This event will be at 2 to 3pm on the 28th of July 2025, at 1594 Germantown Road REDBANKS South Australia. If you are able to get there, feel free to contact me and I’ll keep a look out for you!
The image above shows a small section of my Art Installation, a very small part of it. But in this section are perhaps thirty or more items of the Redbanks RUST & FOUND Art Intallation, with the entire Installation having more than 700 individual items on display!
The intention with this brief display is to guage interest in it, and to showcase the variety of interesting concepts it touches on. There are definitely recycling aspects, with many of the items on display thrown away as rubbish, and headed for the dump.
To me though, every item can tell as story, about us, about how we feel about our world, and about the commnity we live it. There are concepts of road safety there as well, and the ideas around history too.
But is it Art though? I say yes, and I’d love to hear what other people think about that!
Yesterday I did a little bit of work on the Redbanks RUST & FOUND Art Installation, in m role as the Curator of this Installation. And I was so happy when I went and checked out how one of the adjustments I made to a part of the Installation survived overnight!
I’m learning more about the good and bad things about having an Art Installation that is out in the open, exposed to weather, as well as the various creatures outside! The best thing is that anyone who wishes to view this Art Installation can do so anytime they wish to! They’ll miss out on learning more about it, in my absence of course, but they can make up their own ideas and opinions on what they see.
But the pariticular part I’m referring to is the Exercise bike, an old and well rusted one that has pride of place close to the wire fence which is also a part of the Installation, along with the great many other objects on display.
Any way, I had what I hoped may be a great idea regarding the placement of one particular item that is on display, a quite popular item, as it has turned out, and I moved that item to be displayed in an amusing way, and I love it! Being an Art Installation Curator isn’t all collecting, cleaning, and other boring aspects, there can be joy there too, particularly if you can have a bit of fun with what you’re doing!
So the image below shows what I’ve done, I hope it gives you a bit of a smile at the very least!
I call this piece ‘Chickie Chook Goes For A Ride’, and I love the amusing incongruity of it! I hope other viewers will love that too! Chickie Chook has been placed out in a variety of different sections of this Art Installation, and wherever she is, she looks like she loves being there (except for when the nasty wind has blown here over and too far away to be seen as a part of the Installation).
I’ve been thinking of producing a children’s book featuring Chickie Chook one day, and this little exercise bike adventure may well feature in that book, or perhaps series of books …
If you have any thoughts about this, please, leave a comment, we can discuss it all further, if you want to!
This is something I know so well – without inspiration, the well of creativity is dry, and nothing gets written. And what is a writer without words being written? A sad creature, that’s what.
But when the inspiration comes, the words come too, and wonderful things can come of it. Inspiration can be a mysterious thing – where does it come from? Is it ‘out there’ floating around in the winds, until it crash lands in your brain, ideas come, and yes, words are written!
I’m being inspired at the moment by my current obsession. This is a thing I’ve named, The Redbanks RUST & FOUND Art Installation. It’s a big thing, with many different aspects to what it will become, but the basis of it is the finding of rusty things which I put up on our rusty gate and frond fence at our place.
There are over 500 different rusty and/or found items there on display now, and the front fence, all 60 os so metres of it, has lots of different things there. And there are a few larger objects there as well, just our side of the front fence, where people taking a look can easily see them!
Some of the things in this Art Installation were found while going for walks, others were found when looking around my place outside. The piece below is one such ‘find’ our old front tap, which was replaced with piping that will never rust, because it’s made of PVC, a form of plastic.
So I ‘found’ that object the other day, and immediately decided it must become a part of this Art Installation! And so it is, right next to the rusty old gate that began this whole project! There are a few other metal objects there as well, found ones, and all along that big gate are many more.
I was inspired by that tap earlier today, and I wrote a poem, a brand new poem, which may be in the non fiction book I plan to write, and have launched perhaps in July next year. I’ve never written a non fiction piece as big as this one will be, but with the given time period, I reckon I can manage it!
Anyway, here is that poem, I hope you like it!
CREATIVE FLOW The flow when it’s there is a wondrous thing Thoughts to written down words and more – Ideas mount up, fuse together, split apart Merge, diverge, become greater than anything Ever before, until l have enough, my cup full and it stops – real world thoughts return, dreary and mundane … but that creative flow Captured in writing, shaped and shining, That will remain, reminding me of my other self – The one who’s spirit is healed and strengthened By the creative flow that washes over me Every now and then, that makes me whole! The flow when it’s there is a wonderful thing Thoughts to written down words and more – Ideas mount up, fuse together, split apart Merge, diverge, become greater than anything Ever before, until l have enough, my cup full And real world thoughts take over again Dreary and mundane, but that creative flow Captured in writing, shaped and shining, That will remain, reminding me of my other self – The one who’s spirit is healed and strengthened By the creative flow that washes over me Every now and then, and makes me whole!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 
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