here are a few (+ two) of my new favourite things

a song: unreachable 

a book: bob dylan ain't got no home in this world anymore 

a store: purchased here

a film: who is bozo texino? 

OMG LOL

Not just nepotism: Pacific 2, 2006, oil on canvas; one of my favourite paintings from the incredibly talented artist/cousin, Meghan Irvine. More from Meghan here.

This looks nice, No Strings Attached, on now at Gallery Atsui.

Russell Gordon's WISHING HELL, 2008. He's a happy little camper. More here.

A new town,
a new home.
Here are some things I

Missed
!!!
Swarm feat. Russell Gordon
Fleet Foxes

Miss
You

And will miss
VIFF

RECENT PREOCCUPATIONS:
JOSEPH BEUYS
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
DESIGN E2
STRIPES
POTATO PRINTING
HEAD-DRESSES
EVEREST
RUNNY NOSE

(ABOVE) ELIZABETH NEEL, THE LOSERS, 2007, OIL ON CANVAS.
When I was three years old, a fox raided the chicken coop on my parent’s farm. The site of the massacre was strewn with evidence of its swift violence. One particular bird had only been partially consumed – almost perfectly bisected in such a way that it’s entire reproductive system was revealed. I could see a series of stages beginning with a yolk and ending with a perfect, shelled egg within that body – fixed at the moment of death in pristine order. This visual experience represented a turning point in my relationship to the world. I now see it as my first clear instantiation that life, and nature underneath it, is a baroque, mysterious thing that hangs precariously on a framework of elegant reason.
-Elizabeth Neel

I HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR ABSTRACTION. SUBSTRACTION, FEATURING WORK BY ELZABTH NEEL AND OTHERS, ON NOW AT DEITCH PROJECTS.