Robin Small was unbearably awkward in pubic and so began the battle of – what to do with hands .
Footnote: Not everyone sits comfortably in the world or in social situations. Which isn’t a weakness. Simply a difference. It’s brave to explore where you feel you ‘fit’ in in the world. To not deviate under the pressure to conform.
Robin Small struggled to find what seemed so forever elusive – the answer .
Footnote: Robin seems to hold a flag for the sense of wonder and mystery that was more afforded in years gone by, than in our world today. Answers don’t always come easy, and sometimes there aren’t answers to everything. But Robin, although struggling, doesn’t seem (entirely) defeated by the struggle. Or the elusiveness of answers. He’s tentative? Undecided? Maybe ready to step or move? And those new paths often open up from not giving up when there seems no answer, but by having the determination to keeping seeking and exploring and examining what doesn’t make sense. Responding in your own way to whatever uncertainty arises and whatever struggle arises from it?
As choices lay before him, Robin whirled in the – well, well, well.
Footnote: Robin appears to be in a zone of great uncertainty – and cautiousness. He could be anticipating the next step? The ‘well, well, well’ could suggest he’s weary of the waiving finger of disapproval? Or maybe the ‘well, well, well’ relates to a discovery he has made?
Find Robin Small in Clunk & Jam book (2019)
Robin Small street art Piney Lakes (Perth, Western Australia).
Boots in Kadidjiny Park (Melville, Western Australia).
Part of the Melville Storylines Festival.
Thanks again to Planet Books for the wall space at the rear of the bookshop for Robin and Amelia.
Clunk & Jam Second Edition Book (with content from the Black Dog Blog) and 6 new Card Collections are available on-line and in store at Fremantle Art Centre Found. See other Stockists here. Cover art Stormie Mills.
6 New Card Collections ….the socially shy Robin Small (pictured). Amelia Bloom, dreaming up a better world. Rose, the wise mould breaker (below). Boots the Clown making worry disappear. 21 Friends holding big feelings. And the new Sweet Pea, a personal power generator. $22/Pack Fremantle Art Centre Found. Collab Fremantle Markets.
Each pack of cards has five common cards (below) to share with others – including the 2024 hand carved and printed Black Dog by Joelie Russell.
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