I’m once again making a piece for the coolest, quirkiest show on the Australian art calendar #certified
The Biblio invites artists to respond to a book by an Australian author randomly selected by the The Blarney Books and Art team. I have been allocated Sunbathing by Isobel Beech.
So far this book has visited 6 cities with me… Sydney, Melbourne, Jakarta, Borobodur, Jogja and right now we are in Kuala Lumpur; fitting for a tale of travel and… I won’t give it away.
I have been taking notes within the pages of the book. Whenever a thought arises I make a mark, underline a passage… make it about me.
I am currently curating an exhibition about the concept of consent… and it makes me wonder how authors feel about this? Would they like to see the musings in the margins, or would they feel their work was desecrated?
Ode to my Grandfather
It was always a no
No!
according to my late grandfather
to desecrate a book
with dog ears or notes
When he died I inherited his nursing textbooks
and guess what I found!
In the margins
in his beautiful hand
not yet quivered by age
were notes
and observations
underlined passages
Oh you rebel you!
Male nurse at a time when
that just wasn’t
done
his title was ‘Sister’
writer within margins
Vandal.
Dida Leo, the man who taught me how to read.
(Sister) Leons Lukins