In the frame, there sleeps a giant slowly rising from the snore. An eyeball giant enough to see it all. And blink it into oblivion.
Footnote: Sweet Pea is an unassuming power source. She has a giant ability to see things for what they really are – which is often not the same as how others see them. She travels lightly and makes wise decisions about what she takes with her – and what she leaves behind. The release of the floating ‘bobble’ might suggest she’s off to somewhere new.
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.
WHEN: Saturday and Sunday 24th/25th June. TIME: 10am-3pm daily.
I’ll be there all weekend so pop in for a look, sit and read, chat, a ‘jam’ on the old typewriter and see the process of how books are created. Books and cards will be available to purchase. JB (Janine)
Exhibition: Meet Janine Browne, Founder of The Black Dog Project throughout the weekend as she shares the beautiful art, stories, characters and process of creating the books and card collections that have grown to become a source of strength and antidote to loneliness throughout the community.
Call in and pick up some of the Project’s promotional cards to take and share with others.
And the Little Engine said; “I think I can. I think I can.”
‘The Little Engine That Could’ is a folktale originating from 1906 used to teach children the value of optimism and hard work. The underlying theme is a stranded train unable to find an engine willing to take it on over the difficult terrain to its destination. Only the little blue engine is willing to try and, while repeating the ‘I think I can’ mantra, overcomes a seemingly impossible task.
A good story to ride on when things seem impossible. And a reminder of the importance of little blue engines in life.
Miiesha (Pronounced My-ee-sha) is from the small Aboriginal community of Woorabinda in Central Queensland comes a 21 year old with a voice ready to be heard. A strong, Anangu/Torres Strait Islander woman, Miiesha has been singing for her family and her community since the age of 8, and has since been developing her songwriting as a teenager.
Miiesha’s music seeks to bring people together to help educate and inspire. She sings of her people and her community with the words of a leader and a teacher. Her late Grandmother’s interludes provide a thread between the tracks, highlighting the passing down of knowledge from Elders through the generations. (Reposted from April 2021).
Rose was very curious about the origin of sadness .
Rose welcomes all forms of feeling with a particular interest in ones of the socially unacceptable kind. She has pioneered many expeditions into the realms of fear, sadness, anger, disillusionment and horrible muddled states of mind with quite profound results and a significant degree of personal resolve. Long Live Rose.
