I do not really feel much like writing anything happy and clay related today, we had an election here in Tasmania yesterday and the people voted overwhelmingly for a conservative right wing government. This does not bode well for those of us concerned about the state of the environment, those of us with a larger vision that does not involve chopping everything down and ripping everything up. Long live our corporate overlords or some such nonsense was the subtext in the lead up to the election and now we shall frack all the things. The people have spoken.
SIGH, So I shall distract myself with the work and try not to think about all the things.
Look, seabirds. The clearly defined bird is the first bird I made at a workshop with the lovely and talented Eve Howard and the smaller two are experimental birds.
I found a rock that looked like a dinosaurs head.
There have been some interesting ceramic conversations happening over on the Virtual Clay Facebook event page the description of the event is as follows,
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This is a chance for you to get involved in an NCECA panel whether you’ll be in Milwaukee or not. Virtual Realities, Material World is a panel addressing the role of social media in the professional lives of four ceramic artists. This March join Michael Kline, Ben Carter, Adam Field and Carole Epp in person or through social media in the conversation. Use #virtualclay on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to pose questions, share ideas, build community. We will be collecting your questions from now until Friday March 21st
Also I am in the process of setting up a ceramic shop. Yay me. I will have a proper launch soon but for now it is still in the early tweaking stages and you can have a sneak preview of my ceramic shop here. Your feedback is appreciated.
That is all from me for today, I am off to teach at Clay Club this morning and then going for a bit of a subdued March in March in Hobart.
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Love, love, love your bird(s). And your shop. Yay Kim.
And I am finding the direction our country is lurching in more than frightening. Terrifying. Cut down MORE forests? Dump waste on the Great Barrier Reef? Traumatize, imprison and torture people already facing unimaginable horrors? It hurts my heart. And head.
Yes it hurts mine as well EC, very much but we can just keep on doing what we are doing because if we give up, then we are truly farked. Are you going into Canberra to March tomorrow? I went down to Hobart’s march today and it restored my faith in human nature 🙂
I hope so.
Am I really first? That’s a first for me! Liking the birds…..a lot!
YAY for being first. woooo
#10 I feel sad too Kim. Some of my friends think it is impolite to talk about sex religion or politics, but if religion didn’t obsess and interfere with our sexuality and politics didn’t protect the perpetrators, we could get on with talking about the things that run the world. Why is everything hijacked by politics? Especially commonsense and common decency. Maybe if we had been teaching civics in classrooms for the last 20 years we would have a population who understood their rights and that what is happening so not fair. Off to March today in Victoria under the new Move On legislation. I expect graffiti in Victoria may become more interesting and political like it was in the 70s – street media.
Tasmanians are the happiest Australians according to a 2011 survey, which doesn’t surprise me. Our outer world is deeply connected to our inner world. Today isn’t the day for false cheer, but Tasmanians and friends are outspoken, protective and proactive when it matters, and it’s going to matter a whole heap. You won’t be alone.
A shop now? I hope it does well for you.
I like that little white bird and I love the dinosaurs.
The dinosaur head rock is a good find, perhaps it’s a fossil?
I’m staying out of the political minefield.
Health issues prevent me from going on marches.
Will continue to fight by writing letters.
What keeps hope alive, is regardless of election outcomes people like Julian Burnside, keep fighting on for refugees, just keep whittling away advocating and eroding the barriers. Even, Malcolm Fraser, who resigned from the Liberal Party and is continuing to advocate away on behalf of the refugees, and has he made it clear publicly, why, he did this.
Once you regroup, your formidable strength will reassert itself, together, with the support from your friends.
The support shines through here, and on FB.
My sympathies lie with, and echo, how I am feeling, with what you, Jo, Jebaru, and Elephant’s Child have expressed.
What I am getting from reading widely, places like : the ABC blog news pages, Independent Journalists and blog writers and commentaries on FB, there is a slow groundswell arising, of ‘awareness’ and the feeling is mutual in many places.
We are in for a rough ride. There are small metaphorical fires being lit all over the Australian Map.
Even a bunch of year 9’s gave Abbott curry, (on YouTube), he, ‘redjocks’ did not acquit himself well.
SA is interesting and the Independents may save the day there.
I hope for Scott Ludlum in WA, he will keep on batting away regardless. Nick McKim’s post election speech was rousing.
Take heart – there is a lot of us out there feeling similarly. Take care.