Cosentient regard

We observe that we observe coincidences. 

Yesterday, we received via email links these two images below. Each a painting by a woman, each depicting a woman looking at a bird perched on her arm. 
                                            

Theatre of the Aviary of Regard  

 Gloria Stoll Karn
 Woman and bird 

 1940s
 watercolor and gouache on board
 22 1/2” x 22 1/4”
 © Gloria Stoll Karn :

 Article here :

  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA

Theatre of the Aviary of Regard  

 JOY HESTER (1920-1960)
 Girl with Cocky c.1957
 oil on paper on board
 unsigned
 titled and dated on Strines Gallery label (attached verso)
 handwritten 1986 certification of the painting by Albert Tucker 

   on a second label (attached verso)
 49 x 62cm
 

 Auction link here :
 PS  Sold for $322,400, setting a new auction record for Hester

  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA

The Handmaid's Tale - Season 2 Episode 6 Roll Credits :

Oh Poly Styrene !

Some people say little girls should be seen and not heard
But I say... 1 2 3 4
Oh Bondage! Up yours!
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! 1977

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something...

         

 LOGOS/HA HA 

advertisement : parts 1 & 2

Stop at nothing 

Go refreshed - 

Enjoy a break today 

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        A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
        someone looks at something...

         

        LOGOS/HA HA 

   

LSEI : Live Sentient Export Industry

 Do unto others 
 as you would have them 
 do unto you.

 VIDEO : Click here for vision of conditions on board live export 

 sheep ship to Middle East (ABC News)

TAR : Theatre of the Abattoirs of Regard 

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA
 (Agnus Dei/HA HA)

  

Mind Set

No one tipped Essendon to beat Geelong yesterday, and yet...

...after a sacking, comes the will to make amends :

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"It's all in the mind, folks." - Spike Milligan

 True colours : Harry and Meghan celebrate the Bombers win

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA

  

Mother Tongue

 

 Batman : Season 2 Episode 9 

 The Greatest Mother Of Them All

 Scene 1 : Mother Tongue Twister

 

Dick Grayson : Gosh, Bruce, Greek is
still Greek to me.
Aunt Harriet Cooper : It's Greek to a lot
of Greeks too. Heh. It's one of the
world's oldest, most important, most
beautiful languages.
Dick Grayson : It may be, Aunt Harriet
but can't we take a breather and work out
in the gym for a while?
Aunt Harriet Cooper : But the mind needs
exercise too, Dick.
Dick Grayson : Well, my mind is getting
muscle-bound.

Bruce Wayne : There's an old saying,
Dick. A sound mind and a sound body.
A worthy goal.
Aunt Harriet Cooper : Now, what do you
wanna do first? - Parse, conjugate, or
decline?
Dick Grayson : Decline.

Alfred the Butler : It's the Batphone,
sir.  
Bruce Wayne : Hm? Yes. It just occurred
to me, Dick. Commissioner Gordon is a
Greek scholar of note. He may be able
to tell us more than books and
blackboards.
Dick Grayson : I'd like to talk to him.
Bruce Wayne : Excuse us, Aunt Harriet.

 Scene 2 : Dick Does His Homework

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

Full fathom fifty : The Field Revisited

Five decades deep, The Field was staged at the new National Gallery of Victoria flagship in St Kilda Road, Melbourne.

 In conversation, Eric Westbrook, Royston Harpur, Roy Grounds

 on the set of Theatre of the Actors of Regard - The Field, 1968. 

 Photograph by George Mehes / National Gallery of Victoria

Now, the pilgrim and tourist TARists would return. 

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them,
-  ding-dong, bell.

   Shakespeare, The Tempest 

Theatre of the Actors of Regard Revisted  

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA

  

Meeting tonight

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 周榮 友松 

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA

  

Mothers Day

From cousin Paula, today, this photo of her mother Rene (right) and your correspondent's mum, Vera.

W. Sheridan Photographic Studio, 117 Pall Mall, Bendigo      

  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA

  

Words In Order : Gerald Murnane

Advance release from the author of The Plains, 
present resident of Goroke.

A selection of tracks from the forthcoming album
'Words In Order' by Gerald Murnane - available June 14, 2018 (preorders shortly)

• 1

  The Ballad Of RTM
• 2

  Gerald Murnane recites 'How I Wrote Elastic Man' by The Fall
• 3

  Are You Digging on My Grave?
• 4

  Knuckles The Dog (Who Helps People)
• 5

  A Plea To Those Who Survive Me

  
  
• 6

  Gerald Murnane recites Wire's 'The Drill'

  
  
• 7

  At The Drapers

  
  
• 8

  Gerald Murnane recites 'Everybody Loves You When You're Dead' by The Stranglers
• 9

  In The Cemetery

Theatre of Auditory Response  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA

  

NGV Mothership Love

Theatre of the Actors of Regard ft. MA and SvS  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA

Look who's here!

 Ikkyū Sōjun (1394–1481)         

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA

  

CANVAS STRETCHING DEMONSTRATION after Ike Taiga (1723-1776)

A few days ago we received this image and notification from Chapman & Bailey (Melbourne).

FREE CANVAS STRETCHING DEMONSTRATION
Saturday 12th May 2018
11am – 12 pm

BOOK NOW - Limited Spaces available!

You are warmly invited to attend a FREE canvas stretching demonstration presented by Mark Chapman.

*Chapman & Bailey Melbourne only*

For this demonstration, Mark Chapman, founder of Chapman & Bailey, will be demonstrating:
  - All about different stretcher profiles and bracing
  - How to put a stretcher together so it is square

  - Cutting the canvas to size
  - The art of stretching a canvas with and without 

    stretching pliers
  - What are wedges for?
  - Surfaces: The difference between linen and cotton, 

    unsized and primed canvas, 

    the different weights and densities of canvas you can use
  - A brief explanation of surface preparation for raw linen

Chapman & Bailey
Melbourne Art Shop
420 Johnston St
Abbotsford, VIC 3067
ph 03 9417 7957

Limited numbers! Please book a ticket to reserve a place.

*Wheelchair access


Stretching The Field

The Chapman & Bailey advertisement reminds us of something similar, the arcane preliminary painting practice known as Stretching The Field.
  

Ike Taiga records a public demonstration of this.

The Stretchers were dedicated apprentices who assisted and learned from their Void Master.

Painting The Void 

Taiga shows us a demonstration intended primarily for prospective practitioners of Painting The Void.

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something... 

         

 LOGOS/HA HA