AND THE WINNER IS

MELIORS

Yay for you.

GIVE AWAY

Now that the sixth season of Project Runway has finally arrived on our screens here in NZ, it seemed like a good time to offer a give away of our latest Pania Press title, which is a poem by Jack Ross inspired by the tv series. Excuse the greyness of the photos - the crisp white Bockingford paper doesn't seem to photograph well.

Is form your master or your slave?

Diane von Furstenburg's aesthetic:
Lots of layers, flowy, elegant
Marlene Dietrich in
A Foreign Affair
a spy, a glamour girl
Berlin, Shanghai ...

I set the video rolling on longplay
halfway through the night before
it nets up everything
for those six hours
Project Runway included
our Saturday morning ritual over toast & jam

My taste is impeccable
Daniel's pompous declaration
earned him a braying laugh last week
from poster-girl Kenley
This time her skimpy dress
is "simply not enough"
to net the prize

No-one can layer prints like you do
Tim flatters
Diane accepts the tribute
as her due
The designers wet themselves
with glee to serve
such a big name

Is form your master or your slave?
I am an artist on the level
of Michelangelo or Van Gogh
thundered Santino
two years ago
Where is he now?
Designing quietly, one hopes
in Venice Beach

Supererogatory, yes
the insights
quasi-accidental
& yet I feel myself
debate the cut
fall for the sharpness
of a silhouette

The poem 'Silhouette' is from a limited edition of ten signed and numbered copies. A4 size, printed on Bockingford watercolour paper, with paper and fabric collage and machine sewn design elements.

If there are any fellow Project Runway enthusiasts out there, I have one copy to give away so if you would like to go in the draw to win it just leave a comment on this post.

Anyone from here in New Zealand or overseas is more than welcome to enter.

ps: If your comment doesn't lead me back to a blog or website just use the anonymous comment option, but be sure to leave your name in your message so that I can put your name in the hat.

I will announce the winner right here next Sunday, 28 February.

our place

Whenever a new painting gets added to the collection, the occasion calls for a reshuffle of the contents of our small but perfectly formed 1960s brick and tile unit. It's a kind of welcoming ritual. The illusionistic effect of this work by Graham Fletcher, which I mentioned in a recent post, is that it creates another room within a room, and the objects in the painting form visual connections to the things in my actual living room.

like the three birds, for instance

The rotation of artworks that followed saw the rehanging of a Stanley Palmer linocut print of Auckland over my newly positioned writing table, which is now in a lovely breezy spot right next to the front door...

and two drawings by Emma Smith have been moved into the bedroom

An early Mistint work by Graham hangs in the kitchen, which is still in its original state with my favourite snifter-green painted cupboards.

Of course, Zero doesn't care a fig for the new arrangement - just so long as my reshuffling activities don't interfere with her valuable snooze time.

follow the white rabbit

Over the years I've gathered a nice collection of 1950s paper and textile craft books. When I flick through them I always get a bit excited about all the things I could make, so when I came across a cute little how-to make paper animals project in an old school journal I couldn't resist...

But then I got a bit carried away.

One thing

led to another

and before I knew it,

I'd made...

A paper town.

It might seem like an oddly childish thing to have made, but actually it's the first part of a much bigger project I'm cooking up. It's a bit too soon to share the details, but one thing's for sure - there will be a lot more models to come...