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Post #48 Sunday 23 July 2017 – The Quadrangle
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Sunday 23 July 2017
Yesterday I went to a small event at Sydney University. It was held to celebrate the planting of two new flowering trees in the Main Quadrangle. These trees replace the old jacaranda which graced the Quad for years but which had expired.
It was a glorious day and the sandstone buidings looked beautiful.
The alumni organisation gave commemorative bagdes to guests (including to your glamorous aunt MG).
So this picture is a selfie – my phone camera insists on putting rays in which gives me a halo (oh dear).
Here is one of the trees, the flame tree.
And here is the badge. It has a stylised depiction of the contrasting colours of the flame and jacaranda flowers.
MG xx
in an almost perfect world
Brett Whiteley
Late afternoon today I took this selfie, twisted around a bit so that my arse is at risk of looking like one of Brett Whiteley’s designer executed arses. There could be worse things 🙂
So you can picture the scene: it was beautifully sunny after more than a week of being sick for me, and the sun made the skin really warm and shiny.
Like having a cold in summer, if you are sad in the summer, that is sad. So look after yourselves and each other – so says your glamorous aunt ♥
Here is one of the Whiteley bottoms (posing and being drawn) – purely for reference 🙂 It’s a drawing done at the house in Lavender Bay.
Post #1 Sunday 25 September 2016 – La Perouse Congwong Beach
Letters from America
The adventure this morning to La Perouse was lovely. It has always been a favourite place in Sydney. I collected my car yesterday from the repairer where it has been forever. So to celebrate its’ liberation, I took the car for a spin. It rained a little – just enough to make the colours on the sandstone at Congwong beach warm and rich. I had a few snaps taken and took more myself. I have included some here as people ask me for photos (there will be more posted in due course, just snaps in the meantime). This is your glamorous aunt being very casual in sneakers and pony tail.
MG doing sneakers, September 2016
MG doing a contemplative pony tail thing, September 2016
And here is a picture of some of the sandstone we saw. I have included this image because it reminds me of the paintings of Kimberley aboriginal artist Paddy Bedford. I am very partial to the idea that the painter can change the way you see. You no longer see a palm tree, you see a Brett Whitely palm tree.
In this instance, in the image just below, I can’t look at the pattern on this rock without “seeing” Paddy Bedford’s record of an ancient songline retelling some vision of relationships, landscape and history. If you can’t see that kind of significance in the sandstone well that is _O_K_ 🙂 You can leave the aesthetic divining to your visionary glamorous aunt 🙂 🙂 🙂
And an example of Paddy Bedford’s painting:
And this is a randomly lovely wedge-shaped piece of pink sandstone:
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xx MG