emboldened

'A brand-new feeling of power surged through me. I had done something extremely ill advised, and it had worked out. I had survived. What else could I survive? I’d spend the next decade trying to find out.'

this great new essay by artist-filmmaker-writer miranda july on 'how a river phoenix look-alike lured a 13-year-old miranda july into an unexpected adventure.' looking forward to her new novel 'the first bad man' and also into her crazy 'somebody' app. my name is paw-paw.

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image: by stella berkofsky from here

pinks

 

do come and drink some bubbles in celebration

of sending this little book into the world!

it will also be almost your last chance to see these precious paintings

all in one place.

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'kirstin carlin: other avenues'

publication launch

from 17.30h, july 24

melanie roger gallery

226 jervois road, herne bay

image: kirstin carlin 'asquith' 2014 (oil on board, 380 x 300mm)

puddles, etcetera

a lovely new publication by kate newby

with notes of red and panda.

'incredible feeling' is filled with journal-like

notations of configurations of objects, places and parts of people.

it also features some writing, some of which is by chris kraus.

do try it!

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kate newby

'incredible feeling'

clouds and hopkinson mossman

2014, 144 pages

edition of 1000

paperbacks and postcards...

just one lovely penguin paperback

of many found in second-hand book stores recently...
favourites include: hard to find (onehunga mall)
and jasons books (o'connell street)

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ad lib

no-place, celebrity, simulacra..

do be sure to pre-order

thomasin sleigh's

debut novel

'ad lib'

here

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ad lib

thomasin sleigh

lawrence and gibson publishing

then waning...

sort of sorry to hear that 'the luminaries' is going

to be made into a bbc television series.

it's difficult to think about it without its incertitude and ambiguity.

it's almost as though catton's text is only part of the story

pointing to another half, lying shrouded in darkness

unknowable and unfixed...

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catastrophe

'it was on its feet. It staggered and then bolted.
Towards Mr Whipplestone who had come to a halt.
He supposed it to be concussed, or driven frantic by pain or fear.
In a flash it gave a great spring and was on Mr Whipplestone's chest,
clinging with its small claws and - incredibly - purring.
He had been told that a dying cat will sometimes purr...'

best cover ever.

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dropped

must admit I've been impatient for this catalogue.

it will be useful for re-kindling memories

of the annual long day that is the

elam school of fine arts graduates show.

ooph! time for the mechanical pencil once more.

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image: university of auckland website. apparently this catalogue is $20... still find it hard to believe there is no parsons... sigh!

colossus

a lovely old edition

of sylvia plath's 'the colossus.'

indian summer

perhaps we in the isthmus of auckland

do deserve a little late summer / early autumn sun after all?

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lady-like

"I am not always in what I call a state of grace.

I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in

my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture."

(Anais Nin, Journals Volume One 1931-1934)

finally tracked down the first volume of

mademoiselle nin's wondrous diary.

a ladylike cup with gold accents and a pale grey plate, thrifted.

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and the stars...

the name of this book was obscured in a misty past for me until quite recently.

I remember reading it avidly as a class when we were about eleven.

it is one of those magical fantastical books that dwell deep within quasi-fictional memories...

the slow moving and mysterious stony nargun, the cheeky potkoorok and the dark australian bush made up a kind of antipodean narnia.

hopefully I will find a copy of this puffin edition soon...

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image: 'the nargun and the stars' by patricia wrightson (1973)