What better way to spend an Autumn day going round in Circles and covering it with paint?
I made the first table this time last year…click here


Posted by carolom on April 5, 2009
What better way to spend an Autumn day going round in Circles and covering it with paint?
I made the first table this time last year…click here


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Posted by carolom on March 8, 2009
My Mum came around the other day to paint the button beads we had made for a top she has knitted.
The beads are inspired by regular buttons and we are also making necklaces from them:

…we enjoyed spending time painting them, making a mess, ruining a couple …and talking…


Something happens when you sit and create together…stories begin to flow and memories are remembered as the peaceful, alpha-wave state of creativity inspires the busy mind to slow down … it is a form of open eyed meditation…
Mum was telling me stories from her childhood during the second world war in England. Educated by Nuns who had little time or tolerance for the self indulgence of ‘art’ and ‘creativity’…Mum drew me an image of the only avenue there was for creative expression…to copy a pattern within a pre-existing grid!

Thankfully Mum was able to live a creative life in spite of the repression of teachers viewing creativity close to sinful, artistic passion as selfish indulgence and individuality as yet another flaw in an already suspect Soul.
My two sisters and I are blessed to have both parents alive and well, married 52 years this year…and we are equally blessed beyond measure that our Mother did not lost her creative self in the shaming and vilifying atmosphere of an institution that today is having to face its many flaws and past errors.
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Posted by carolom on March 8, 2009
What a wonderful surprise it was when the deliveryman arrived with a big bunch of flowers for my Birthday last Saturday!
Thank you Angelina, Alan and Andrew…and Bodhi… for your thoughtfullness from way over there in Canada.
I kept a little photo journal of the flowers over the 7 days and am delighted to share them here with you…





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Posted by carolom on February 1, 2009
I have been sorting out my artwork and had dozens of A3 plastic sleeves in various piles around the room. I went out for a coffee and when I returned, noticed that some of the sleeves had tiny little razor marks on them and were not in the same place.
I placed the hidden camera in my hands and found the culprit. Purrly playing “Enemy”….
Posted by carolom on January 6, 2009
Sal and I recently returned from Stradbroke Island where we happily went to film the wonderful Wedding of two terrific people….and what a magical time it was indeed. People travelled form across Australia for this special, sacred event and the Stradbroke Island seafood and hospitality was one of those life-time memory occasions.
Thank you for the privilege of filming and creating the digital record Delvene and Che…it was a fantastic trip followed by our travels to Grafton NSW and Pittsworth in rural Queensland….how nice to see the country side so green after this dry ol’ desert town of Adelaide!




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Posted by carolom on December 16, 2008
It is not surprising that Nicole Kidman attempted to play the sacred instrument, the Didgeridoo – an instrument forbidden to women, a ceremonial instrument of many thousands of years.
That Hugh Jackman would bounce around on one leg parodying traditional dancers and think nothing of is most likely because they are anglo-Australians who reflect the ignorance that some….many….Australians have regarding Aboriginal protocols and Cultural Respect.
All of us white-kids of the 60’s and 70’s eras grew up in a country that had long ago turned sacred symbols into tea towels and souvenir’s, had forbidden traditional Aboriginal language to be spoken in government institutions and were taught the “A,B,C of Racism” through the example of the adults around us.
We grew up in a country where Aboriginal knoweldge was dismissed, rights were taken away the cultural practices were targeted for annihilation.
Click here for more of that story:
Nigger and the A, B, c of Racism in Australia…
Nicole and Hugh most likely did not intentionally set out to offend, the footage shows an atmosphere of fun and levity, delighting the audience with their antics…..and that in itself says a great deal about how ignorant non-Aboriginal Australia will remain until we develop meaningful relationships with Aboriginal people on a far wider scale than currently happens in order that understanding and respect can develop.
Many people have expressed delight and appreciation of the role of the Aboriginal boy in the high profile film “Australia” though as far as a true representation it is a film made by white~Australians about the romanticism of colonial Australia at a time this country was immersed in the slavery and apartheid that defined post-European invasion of ’settlement’.
The young boy mentions that the white woman coming is a sign of things being made better…the missionary-rescue story re- told black people relying on white people to determine their destiny.
Perhaps one day Nicole might have the privilege of sitting with the Elders, learning about the role of the didgeridoo in ceremony and celebration…perhaps Hugh might be invited to dance with the Men and experience the process of dancing with the rhythms of thousands of years of Dreamtime….
Until then the disregard for Cultural protocols , regardless of the role that fictional Aboriginal boys play in films, will probably continue during these very early days of recovery, recognition and respect for traditional Aboriginal values and practices.
The map below shows how many hundreds of Aboriginal groups existed in Australia prior to the invasion by European armed forces in 1788. Each First Nation group with its own extraordinarily beautiful art, music, ceremony, Spiritual and societal practices

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Posted by carolom on December 14, 2008
The photos say it all…Proud young Black Australians dancing in the Spirit of New Dreams, celebrating the Old Ways…as the healing and restoration unfolds…..
Family, song , dance, connection, Culture and open spaces without walls….






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Posted by carolom on December 7, 2008
Sometimes when we are out and about I forget that we are driving in the NungaTV car- so beautifully painted by Mark Blackman and the Warriappendi students. People often smile and some feel compelled to wave…such is the Spirit of connection and appreciation that Aboriginal Art invokes. Although if I have forgotten about the outside of the car, it does feel as if people are just waving and smiling because they are having a good day!…….(;-)
With the NungaTV car, it’s as if people are seeing a mobile dot-painting for the first time.
And they are of course!……..

Even grown men, when they stand near the NungaTV car, just want to play!….


The EarthSong Brothers………

Great to see Tony again after nearly 15 years and to be able to share in the EarthSong vision together…….
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