I get so focused on technology, I just need to go to the botanical gardens for a nature balancer. Thinking the pinky one has potential for framing.

Megapixels

Due to untechnology by me Im so sad to say that some of the best shots Ive taken this year were shot on the lowest megapixels possible. I actually cried. This is one of them.

My Babies

Ive realised since Annies Exhibition that I need to have my babies around me (my art). I always dreamed of having my new appartment draped in lush and rich wall hangings in winter. My photos and paintings during the other seasons. Ive been here now for 18 months and I do have some things on display but no where near what I could display. Today I picked up my first peice from framing and it looks really cheery. It is actally earmarked for someone and she will have it one day when she visits me. In the mean time Ive had an Idea. When I go to Katherine in March next year for my nephews birthday party I am going to see if I can hold my first exhibition at the same time. My Art Therapist believes Im ready to exhibit. Ill take her word for it. Actually, I might ask her to come with me. On second thoughts I am going to ask my sister and neice to exhibit with me.

I Dream Of Spring

On the first day of spring,
my inward breath gives way
to a fragrant sigh.

Highest Creativity

" There is this Spirit, this Life Energy inside us, that is the power for life and for love. This and this alone can promote the True Healing, healing from within. The best way to actuate our Life Energy, our Healing power within, our love, is through acts of the Highest Creativity." John Diamond. M.D.

A red bird symbolises the love outside me. The silver web symbolises my love. The bird has landed and got its feet caught in the web and lifted it flying off into the sky.

A snap shot from childhood: Mum used to thread fresh meat on to string and attach streamers to it. When the Hawks came to scavenge they would pick the meat up in their beaks and fly away with the streamers flapping. These entertainments were what made school holidays special.

Another snap shot: 21/7/1969, Dad picks us girls up from school and takes us home so we can sit around the table and listen to the radio broadcasting mans first steps on the moon. I remember sitting there recording the broadcast on my tape machine and knowing it was something that should be saved for the future. I was 8. There were fears around, that when the first contact with moon happened that the world would end. ....I had that tape for many years, but it got lost along the way. How valuable would that have been for our family history now? The noises and sounds of that day, especially my mums voice - priceless.

Wake In Fright

This movie was saved from destruction in Pittsburgh by an archivist and has been remastered. It tells the story of a school teacher in a remote town c 1960s. Reminded me of life in the early days of Katherine and I was shaking when I walked out of there. Just wondering what kind of dreams I will have tonight. Brutal Realism are words that describe it.

Pic taken by my cobbers Canon G10, down town Tuggeranong.

Cat Looks At The King

Todays Painting.

Old Sayings

Aileen (Art Therapist) and I had session today. Before she comes I put a an old jar filled with water on the table for the water colours I use. We had so much stuff on the table today she said " we need water for the painting" I picked up the jar and said "Whats this - a bowl of Goldfish?" She cracked up laughing because she had never heard that one before. Its been in our family for years and is always said when someone is looking for something that is in an obvious place, usually right in front of their face.

Another one my cousin always says when you don't hear what he says " what - your ears painted on?"

My mums way of saying things aren't so bad. "Well its better that getting poked in the eye with a forked stick"

When someone is talking too much you ask them have they been injected with a gramophone needle.

When you want someone to smile you say "Hows your laughing gear".