Archive for the ‘Place-Projects’ Category
31 December: NEW YEARS EVE – Toowoomba
TOOWOOMBA NEW YEARS EVE 2011 FIREWORKS
Not Sydney but it’s all we’ve got (and we can walk home in 5 minutes!)
A great five course dinner with friends, the fireworks was course two, Champagne, exotic cheeses, home-grown baked veggies, Felicity’s rack-of-lamb and Beverley’s famous raspberry sauce!!
Fireworks in 'Frogs Hollow' Toowoomba 7.30pm December 3, 2011
2012 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
25 December: Magic Revealed – Xmas Light Displays
Clown shape - Christmas Wonderland
Have you ever been enthrawlled by the sight of those amazing Xmas light displays that become such a feature of the Yuletide season? Darkness hides the ‘how it’s done’ and all you see is the vibrant colours and the shapes formed.
SEE MORE IMAGES IN THE BEHANCE FOLIO – CLICK HERE!
READ ABOUT THE “CHRISTMAS WONDERLAND” – CLICK HERE!
Two Angels
Spikey star
15~18 December: Mt Buffalo National Park
Revisiting the mountain will require many posts. Here is a taster …
To see the FULL Mt Buffalo image package visit our ‘PLACES VISITED’ Blog – alongthetrack.wordpress.com
Victoria Cooper and Doug Spowart in the Mt Buffalo Chalet garden
Doug and Vicky at the Gorge lookout, Mt Buffalo National Park
Vicky photographing flowers at Mt Dunn, Mt Buffalo National Park
Doug photographing near The Horn, Mt Buffalo National Park
14 December: Dining lunch @ the Niagara Cafe Gundagai
Stepping back to the 1950s and 60s – Dining in a cafe with cubicles and the locals.
The phrase ‘when I was young’ is so cliché and yet as one grows older fragments of past memories emerge from everyday experience. The fragments trigger memories of simpler – less complex times and simple pleasures.
The town of Gundagai is part way along the Hume highway between Sydney and Albury. We stopped in town looking for a place to get some lunch – a takeaway maybe, the simple staple of the Australian traveller – a meat pie, tomato sauce and a can of Coke. Bakeries in the town looked closed, swish fine dining cafes looked too predictably up-market.Mid way along the main street was situated the quaint facade of curved glass, tiled step and menu taped to the window of the Niagara Cafe. We walked in to a 1950s bench-styed dark stained seating area. At each table salt and pepper shakers sat astride red-capped dark sauce bottles and a menu. The table tops were a pea green and walls covered in newspaper reports, horse racing photo finish pictures, paired Australian and Greek flags, annotated photos and other ephemera.We checked out the menu ….
Here are a few images – SEE THE BEHANCE FOLIO – Click Here
The front door of the Niagara Cafe
A couple of patrons
13 December: James Turrell – Skyspace ‘Within without’
On three occasions we have visited the Turrell Skyspace artwork @ the National Gallery of Australia during our time in Canberra. Turrell states that:
My work is about space and the light that inhabits it. It is about how you confront that space and plumb it with vision. It is about your seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking into fire.
For us the Skyspace was like visiting a physical and visual phenomenon. The images that follow record our experience of the artwork – and some of the fun.
An external view of the Skyspace installation
Inside the Skyspace installation – standing before the stupa
Vicky looking up towards the sky opening
4 views of the Skyspace opening
Sitting in the sun spot – two separate views
A wedding photographed in Skyspace
Vicky photographs fellow visitor
Sun circle projection
Inside Turrell’s Skyspace with friends doing selfies
The two of us before the stupa at the end of our visit
A wedding photographed in Skyspace
9 December: Summer Travels
On the road to Canberra
This series of Blog posts presents a selection of WOTWEDID over a 5 day period at the beginning of our 2011 Summer Travels.
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10 December: Arriving in Canberra
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Our artist friend Liz Coates took us to an exhibition opening @ the M16 Gallery. Entitled TIMESCAPE the exhibition consisted of works by Julie Brooke, Ella Whateley & Vanessa Barbay (All visual arts PhD students from the Australian National University)
M16 Panorama : Exhibition "TIMESCAPE"
The exhibition was opened by Ruth Waller, Head of Painting @ ANU School of Art. Waller spoke of the challenge of the visual arts PhD and the special nature of the knowledge that artists have that is tuned and refined in the process of research and study.
Ruth Waller, Vicky and Liz Coates
The work on show is a testimony to the work of the artist as academic researcher. The artists’ state that the work is “An exploration of how experiences of the complex and multi-dimensional qualities of time and space may be embodied in the material process of painting.”
SEE website for details http://m16artspace.com.au/?p=635
Pictures @ an exhibition
SEE A folio pictures made @ the exhibition opening http://www.behance.net/gallery/Pictures-an-exhibition/2669661
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4~6 November Escape to Girraween National Park
Wildfowers are the origins of the word ‘Girraween’ and wildflowers there were during our visit.
Vicky shows Doug the way ...
VIEW IMAGES OF THE FLOWERS @ OUR <alongthetrack.wordpress.com> BLOG
20 October: THE END OF THE ROID
Watch a Video of the momentous occasion – the last Polaroid box opening, loading the Polaroid back, the last Polaroid “Pull”, the last few transfers and lifts ever to be taught to and done by students – teachers – anyone!!
A Gallery of images will be posted soon.
Cheers
Doug
1 October: Picking up some thesis help
At a break during thesis reworking – bringing it up to the penultimate draft we went down to Diggers Beach. The challenge of philosophy is to contemplate the inconceivable: find clarity in the profoundly obscure.
I was faced by the ultimate in natural phenomena – a shadow. My recent readings of Deleuze, Derrida and Bachelard gave me an understanding to perceive and confront the impossible – – – – –
This one's for Bachelard
This one's for Deleuze
This one's for Derrida
Pictures by Victoria Cooper under direction.
23 Sept Yuraygir National Park Flowers
I was there
Wrong time of day
But . . .
Here are some
Along the road
I quickly captured
Bright light
On a warm spring day
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posted by Victoria Cooper
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