Arts Aficionado

“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then."

Mary Oliver.

Kazuo Shiraga (Japanese, 1924-2008) - Kan (View), oil on canvas laid on board, 45.00 x 33.00 cm (1977)

The word wabi (侘び) does not lend itself readily to translation, for it can mean a number of things: loneliness, desolation,rustic simplicity,quiet taste, a gentle affection for antique, unostentatious, and rather melancholy refinement.

Yukio Futagawa, The Classic Tradition In Japanese Architecture

You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested and you. And if you ignore, it will control your life.

Today, our new ministry was sworn in to keep serving the Australian people.

No one held back and no one left behind. That’s the future we’re building, together.

Getting sick of seeing police cars daubed in anti-ALP political messages. How does that fit with either their social licence or statutory obligations? One car today: 'Make Vicpol Great again'. Next to a note on 'crime rates under ALP' ... I thought they were public servants?

Gina's Auspol2025 team Monster World. Dutton, Taylor, Ley, Hanson and Joyce as the Munsters.

Gina's
#Auspol2025 team #auspol

Dutton’s latest Policy announcement .. in pictures

#auspol

Posted this on threads a year ago today.

It must be 12 months this weekend Barnaby overdosed on booze & Viagra and had the affair with that poor Canberra planter box.

#auspol signtst Katch of the week! 🎶Featuring Simon Says Benson😬

“To practice any art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. So do it.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut

THIS 👇 🎯

A bucket of shit. I wouldn't drive one even if I were given it for free.

Don’t waste your hard earned $$$ on Murdoch’s poison

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.
— Roy T. Bennett

art Mark Rothko 1949

Not all grapes are suitable for wine making e.g. table grapes (vitis vinifera) which these look like. But the Japanese have mastered cultivating the most extraordinary delicious fruits in every sense:taste, texture, colour, smell, size. A (one) perfect Bijin-hime strawberry can cost around US$320,00

When your tree gives you lemons….
get creative 🍋

Painting with the picture plane covered in a nass idf small flower motifs in different colours and with black circular and oval centres

'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian artist #WomensArt

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
~ Dalai Lama

artist unknown

Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Seven Sisters Dreaming, 2016 #WomensArt

Intelligent people can foresee…..

"Color is a power which directly influences the soul."
~ Wassily Kandinsky

Lavender Fields
oil on canvas
by Larry J Davis

Market Day
oil/cold wax on cradled panel
by Larry J Davis

😈 Your bottom. Mmmm.

Walking the dog
by Ishika Guha, artist

Loving the Australia Day meltdown of #RWNJs on Twitter.

That’s 54 more days of confected outrage until D-day … lolz 😂🤣

#Delicious