tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32448614964674485392024-03-21T13:46:04.429+11:00Notes from the Willow GroveJan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-29028076444256739292016-02-01T18:00:00.002+11:002016-02-01T18:00:30.935+11:00New Short CoursesWell, after a very long absence from the blog....Hello!<br />
I have been VERY busy writing a book! Something I have wanted to do for as long as I can remember.This will be published further into the year so more about that later.<br />
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Right now, this week, I have three new short courses commencing at my home studio--The Willow Grove here in Milton, NSW. Australia.<br />
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Mondays,starts Feb 1.<br />
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These will also be offered as weekend workshops soon so if you live nearby perhaps you might like to join me.<a href="http://www.facebook.com/The-Willow-Grove">www.facebook.com/The-Willow-Grove</a>Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-45579061436110942882015-01-13T19:03:00.003+11:002015-01-13T19:03:36.364+11:00Fibre arts Winter School<div class="aboveUnitContent" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;">
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Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-33574034891313154692014-12-01T07:43:00.001+11:002014-12-01T07:43:19.262+11:00The Book of Trees- reposted from http://www.brainpickings.org<h5 style="background: rgb(255, 219, 0); color: #333333; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro-1, ff-tisa-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center; width: 500px;">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Trees-Visualizing-Knowledge/dp/1616892188/?tag=braipick-20" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="" src="http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bookoftrees.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 9px 0px 3px 15px;" width="200" /></a>Why is it that when we behold <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/14/the-oldest-living-things-in-the-world-rachel-sussman-book/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">the oldest living trees in the world</a>, primeval awe runs down our spine? We are entwined with trees in an elemental embrace, both biological and symbolic, depending on them for the very air we breathe as well as for our deepest metaphors, millennia in the making. They permeate <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/09/20/the-night-life-of-trees-tara-books/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">our mythology</a> and <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/29/trees-of-life-a-visual-history-of-evolution/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">our understanding of evolution</a>. They <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/21/hermann-hesse-trees" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">enchant our greatest poets</a> and <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/27/richard-feynman-fire-trees/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">rivet our greatest scientists</a>. Even our language reflects that relationship — it’s an idea that has taken “root” in nearly every “branch” of knowledge.</div>
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How and why this came to be is what designer and information visualization scholar <strong>Manuel Lima</strong> explores in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Trees-Visualizing-Knowledge/dp/1616892188/?tag=braipick-20" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><em>The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge</em></strong></a> (<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/book-of-trees-visualizing-branches-of-knowledge/oclc/854611430&referer=brief_results" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>public library</em></a> | <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781616892180?aff=brainpicker" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>IndieBound</em></a>) — a magnificent 800-year history of the tree diagram, from Descartes to data visualization, medieval manuscripts to modern information design, and the follow-up to Lima’s excellent <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/31/visual-complexity-book/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"><em>Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information</em></a>.</div>
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<em>'Genealogical distribution of the arts and sciences' by Chrétien Frederic Guillaume Roth from Encyclopédie (1780)</em></div>
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<em>A remarkable tree featured as a foldout frontispiece in a later 1780 edition of the French Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, first published in 1751. The book was a bastion of the French Enlightenment and one of the largest encyclopedias produced at that time. This tree depicts the genealogical structure of knowledge, with its three prominent branches following the classification set forth by Francis Bacon in 'The Advancement of Learning' in 1605: memory and history (left), reason and philosophy (center), and imagination and poetry (right). The tree bears fruit in the form of roundels of varying sizes, representing the domains of science known to man and featured in the encyclopedia.</em></div>
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<em>'Tree of virtues' by Lambert of Saint-Omer, ca. 1250</em></div>
