I attended your presentation of 'Symmetrical Plantings' at the Second International Conference, Art in Early Childhood, University of New England, Australia, 5-9 February 2007. Composed as part of an artist in residency at the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale NSW, your work involved wrapping a symmetrically planted group of poplar trees with surgical gauze,in an interweaving pattern around and between them. Over time the gauze absorbed smells of wood and leaves. I helped in 'winding up' the work, unwinding the lengths of gauze from the trees and rolling them into balls. You then distributed these to some of us who were at the conference, with instructions to document what we do with them. Here is one frame in an animated sequence I made today, in which the gauze unwinds, and moves in wavy motions like the sea and yielding up its treasures from the deep. But these are treasures from the land: bits of dried leaves, twigs, soil and (a surprise) the three echidna spines you gave me!
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I attended your presentation of 'Symmetrical Plantings' at the Second International Conference, Art in Early Childhood, University of New England, Australia, 5-9 February 2007. Composed as part of an artist in residency at the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale NSW, your work involved wrapping a symmetrically planted group of poplar trees with surgical gauze,in an interweaving pattern around and between them. Over time the gauze absorbed smells of wood and leaves. I helped in 'winding up' the work, unwinding the lengths of gauze from the trees and rolling them into balls. You then distributed these to some of us who were at the conference, with instructions to document what we do with them. Here is one frame in an animated sequence I made today, in which the gauze unwinds, and moves in wavy motions like the sea and yielding up its treasures from the deep. But these are treasures from the land: bits of dried leaves, twigs, soil and (a surprise) the three echidna spines you gave me!
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