Craft Cubed PART 1.

Craft Cubed launches this Thursday eve from 6-8pm.  It is Craft Victoria's annual festival with exhibitions, seminars, workshops and open studios.  Studio MüCKE is taking part in 3 events! 

Firstly, we are participating in an exhibition at eg.etal in Melbournes iconic Flinders Lane.  This is a collaborative show conceived by the talented jeweller Emma Grace.  The brief, consisting of text and 3 pieces of sterling silver jewellery, was offered to 7 Melbourne creatives.  The exhibition in short, entitled How the light gets in invited it's collaborators to share how they go about maintaining a sense of hope and a more sustainable practice in a world of environmental devastation and climate change.

The pieces Emma and I created were designed to reflect the work I make for studio MüCKE, highlighting my belief that it is only through persistent and enduring work that we can find any answers to the problems of the times we live in.  The works are titled Multiples of 1.

Here's Emma and I at work in her studio, developing work for the show.

 

How the Light gets in, runs from 6th-18th August 2012 at eg.etal in Flinders Lane Melbourne.

cars, bikes, sustainabilty, yasi & another New Year.

Today.  

It's the first day of the Chinese New Year. 

Year of the Rabbit, hippity hop... 

Some of you might feel like you'd like to start the year again.  

I've had good feelings about this year, 2011.  

Double 1's after all.  

Such balance, visual greatness in numbers like that!

  We've already had 1.1.11 and 11.1.11, and how about 11.11.11 yet to come.

Regardless of all that, I still think I had a false start to this year.

Four days ago a car crashed into me,

on my bike*

I was lucky, 

VERY

lucky

to escape with just bruises,

bumps

and some grazes

minus 1

bike.

So, today is a New Year and I'm back at work

again

but I'm not yet feeling 

100%

I doubt whether all the people in Queensland who've lost their homes, or part thereof, to the floods or Cyclone Yasi, will feel its an ideal time for a New Year either.  The list of natural disasters could go on.

Some perhaps will just be thankful to be alive.

I'm definitely thankful, there is no doubting that,

still, 

I think I'll wait and see

how I feel in March.

 Begin the year with the Tibetans perhaps.

Any takers?

. 

*head to this here festival if you're baffled as to why I might be riding my bike around the city in the first place!