Today Patience and I travelled to Melbourne in readiness for the B, B & B Tour Launch at Maryborough on Saturday. So nice to be picked up at the airport by son Joe and to see Ez too. We travel south to have Patience’s braces adjusted and try to have it coincide with other delights. So it is all happening according to plan. A chat with my long-time optometrist and friend Nick gave me the thought that without the impending new job prospect, I have been given SPACE; meaning space to think about what I am doing with my energy, time, life. Funnily enough, it is just such ‘space’ taken earlier that lead me to consider the drastic idea of entering the workforce, earning cold hard cash for something I am good at and being able to put the cold and heartless grind of ART out of centre space for a time, a reprieve, if you will. So, now I have to come up with another idea while being content where I am…Well, at least I am not a dancer with a time limit on my arts output!

Oh yes, the title…IKEA…went to an exhibition at Craft Victoria by Adam Cruickshank called Reverse Cargo using IKEA objects transformed in to art. It is quite clever to put add a ‘primitive edge’ to objects of desire and consumption. This relates to my Celestial Inversions Display which presents Spotlight-purchased golden wings as botanic samples of noxious insects.