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Autumn’s final moody moon welcoming the winter ‘morrow
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Angela O’Keeffe’s capacity to introduce a humanised perspective from inanimate objects is a unique formula of abject delight, recurring in her three publications to date. As is her threading of art historical personalities and this latest work presented fresh opportunity to introduce a health condition we have both shared, making for a punchy poignancy and power in writing of one’s lived experience. Thankyou. I loved Night Blue pertaining to Pollock’s Blue Poles, The Sitter to Marie-Hortense Fiquet (Mme Cezanne) and this recently launched, Phantom Days with a punctuated referencing to Rothko …
“At last, I knew the story within me. But I cannot tell it to you, no, that is impossible. Words are my guts; I cannot cough them up. I can only tell you what it was like to be read.” p. 139 Angela O’Keeffe, Phantom Days, 2026. .by.committee
📷 ~ book, bag and memorial urn

The sun is shining here on as we head into watching the final day of the free online International Festival of Wild & Kind Ideas with a line-up of speakers as follow:
Day 6: Monday 25 May
Times below are listed for Eastern Australia. AEST.
~ Hannah Moloney: Why we garden—9am
~ Michelle Maloney: Bioregions and Rights of Nature—10am
~ Natalie T**a: Water Resilience-11am
~ Pella Thiel: Creating a bioregional embassy—5pm
~ Maddy Harland: Wilding permaculture and publishing—6pm
~ Cate McQuillen: Deliberate optimism—7pm
All in conversation with Festival founder and facilitator beaming out from the unceded lands of the Jinibara and Gubbi Gubbi peoples. Thankyou Morag and all who have created this upswell of connectivity giving all participants the hope and tools to move forward to shepherd and advocate for a wonderful world.
Slide through to read the speaker bios.
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