Jeremy Baker
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I’ve been playing a bunch of Canadian songs on repeat today. I made a playlist for Bill which he seems to like.
This is so wonderful…
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@Miraz - I think I might need to learn how to embed things!!
Plants and rocks at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park. Pōneke.
The ancient art of barrel making, the work of a ‘Cooper’, has always fascinated me. One of many crafts we once relied on, but is now a rare and marginal skill. #mbnov #crafts
Captivated and transported by Red Leap’s interpretation of Janet Frame’s “Owls Do Cry” this afternoon. It is now 65 years since the book was published; this performance gave it fresh relevance.
#writer #book #modernist #novel #autobiography #JanetFrame #Aotearoa #OwlsDoCry
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. ”
Shakespeare (Henry VI, Part III)
#mbnov
“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”
Maya Angelou (New York Times, 2013) #mbnov
“Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.” Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall: A Novel, 2009) #mbnov
None of us should be exempt from the maxim “This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any”. #mbnov #shakespeare #modernised
"Jeremy + Bill" (Oliver Cain, 2021)
The wonderful piece of art commissioned from Oliver Cain to celebrate 25 years together in 2022 is now properly framed and up on the new Corten steel wall.
Matariki and the European Bronze Age
Aotearoa NZ is about to celebrate Matariki - the appearance of a constellation of stars that herald the Māori new year. New Zealand will have its first public holiday for Matariki this Friday 24 June.
Many cultures around the world and across history have used the Pleiades star cluster as calendrical markers.
As the recent book "The World of Stonehenge" (p145) notes, the Nebra Sky Disc (from Bronze-Age eastern Germany c1600BC) features this symbolism:
"There is a distinctive rosette of seven stars clustered between the full and the crescent moons. These are identified as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters (fig. 3.22), recognised by many world cultures as calendar stars, since they are last seen in the night sky in March and only reappear again in October."
"The Greek poet Hesiod, writing in c. 700 BC, noted that 'when the Pleiades rise it is the time to use the sickle, but the plough when they are setting'. Their disappearance and appearance has been seen historically a marker of the beginning and end of the farming year in Europe, and the Skidi Pawnee people of North America used these celestial markers as a sign to prepare rituals and ceremonies connected to the agricultural cycle. In the region of eastern Germany where the disc was found, the Pleiades is last seen in the sky on 10 March, alongside the young, crescent moon. The full moon accompanies the reappearance of the constellation on 17 October. On the disc, the Pleiades is tellingly placed between the crescent and full moons, suggesting an awareness of this celestial rhythm."
This is a fascinating connection between a prehistoric Bronze-Age world, and the resurgence of te ao Māori in contemporary Aotearoa.
Exhibition catalog from “Queer - Stories from the NGV collection”. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Significant joinery progress. This is not only astounding craftwork, it is art.
#joinery #craftwork #art #renovations #recycle #warehouseapartment #openplan #design #evastreet #hannahslaneway #wellington #aotearoa
Le Cercle Noir. A truly outstanding food, wine and sensory experience. Thanks Shepherd Restaurant and Millton Vineyards for a spectacular evening. #visawoap #evastreet #hannahslaneway #wellingtonnz #aotearoanz
