2010 is starting to look like an exciting year. Word is just in that I have been selected participate in Schaffas 2.
What’s a Schaffas?
“The International Fauna Dossier describes a schaffas (Marcum-Schaffidius) as a gentle and un-aspiring creature of great mystery. This exhibition will demonstrate the various and complex forms that the schaffas adopts. SCREAMDANCE, Adelaideans Sam Barratt & Chris Edser, have hand-picked art-friends from all over the world to customize their own breed of schaffas”.
(text taken from Screamdance website – see below)
We are each being sent a similar blank shape and given free reign to add, subtract, paint or destroy these objects. The schaffas are then auctioned off with proceeds going towards Oxfam’s Close the Gap campaign, which works towards closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous health.
As you can guess my imagination is having a field day.
Thanks Screamdance – I’m rapped!
We have had many friends with new baby arrivals in the last month. I used to make baby blankets as gifts. That was before I became a mama and before we moved to hot humid queensland. So when second cousin Baby Boy O, and next-door Baby Boy S arrived I felt the need to create something more personal, fun and climate-appropriate than a blanket (please note…my blankets were run of the mill blankets, not nifty blankets-that fold-up-into-a-carrybag/cushion like Lady S made for Jonah. That blanket rocked and the idea was so superb that it has travelled all the way to israel).
Baby J is 8 months old now and finally the fibreglass belly we made of his in-utero days is finished and on the wall. Master N has done a fantastic job. For a long time we were unsure of how to finish it or mount it, but a bright lick of aqua paint, a rich timber frame and a summer string bikini has captured both Baby J’s personality and our lifestyle at the time it was made. I love it. 