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<em>Palm tree illustration from the 'Liber floridus (Book of flowers),' one of the oldest, most beautiful, and best-known encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. Compiled between the years 1090 and 1120 by Lambert, a canon of the Church of Our Lady in Saint-Omer, the work gathers extracts from 192 different texts and manuscripts to portray a universal history or chronological record of the most significant events up to the year 1119. This mystical palm tree, also known as the 'palm of the church,' depicts a set of virtues (fronds) sprouting from a central bulb. The palm tree was a popular early Christian motif, rich in moral and symbolic associations, often used to represent the heavens or paradise.</em></div>
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<em>Diagram viewed by economists as one of the first organizational charts. The plan represents the division of administrative duties and the number and class of employees engaged in each department of the New York and Erie Railroad. Developed by the railroad's manager, the engineer Daniel Craig McCallum, and his associates, the scheme features a total of 4,715 employees distributed among its five main branches (operating divisions) and remaining boughs (passenger and freight departments). At the roots of the imposing tree, in a circular layout, are the president and the board of directors.</em></div>
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In a time when more than half of the world’s population live in cities, surrounded on a daily basis by asphalt, cement, iron, and glass, it’s hard to conceive of a time when trees were of immense and tangible significance to our existence. But for thousands and thousands of years, trees have provided us with not only shelter, protection, and food, but also seemingly limitless resources for medicine, fire, energy, weaponry, tool building, and construction. It’s only normal that human beings, observing their intricate branching schemas and the seasonal withering and revival of their foliage, would see trees as powerful images of growth, decay, and resurrection. In fact, trees have had such an immense significance to humans that there’s hardly any culture that hasn’t invested them with lofty symbolism and, in many cases, with celestial and religious power. The veneration of trees, known as dendrolatry, is tied to ideas of fertility, immortality, and rebirth and often is expressed by the <em>axis mundi</em> (world axis), world tree, or <em>arbor vitae</em> (tree of life). These motifs, common in mythology and folklore from around the globe, have held cultural and religious significance for social groups throughout history — and indeed still do.</div>
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The omnipresence of these symbols reveals an inherently human connection and fascination with trees that traverse time and space and go well beyond religious devotion. This fascination has seized philosophers, scientists, and artists, who were drawn equally by the tree’s inscrutabilities and its raw, forthright, and resilient beauty. Trees have a remarkably evocative and expressive quality that makes them conducive to all types of depiction. They are easily drawn by children and beginning painters, but they also have been the main subjects of renowned artists throughout the ages.</div>
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Dive deeper <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/17/the-book-of-trees-manuel-lima/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</div>
Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-46383469783531625162014-09-04T21:37:00.003+10:002014-09-04T21:37:48.673+10:00Almost ThereI have been working on this piece recently-it's a bit of a mix as I am combining, acrylic, oil and collage onto board.<br />
The model is my eldest daughter, Amber.<br />
I will be attaching a shadow box the same width as the painting with a little soul boat, nest and ocean treasures with a sentence that encapsulates the essence of the painting- though I still cannot decide what that sentence will yet be.<br />
I want to convey that quiet knowing hush in nature when one truly feels it's mystery.---the little Zebra finch is whispering his secrets.<br />
It also depicts a kind of muse who lives on the coast.....between land and sea.<br />
This is just a detail for the moment.<br />
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<br />Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-61406187685956005452014-07-10T13:32:00.001+10:002014-07-10T13:49:34.484+10:00Finding Inspiration Finding inspiration from around the home and garden .....really just an excuse to further procrastinate over attempting a large collage or painting (can't decide).<br />
Have been spending a bit of time teaching classes and workshops, programming juicy concepts and haven't been working on my own creative practice so much.<br />
Well, thats not entirely true. I have attended a fantastic workshop, been to an adrenalin pumping raku firing and a gloriously therapeutic soapmaking session--- all of which will be blogged about shortly.<br />
During all of this I cannot stop thinking of next body of work I have been trying to birth for ages---many small "contractions" but no labour yet-- the delivery date draws ever nearer though, so I must ,must, MUST physically put more time into painting and collaging and making.<br />
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Having said that, to save myself from sinking into a mood of defeat and overwhelm, I am posting some interesting textures and images from my living space to soothe me.<br />
Then I will feel better... then I will go and paint!<br />
