2lb elephant

last years jumpers

last years jumpers
have become this years scarves.

marbles

some people loose them.
some people never had them.
others keep them in their pockets,
and then there are those
who have a hole in their pocket
and dont notice until it is too late.

elephants

i was walking round the corner
in the hope of finding the tissue i had dropped.
when i last checked it was in my sleeve.
its wasnt there now.

i kept my head down.
so as not to miss it.

but it wasnt my tissue i found.
it was an elephant.

'i was looking for my tissue' said the elephant
'oh' i said

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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the hum of the city

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.