Study of Telebunnies

watercolour on paper

Strange flower

This flower opens downwards. It looks like a lantern from festival!

Just found out that we need to move out of this house in 2 months so I'd love to have this flower in a garden in a new home!

Japan Festival

I went to Japan festival today in Box Hill. This is the first place I came after arriving in Melbourne in 2003. And since then I hadn't been there so it was kind of nostalgic! At the festival, I was so impressed by this Japanese Model Railway Group. Their miniature Japanese country-side city with all the railways was just superb!!!! I love miniature sculpture so I was just looking at all the details for a long time. You can look at it for hours as there are always new discoveries in the model. Little people picking tea leaves or fisherman working etc... I didn't have a camera with me so I had to borrow photos from their website. They have so many different trains there and know exactly what train runs where in Japan. There was a waterfall, a shrine, snow etc in some of the scenes. This kind of dedication in any form is so inspiring! And also the Japanese country-blues guy George Kamikawa playing with this shamisen player Noriko Tadano at the festival was quite fun!!! Love the sound of shamisen! 

Rachel's cabinet

I bought a dentist cabinet at the Industria on Gertrude Street on the weekend for organising my endless paperwork in the drawers below the cabinet and displaying my small toys, fossils and stones in the top cabinet.

It's a lab furniture so the drawers are quite practical and smooth to use and as soon as I put my things in, yay it's so my taste!! All look comfortable sitting in the cabinet. Finally got a home for them. Now I feel like I want to buy petri dishes and beakers on dining table to complement with this cabinet at home.

Ros Atkins' Exhibition

This Thursday is an opening for Ros Atkins' exhibition 'The state of nature' at Australian Galleries on Smith Street. I haven't seen Ros since the end of last year at Australian Print Workshop so I have been looking forward to seeing Ros and her recent works. I'll try to learn from Ros' wood engraving as a reference for my own work as I've started my new wood block. I'm doing a calcite (not bunny print for the first time in nearly 2 years!) from my fossil and stone collection. It's going to be an island where my bunnies inhabit. I'm having trouble getting a right texture of the rocky surface. Fur is far easier! Well I'll try my best and wait for APW to re-open from its renovation so I can print my wood block. When was it going to open, July...?? 

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit 09 version

This is the 2009 version of Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit. I got this made by lovely Abby at Irwin & McLaren in Richmond.

I do not have a skill to make anything like this so beautifully and just got no time so I decided to ask Abby.

She did such a great job:D

This is really beautiful to just look at and feels great to touch, so smooth.

Yes I made a right decision!!

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit 07 version

I made a folio for my rabbits in 2007 for the project Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit.

I really liked the idea of keeping all the engraved rabbits in one folio as one piece of work outside normal edition.

I thought by creating this folio archive with letter pressed name of each bunnies, it would give a sort of authenticity to the bunnies, looking as though they were real, existing creatures. At the time I have only 4 bunnies but now they've expanded the family, some have gone from this folio, some new.. So I decided to make a new home for them.