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Recently I attended a Fringe performance in Gawler South Australia at the Prince Albert Hotel, and even though I had to leave early, I very much enjoyed the part of the act I saw, and I’m told the rest of it was funny too.
So, I’m glad I was able to see Marc Ryan and the second comedian, and super thrilled to have been able to step up in the stage with them and do a short piece of my own stand up comedian act!
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When I was at school and was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, Art Installation Curator was certainly not a career would have professed to be interested in, that’s for sure!
If someone had suggested it as a possibility, I would have had no idea of what it was! And to be honest, up until recently I’d never heard of such a thing, and would never have thought it might be a thing I may do.
But life does odd things at times, and here I am, the Curator of the Redbanks Rust and Found Art Installation! It may be a little visited site, this Art Installation, but there is certainly much traffic driving past it every day. And if I were to actually promote it and have a sign up indicating what it is that traffic is driving past, that may assist in visitor numbers …
So yes, I’m enjoying the gatherng of interesting (to me anyway!) items and then thinking about them, and putting them on display!
The title of Art Installation Curator feels so much like my kind of thing now, and remembering my love of collecting unicorns, perhaps this is actually something in my DNA. I certainly remember when we had to sell off my father’s things from his big shed attached to his stables, when he had to move to an aged care facility.
He had things going back a long way back in time … and my mother had her own issues regarding keeping things too as my brother and I discovered when we had to organize all of her items that made up her estate when she passed away earlier this year. My mother’s items were kept in a much neater way than my father’s items had been, but there were still many old items in her cupboards and drawers that had to be disposed of, or kept as appropriate in the clearing out of her things, from her home.
So with my parents being fond of keeping things, is it any wonder I’m so much enjoying the finding and keeping of these various metal things, most of which are iron and rusty?! I’m not hiding my interest (or was that obsession?), with all of the items on display at this Art Installation!
With more than 700 individual items as a part of this display, I’m hardly in a position to criticize anyone who likes to hold onto things from their past, am I? I would actually love to have these items counted to find how close I am to the correct number.
There may be a way of having students come along and do this for me. I’ll look into that after this Festive season is over, and students are back at their relevants schools.I am far more of a words kind of person, rather than a numbers person!
So that will take some time before it will happen, but you can bet my attention will continue to be snared by rusty treasures! Curator, collector, crazy? Maybe all three! But I’m enjoying myself, and that’s important in life, to do the things you enjoy doing!
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Waiting for what? That’s what I need to find out, then once I work it out, it will happen. the world the whole wide world is out there, waiting for me to get moving, and bring my ‘Thing’ out, where they can see it, do it, experience it, enjoy it, then tell everyone they know about it!
Well that’s a brief look at what my most recent plan is, or the biggest one of them anyway. I have lots of plans, if you include brief thoughts that seem to me to be good things to have a go at doing, plans.
Oh, I know that’s not a plan, it’s something much smaller than a plan, and less worthy. Plans are big, and they have bold letters, and paragraphs. Sometimes they might have numbers and graphs in them, and quotes from worthy people,
Plans set things out in ways that may seem logical, and come to possible conclusions even before the plan is even enacted, Wow!
Hovering plans like I’m on about here may have some of those things, but mine rarely have numbers or graphs, I’m more of an ideas person, working with words, not numbers. Numbers and I have never been Besties.
I can do simple math, but if I’d need a calculator to get the math done, I’m just not interested. I can write far better than I can calculate, I’ve always been that way, and probably always will be. At my age, more than half way through my likely lifetime, I’ll keep on with my plans that don’t need numbers done.
I took this photo this morning, because it looked like an owl, and I like owls. And I have a fascination in seeing living things in inanimate things.
See that photograph there, I took that photo not only because I like such things, but I also had a kind of nano plan that I may use the photo in something else, something bigger than just one slightly quirky photo.
I don’t know anything much more about that little mini plan, but it could quite likely end up in a book, with other such photos, and some words written by me, and possibly with quotes from others who’ve looked at and thought about things like I’m thinking about now.
I love the way the ideas come out of my head and onto the page as I write about them like this. And just because I had no idea about putting that photo in this article when I started, I that doesn’t matter, because, well it’s interesting isn’t it, looking at the thought practises of others? I think it is anyway, and with luck, you think so too!
Going back to how this started, the biggest plan I have at the moment is the one I’ve been working on for well over a year now, the one that possible will also be with me for the rest of my lifetime, and that is the Redbanks Rust & Found Art Installation.
I created this from bits of rusty and/or metal things, then put them on the fence of our place (asking my husband whether he minded, of course). He didn’t mind so I went on putting things on our fence, until there were, by my reckoning, over 400 individual items on the fence. Oops that’s a number, so obviously I can do numbers if they’re relevant to what I’m thinking a lot about!
So once I had that number of different things, I was thinking about what I was doing, and some thoughts became ideas, then some of those ideas solidified into contexts, and it was obvious I’d taken a step up from creating and had begun actually curating this thing. That’s when I named what I was doing, and now, there are (look out, a bigger number coming) now there are around 700 individual items on display at this Art Installation.
And I’m even thinking of getting students involved and having them actually count how many things there are, and separate the number into the types of things that are there. There are vehicle related, food preparation related, farming related, tools related, and probably a ‘what the heck is that’ related section as well.
This thing is a much bigger thing that the owl-looking photo, and I am proud of that fact!
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