Voyager

These framed photographs

I made several years ago

as a set of 10.

Usually they live in a box but now

they are on display in my studio.

The misshapen monkey is from

the Whanganui Museum.

I made about 1500

badges from the image.

Today's Camellia

Taranaki has a nip in the air

which Himalayan plants such as

Camellia and Rhododhendrum like a lot.

In my garden they grow vigorously.

Coleus

For the last 12 months I've quite suddenly

become interested in coleus. These specimens

are in my studio and seemed to have

grown quite sturdy over the winter.

I've photographed them several times over the

last few months but, as usual, todays image

is the one that I am most interested in.

Details

Today

I'm in the middle of a major

tighten up of my office, studio,

and living quarters.

Now have new roof, insulation, wool on top,

munched up plastic drink bottles underneath,

and black plastic on the damp earth.

Came across these two photos this afternoon.

They are between two and seven years old.

Another Studio View

These are rock samples collected by

the Southland Museum in Invercargill.

Snake

Last night I was babysitting and fortunately

for me the four and a half year old

dug into my toy boxes and dragged

objects out that I had forgotten about.

This snake is one of them.

Outside Walls

Today I have had my electric chainsaw

out and been clearing walls on which

I can glue up photographs that

I have been storing in my studio.

This photo is several years old,

taken of a piece of driftwood

that I picked up near here.

The green plant on either

side is the vine Tecomanthe

Speciosa

A Child

I have quite a lot of toys here and tonight

also a child.

The blue inflatable fish I've had for about

2 years, it originally came from

Invercargill.

I'd had a few attempts at turning it into a picture

but to no avail although I did make

an earlier version, from the collection of the

Southland Museum.

It was a fish turned into light.

But to get back to the point,

the child today had found the blue

fish, blown it up, and brought it

to show me.

It made me take up my camera again.

Hanging

I'm having a major rehanging

of the walls where I live at present.

It's taking much longer than I thought

it would, but still, it requires thought.

The bed in the upper photo is in fact

quite small. It's a child's bed in my guest room.

The pink object on the foot of the bed

is a hot water bottle.

The nights are frosty here at present.

Rose

This photo is of an artificial rose,

the type that has a small light bulb in it.

Trinity

Whitebait

Two Goats

This photo is another that is the beginning

of a tryptych at least.

I think that Trinity and Whitebait should be

the other legs of the tripod.

Waves

I'm gathering my wave photographs together

tonight. I'm not sure whether I've

posted this one before, but I've several

of them and I get confused.

Studio Walls

Today I began, for the first time in ages,

organising the walls of my studio.

Basically I'm doing a ruthless rehang.

I decided to start with my left hand. The wall

to the left of where I sit when I write on the

computer.

Here are 3 recent works, they begin

the line.