morepraxis

I had high hopes for Lent this year – and I had a great plan which never ventured past the first step, solely because my particular areas of work have been a very low priority in my overall work and life recently. It’s a repeated story: a lot of my great plans have fallen apart [...]

Emails for the learning group didn’t go out last week, as promised in the last post. This is one of those times when life and work have both taken unexpected turns. I’ll be back in the office Monday, I’ll be sending them out then. Pro…

Email invitations for the curation learning group are going out today. i was just finding some links to start us off and i came across Manifestos for the Future by Hans Ulrich Obrist. This quote on being contemporary struck me as being important not just to the art community…
The impossibility of capturing form in Boetti’s [...]

battle-scarred and tired
we watch you lift yourself
again
into the hardness of today
the cliches sit on the edge of our
tongue
left unspoken
in respect for their futility
and your new hard won wisdom
hold tight
we whisper
a prayer for ourselves
as much…

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.” – Barbara Kingsolver

I’m reading a discussion paper prepared for the Uniting Church’s national assembly. The particular topic of the paper is irrelevant here, but i came across a paragraph that is becoming depressingly familiar, and it’s got me annoyed enough to have been stamping round the office all day. I’ve decided you should all share the brunt, [...]

i have changed where home is
i have become a guest in the place of your faith
no more trying to make myself fit
contorting, awkwardly
i have changed where my home is.
The Culture and Context Unit, within which i work, celebrated its first birthday last week. It’s been a fun ride so far…
I’ve been spending today writing up [...]

i’ve been writing, writing, writing… everywhere but here.
i have 15000 words which are the beginnings of a book about the work we do in prisons. I’m at that quagmired stage. The best editor I’ve worked with said to me once, ‘when you think a sentence you’ve written is clever, you need to go back and [...]