Anyway, I haven’t exactly been tagged, but cool-person Deborah of In a Strange Land posted her meme of fives yesterday and I thought I may be able to adapt it to an art theme – here goes.
What was I doing 10 years ago?
Well I would have been in Wellington and I would have been hanging about The Dowse in Lower Hutt. Unfortunately they don’t have an exhibitions archive on their website, so who knows what I was looking at.
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:
Buy art…So what 5 things would I buy?
Well to be boring a Clairmont, a Fomison and a Maddox, because I like trinities and I like Clairmont and Fomison a great deal and it would be weird to have only 2 out of three of the Militant Artists Union.
A McCahon – an I AM one or a landscape of the Otago Hills type.
The 5th is HARD. Keeping NZ…??? Ah – a miniature by Ronnie Van Hout.
Of course all that wouldn’t put much of a dent in the billions but its what I’d like.
Five jobs that I have had:
None to do with art unfortunately. Radio engineer, PA, cidermaker, IT geek, midwife.
Three of my habits:
Coffee, coffee, coffee
Five places I have lived:
Invercargill, Roxburgh, Christchurch, Wellington, Palmerston North – not very cosmopolitan.
Five people I want to get to know better:
Hmm – For a start I am going to name bloggers because well this blog has introduced me to some very interesting and cool people. None of which I’ve me in person and I’ll try and keep it arts focussed. Also some bloggers I already know reasonably well as e-friends so I’ve left them off. I hate this actually – its like ‘playing favourites’.
Jacky at Passages
Poet Helen a Stripy Sock Studio
Dave from Pointless and Absurd
Ali Bramwell
Cheryl
I am still working on updating my blog roll. You can take it that anyone there has met with my approval (haha).
And to finish – a small quiz. Where is this and how is this site (and its former occupants) relevant to NZ art? (excuse the bad photo – I took it)
June 18, 2008 at 2:47 am |
Testing 1,2,3…
June 18, 2008 at 3:22 am |
Yes merc ?
June 18, 2008 at 3:34 am |
I don’t know where the crosses are located (photo is good) or their relevance but they have got me thinking about resurrection.
June 18, 2008 at 3:37 am |
I am happy about that. Don’t you love the crosses by the power pole?
June 18, 2008 at 3:43 am |
Very much, I feel you have under rated your shot, it speaks volumes of interesting things to me, not least the path (neatly mown beside) and the round molded Macracarpa (sp) trees.
And if we wanted to get really in there, the power pole cross as The Fourth to complete The Quarternity…
Are the crosses coloured Red, White & Black?
June 18, 2008 at 3:51 am |
Yes red, white and black.
June 18, 2008 at 4:41 am |
Colin McCahon having a vision of the crucifixion in the NZ landscape in the 1940s, while observing a worker up a power pole? Or Laurence Aberhart’s ‘Dimboola, Victoria, 13 August 1997′, the car yard with the three crosses like a Calvary? But those hills behind somehow look like the view up the Kapiti Coast. I give up.
June 18, 2008 at 9:31 am |
I will give the answer on Friday if no one gets it before then
June 24, 2008 at 12:38 am |
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