I have been slowly making time to get my website up to date - there’s still a ways to go. I’m hopeless at documenting my work and with all the other admin tasks no one tells you about when you become an artist, this one always seems to fall down the ranks on the to do list.
I got a call from a friend:
“Where’s Kylie?”
Kylie? I asked… “the budgie?”
“Yeah, she should be in your Mixed Lollies”
“But Kylie isn’t art, she’s just something that makes each new place feel like home, lots of travellers have little rituals they keep”
“Yeah, like what?”
“Oh, some have a framed photograph or buy scented candles, or flowers or even a small plant”
“You have a ceramic budgerigar that you keep in the freezer”
“Point taken…She likes it in there ok….it’s her home”
So here I am, about to look through my phone for a photograph of Kylie… I think she may have had a suitcase for a while.
Found it, I’m still not sure that she counts as art and will make it into Mixed Lollies… we’ll see… we’ll see.
Kylie in her natural habitat circa 2021, While we lived in the Veriu Hotel for 3 months in Alexandria
(currently chillin’ in an Indonesian freezer… I still smile every time I see her