... time for sleep

It has been a long, busy and fun-filled week

Birthday celebrations with those I love
and feeling cherished
... lots of wine, good food and beauty 

finally ... it is Friday evening and deconstructed time begins
the Grand Final is on tomorrow ...
the Mighty Hawks (our family team) vs the Swans ... feathers will fly

but for tonight
i'm content with evening yoga, a cup of tea
... and the chance to lie on my sofa beneath my quilt & candlelight 

... to admire
 a hand carved bookcase filled with all my beautiful books
and a vase of white flowers  

... a moody storm is brewing across the bay 

and ... it is so lovely to be here 

- happy, warm and sleepy.

goodnight
x

Flavours of Greece

Katina and I celebrated the Antipodes Festival and Flavours of Greece tonight at the Hellenica Republic. 

An evening of over indulgence.

Jules Birthday

Life can be seen as a garden maze, sometimes the hedges are too tall to see over or, too thick to see through, with no way of knowing what lies ahead or around the corner. There is a beginning and an end but, there is also a lot of learning, experiences and memories to cherish in between. 

Thankful for the beauty, freedom, inspiration, essence and ...

in my life.

TarraWarra Museum of Art

Birthday celebrations continued today with a visit to the TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville-Yarra Glen to see the third Biennial Exhibition 'Sonic Spheres' and lunch at the TarraWarra Winery.

Gorgeous Spring day, relaxing drive through undulating green, lush and sun kissed valleys, wine tasting a decadent lunch.

Feeling loved, lucky and inspired...

Drought and Rain

Video link: Drought and Rain

French Vietnamese choreographer Ea Sola celebrates historical and cultural memory and mediates on the human cost of war and imperialism in Drought and Rain.

Garden of dreams

... to be discovered.

Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge is an exhibition on the representation of medicine and he human anatomy through art and is being held at the University of Melbourne and Ian Potter Museum.

Ruth Hutchinson's Vessel to hold one's breath (2012) and Beat (2012) (image of work featured below) were particularly captivating.

Peninsula Hot Springs

What could be more decadent, and therapeutic for mind, body and soul; than spending the day with my beautiful friends at the Mornington Peninsula Hot Springs. Followed by an evening gathered together at a Grand Design abode, overlooking St Andrews natural flora and rugged coastline.

Ah Pure bliss.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY & Thanks Suz  

x

Alfresco

With the first kiss of Spring in the air, the suns warmth brushed against my skin and I made the most of Sunday afternoon by gathering with friends beachside, to sip wine and enjoy the charsmatic company of a baby-blue eyed European male.

A little delicious.

Star*****s

Star***** s written, produced and performed by Laura Caesar and Malcolm Whittaker

This four hour duration piece of theatre at the Arts House in Melbourne was described by critics as "a strangely unsentimental love-crafting, the product of an idiosyncratic confessional cottage industry, against the saccharine celebrity romance sagas of the gossip magazines. Caesar and Whittaker insert their more prosaic relationship perspectives, and do so in a gently self-deprecating way.”  Whereas, Laura and Malcolm described Star*****s as "our (every) moment in the spotlight. We hope we are interesting enough, beautiful enough, enough of enough.”

During what evolved into a captivating and intimate theatrical experience (part romance, part voyeurism)  primary school arts and craft teacher Laura and her partner, artist Malcolm Whittaker exposed and shared with the small group of strangers that had gathered; the realities, simple beauty and acceptance (of self, one another and their relationship), by reading from the personal diaries that document their ten years together. 

Seemingly every movement, every moment - together and apart - broken down and made public. Their stories continually unfolded and overlapped as their everyday narratives wove through (almost) never-ending construction and reconstruction. Simultaneously miniature papier-mâché pairs of lovers were constructed from their shredded love letters, to represent the construction and consumption of relationships by media and fairytale, and in turn the consumption of these relationships by the public. 

Star***s is about the great suburban dream of fame and fortune and love – and finding it poetically in the banal and everyday.

Their performances and my experience was far from banal and it was beautiful privilege to share their intimate world for this brief time.

Israel Film Festival

I didn't know that Albert Einsten played the violin? The things one discovers during an unsuspecting evening at the cinema.

Tonight while watching Incessant Visions, a visually stunning documentary about Erich Mendelsohn a Jewish architect and his talented wife who was a cellist; I saw images of them and their friends including Einsten during one of the many musical gatherings they would arrange in their home.