Everyone was enjoying themselves today at this festival that brings together communities right across the Cape York region. We saw performers from Aurukun, Seisi and Lockhart River. A great day.
Well, it finally happened. A week ago, I opened up an online shop to sell the cards I’ve been making.
If you’d like to have a browse, you’ll find it over here at Etsy in CardsByLynnAU.
Here’s a sample. If you see something you like, custom made orders are available on the site.
Many of Melaka’s buildings are decorated in some way, shape or form. This laneway with whitewashed walls, discovered on an early evening walk, is the perfect location for these painted murals.
This morning’s street art hunt was a hot one. As I write thunder is making its presence felt, so we’re hoping for a drop in temperature of a degree or two this evening.
Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic’s mural art is the most distinctive of the street art in and around Georgetown on Penang Island. The Boatman in the photos below is by Julia Volchkova.
From the 101 Lost Kittens Project, some feline art action.
The steel cartoon art is seemingly everywhere you turn. Today’s samples include a nod to Jimmy Choo who apparently started his interest in shoes in his early years in Penang. Works by Baba Chuah, Tang Mun Kian and Reggie Lee.
I’ve been slowly building up a stock of blank white greeting cards using a mix of linocut prints, cut out drawings, pen and coloured pencil.
By the end of this month, I hope to have a number of card sets (3 per pack) available online for purchase. It will be a test run, and given the amount of time it takes to make them, I’m expecting multiple short runs over time.
In the meantime, we’re off to Malaysia for two weeks, so where there’s wifi there will be daily posts and pics of our travels.
A wander around the Institute’s permanent collection followed the visit to the Martin Luther exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Here are some of my favourites.
The hanging sculpture is Ahab by Alexander Calder (1953). If anyone knows what the piece on the wall is, I’d be grateful to hear from you.
I’m a sucker for ancient Chinese horses. Here’s Celestial Horse, a 1st century creation from the Eastern Han dynasty.
This is Duluth Living Room created by John S Bradstreet in 1906.
Who doesn’t enjoy anything by Chuck Close? This is Frank (1969).
In the gallery of works by artists from Minnesota is this painting by Julius Holm. Tornado over Saint Paul. (1893)
The Minneapolis Institute of Art is hosting the exhibition Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation, marking 500 years since the religious Reformation in Europe led by Martin Luther. The exhibits included scriptures and posters, paintings, objects, textiles and objects relating to Luther’s life.
This reconstructed space includes furniture from “The Luther Room” in Wittenburg.
Luther delivered his last sermon from this pulpit on 15 February 1546. The object itself dates back to 1518.
As well as items specific to Luther and his work, are contemporary items with which he would have been familiar. This is a hood worn by a plague doctor. The beak was usually “filled with herbs or sponges soaked with fragrant oils to ward off the putrid “miasma” thought to carry disease.
We visited on Wednesday 9 November, just after listening on the radio to Hillary Clinton’s concession speech. This notice on the consultation process with interfaith advisors was seemingly prescient.
“While the religious arguments of the 1500s may seem distant, present-day rhetoric around religion remains dangerously divisive. Perceiving those with different beliefs as the “other” as Luther wrote of Jews and Muslims, still happens and negatively impacts the lives of our neighbours and community members.
Through honest and respectful dialogue, our advisors are working toward a more inclusive society, and believe that exhibitions such as this one can foster similar conversations leading to understanding and empathy. We encourage you to have those conversations and find what binds us together – while celebrating our differences.”
