Day 4, Thursday.
More good Kapiti weather, more colour, more movement around the campus as student revellers get closer to their hearts content.
Dye pots still brimming with plants and deep lush smells on the boil. In between each trip to gather mementoes with India we return to squeeze the summer out and keep it on cloth with added mordant. Stretches of drying fabric designs waft happily in the breeze, waving to passersby on the deck.
Bodhis Life Drawing class has a great energy, reflective, constantly demanding more of themselves through practice and patience. I've attended work out gym sessions like this!
Michael's landscape painters have moved out of the classroom most of the week with newly found corners of the campus lifted up for painterly investigation. Their works up on display on Friday to reveal the weeks harvest.
Hanne's jewellery room is alive with expectation, using delicate cuttlefish casts that have been shared with the dyers for more shibori experiments. Everyone's work unfolds. Like excavation, but gently digging at what's underneath the cuttlefish.
Owen's carving group quietly beavering away, their intense concentration on netsuke figurines fallen away with the most lyrical music surrounding them like a soft blanket all week. More treaures winding their way to the surface....soon to be revealed.
Dinner out at Mussel Boys again who we have now adopted as our fab food of choice and great company. Then onto more Kapiti sights in Owen's surburban glow worm grotto. If you want to see stars under the stars and have a spikey foot massage for free then its a must do.
Visual arts has had a great kick start to 2008
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loving these lyrical letters!
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