May 11, 2008

a chance to be a part of art

this a great chance to be a part of art.
a friends project and she could do with a loose
thread or two.

read below


Loose threads are one of life’s little problems.

Left unattended our buttons fall off,
our seams unravel,
our pants fall down.


Loose threads symbolise all that is unfinished in the world - that which has come undone.

I want to do something about it and I need your help

Send me a loose thread, textile is best - it can be extracted or found

I will tie it up, along with others, crafting a collective solution to an old problem.

Feel free to send this request on to your family, a friend, an acquaintance, or friends of friends.

Contribute by sending your loose thread to

PO BOX 741, Newlands Estate LPO, Coburg, Victoria 3058 Australia
By May 29th 2008

Include an email contact address if you wish to be kept informed. Many thanks
Roseanne Bartley (mailto:roseannebartley@hotmail.com)

About Roseanne
Working with a wide range of materials and processes Roseanne creates jewellery and objects that offer a meditation upon the journey of material substances and their relationship to us, to time, space and place. Roseanne’s projects often involve some form of social process or community participation. In a side street in Barcelona she initiated the ‘Link Up’ project – a collective drawing of a necklace, in Santiago she began documenting the extraction of a single hair from occupants along the lateral line of the Southern hemisphere, and her second Human Necklace performance project, Teardrop was held at the Southern Cross Station in Melbourne. A mother of two young children, Roseanne is temporarily unable to travel the world (or go out at night) but she allows this to shape her work rather than to limit it. To view her work
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bartleybila/RoseanneBartley
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bartleybila/LinkUp
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bartleybila/HumanNecklace
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bartleybila/CanYouSpareAHair

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May 08, 2008

the hum of the city

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ive been cycling like a crazy person.
its freezing in our house and im an old fashioned girl.
so rugged up in scarves we peddled our hardest.
we dont get far but boy we are toasty.


April 14, 2008

ready set go....

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we are all just racing around at the moment...
the occasional toot but on the whole its just a mad dash.

i know that there is zen out there
but my most zen moment is pulling into the petrol station
to fill up again.

April 06, 2008

we have been back for ages

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when i look back at my last post it is as if we have been
travelling on a long straight line forever.
but infact we havnt
we were there and back in a matter of days....

ive been listening to the tunes of ned collette
lyrics that could fill a landscape of brilliant ideas

February 22, 2008

a house is a house for me

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were back on that road. a straight line all the way to adelaide.

February 20, 2008

looking hi and low

i tell you i have looked everywhere.
to the point that i have started finding things
that i had long ago given up on looking for.

and i cant find it anywhere.


its my battery for my camera.
so no pictures and at this rate that could mean forever.

so it will just be words for a bit.

did i just hear you sigh?

February 07, 2008

mono

prints. for rainy days

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February 06, 2008

whos is this ?

they wont be asking this when they look behind a collar,
under the brim of a hat or the back side of undies.
oh no.
they are all labled and ready for kinder.


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February 02, 2008

some days

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some days are designed to simply lay around looking all floppy.

January 28, 2008

mobile

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playing with sewing circles of paper together.
tracing paper and printed paper.
for the mobile swap.

when the wind blows they spin. its nice

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