April Art

My lunchtime walk at work throws up some interesting sights. 

Happy Easter, everybody

And this is a walk from home: Mount Painter is our back garden playground. 

Not our new house

Him Outdoors atop Mt Painter

Sadly there is another item for the t-shirt cullery gallery. Much as I have loved this shirt over the last 30 years (I bought it from Affleck's Palace in 1990), its holes are now too large to conceal, and it is time for it to retire. It has served me faithfully.

As it was Easter Sunday I played with the beautiful light through the trees in the morning thanks to the Prisma filter on my phone and the natural one through the trees. Happy Easter. He is risen. 

Au naturel

Rehearsals

Here are the latest images of t-shirts that have given solid service, but are now consigned to the special place where good clothing goes in retirement.

Those rehearsals about which I was writing last week? Yes, they're really tough, as you can see from this roguish cast and crew. Seriously, I'm loving working with these immensely talented ladies. 

Cast and crew of Coda for Shirley rehearsing at the Oaks Brasserie

And some rather beautiful graffiti.

Art and sculpture

I quite enjoy these garish sculptures of fat sheep and their rather incompetent-seeming sheepdog in the Dickson shopping precinct.

Another new person started at work today so I am no longer the newest kid on the block. Apparently new staff = cake, which is fine by me. 

Salted caramel popcorn cheesecake

Look what I found on my phone when I was clearing out photos. This bemused Burmese can still make me smile. 

Chester selfie

A trip to the National Library of Australia reminded me how great are these artworks hanging in the foyer. There are three stunning tapestries, made from merino wool, which were conceived to harmonise with Leonard French's stained-glass windows, and designed to be best viewed from the mezzanine level. Mathieu Matégot, Professor of Art at the prestigious École des Beaux Arts in Nancy, France, began working on the tapestries in 1966 and they were installed in 1968.

The first tapestry depicts the radio telescope at Woomera, South Australia, representing the technological times in which the library was built. Woomera was NASA's first deep-space station located outside of the United States, and it participated in a number of early important space missions. 

One of Mathieu Matégot's Three Tapestries

And this T-shirt is finally consigned to the bin after nearly twenty years of service and very happy memories. 

T-shirt cullery