City of Plenty

Three years ago, when working on Plastici at Margot Lewer's home in Penrith, Lee-Anne Hall the director spoke with me about doing a project. This year it became reality. It has been documented by the students at Caroline Chisolm High School on this blog I was fortunate enough to have the great pleasure of assembling and arranging the donated works... For real, usually I go out seeking/collecting/gathering, THIS TIME IT CAME TO ME! What is more, at the end of the project it was donated to Penrith Community Kitchen, and Oz Harvest...benevolent goodwill...over $20,000 in non-perishables were donated, and much as I would've liked even more, I felt like I was the beneficiary of way more.

Art and Breakfast

I met a great artist in Tokyo; Midori Mitamura. She hosts breakfasts around the world, and this year she asked other people to co-ordinate and do the same. file:///Users/sarahgoffman/Documents/Art%20&%20Breakfast%20Day%20%7C%20Australia-Vol.1.webarchive It was fun. We talked about a r t. I served a cross between a Japanese breakfast with miso, rice and pickles, eggs and seaweed and Australian. We had iced coffees. Present; Ivan Cheng, Lisa Andrew, Bec Dean, Raquel Ormella and Koji Ryui

Box Brownie

Early in January I felt a strong urge to make a Box Brownie camera. My friend, the great Vanessa Berry had given me a copy of her zine; I am a camera, which was exquisite. In return I wanted to give her a paper camera and was compelled to make one. Only weeks later, Kodak went into receivership.

It's only paper and has no capacity to even make a pinhole photo, I just thought it would be a cool gift for her.