April 18, 2012 - The great question of more …
Nice follow on from the previous post (a few down) about being enough (or not).
Music/Film/Book
April 10, 2012 - No Worries
A good laugh about the stuff that can go on in heads – you know, the paranoia and overthinking kind of thing. Thanks Mags – good find. Keep a strummin’.
March 21, 2012 - Shrink it down
Good one if you’re feeling overwhelmed – or not enough in your smallness. Check out Kimya Dawson … a girl comfy in her difference. Thanks for this one MM. Pass it on to all your girl (and boy) friends …
March 7, 2012 - Elephants and Children
Interviews with Children is a beautiful project created by Harrell Fletcher in collaboration with Dumbo Feather Magazine. Both are a treat. See previous Dumbo related posts on Black Dog … Unwanted Thoughts an interview with Author Paul Jennings. No Laughter Matter about clown phobia. An encouraging one for ‘unqualified’ artists… Outsider Art. Bit about the Mag. and the wonderful woman who started it. And 40,000 Years of Connectedness, a important documentary, ‘Kanyini’, about Aboriginal culture and connectedness.
February 8, 2012 - The Red Tree Comes to Life
‘The Red Tree’ by Shaun Tan
‘Darkness overcomes you’ (by Shaun Tan)
Shaun Tan’s book, ‘The Red Tree’ has been adapted for the stage by the Barking Ghecko Theatre Company, Perth WA. Showing from Saturday 11th Feb – Tues 14th Feb. Tickets available through BOCS. Check out the short film of the Red Tree previously posted on Black Dog here. And another story here from his book ‘Tales of Outer Suburbia’. View interview with Shaun Tan and Director of the stage play here as they talk about the themes of depression and anxiety in young people and how the book/play explores these themes.
February 7, 2012 - Dad’s coming home
‘Dad’s Coming Home’ by Winslow Homer, 1873 (Source ‘Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2012, a magazine of history and ideas).
Art is for everyone – or should be. It invites us to explore meanings of things. Seek deeper understanding. Tell our own stories. It also allows us to practice the questioning of things. The ‘reading’ of what we see, and grow ourselves through this process. Art also suggests untold stories and whatever story arrives through our own perception of it, is ours alone. We can never make a mistake in the interpretation of its meaning. It may (most likely will) differ from the Artist’s meaning but we can never be wrong. Some questions that came up for me about this piece, were….