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Thanks to the lovely Julia Collinson for designing the graphics for my flyer -you truly know the essence of what I'm about.<br />
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<br />Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-52556804627056135732014-07-03T17:53:00.000+10:002014-07-03T17:53:55.566+10:00Teaching at Ballarat I will be teaching at a five day retreat at Ballarat next winter.<br />
Working from text that I have written we will be exploring metaphor and personal symbols using mixed media .<br />
In the form of a cloak for The Gatherer (which is you) and creating a number of small objects you will be able to visually express aspects of your authentic Self.<br />
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<br />Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-90176408805621840092014-06-17T09:58:00.002+10:002014-06-17T10:01:00.246+10:00 Fibre Arts AustraliaI was recently interviewed by Glenys Mann from Fibre Arts Australia <a href="http://fibrearts.jigsy.com/fibre-arts-at-ballarat-2015">http://fibrearts.jigsy.com/fibre-arts-at-ballarat-2015</a> about my creative practice and studio.<br />
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I have been asked to teach a five day course at the retreat Fibre Arts @ The Winter School next year!<br />
What an amazing time that will be..a great atmosphere with so many creative souls gathered at Ballarat Grammar School for days and days...working with their chosen tutor- many from overseas, on an amazing array of workshops -and not only fibre arts but jewellery and metalwork, sculpture, woodwork etc.<br />
Its a fantastic,fun-filled and nourishing experience.<br />
A couple of years ago I attended as a participant and created a wonderful personal shrine with Christine Atkins from W.A .<a href="http://www.christineatkins.net/">http://www.christineatkins.net/</a><br />
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Here is the link to conversations with the maker : <a href="http://conversations.jigsy.com/jan-kierzkowski"> http://conversations.jigsy.com/jan-kierzkowski</a><br />
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<br />Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-27093306940117474102014-04-04T16:25:00.001+11:002014-04-04T16:25:47.710+11:00Sensory AwesomenessOne of the local shops are having a big sale-SO- I bought some luscious soap that smells divine and look at those colours!!<div>
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Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-48069389785529960262014-03-30T19:35:00.002+11:002014-03-30T20:12:40.904+11:00Orly Avineri Workshop I attended a visual journal workshop back in January by Orly Avineri from USA, entitled "Inside The Outside".Tracy Verdugo was hosting this event in Huskisson ("Husky")on the NSW south coast.<br />
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The group shared some collaborative pages-firstly making marks and collaging with torn paper wads etc, we then passed our journal to the person next to us where they made marks, wrote a comment of word about how this process felt and what we felt about relinquishing control over our own journal-surprisingly this was quite an issue with some-therefore a great learning curve.<br />
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Fun drawings that were part of "Art on a String"for last year's Artfest .<br />
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Very satisfying process .<br />
They can be used to compose and construct paper sculptures and reminiscent of mountainous landscapes or rhythmic waves or possibly what gentle music would look like.<br />
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Quirky little boats have been floating into my art making for some time-<br />
they come and go and I never really pay much attention to them ,<br />
I make quick little scribbles or a 15 minute marquette or a day-dreamy splash of paint-<br />
one day I'll treat them more seriously perhaps and analyze their symbolism and take the time to draw and paint and sculpt them with care and patience-<br />
but for now they remain pleasant visitors passing through my psyche,<br />
giving me a chance to play .<br />
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<br />Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-81979430915081459672013-10-15T01:20:00.000+11:002013-10-15T01:20:04.975+11:00Around the HouseWhat do I surround myself with?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I'll get it back in thirteen months time filled with other member"s original artwork.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Each member of the round robin will select a double page and consider a colour-(I have typed different names for the colour in various fonts onto a strip of vellum inserted between the pages).</span><br />
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Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-36815164635451021942013-06-01T23:26:00.001+10:002013-06-01T23:26:30.908+10:00Stitching MermaidsI had given collage and hand lettering a rest for a couple of days and made some more cloth mermaid muses- I even included a desert mermaid-that will get some of you wondering-and others , you know where I'm coming from.<br />
Anyway it was fun and I have a couple of favourites as usual. These will go into my (almost there) Etsy shop once I finally figure out descriptions, tags , prices and postage.<br />
Do you think I should give them each seperate names?<br />
Now it's back to collage and catching up with the cyclops mermaid.<br />
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<br />Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-2967419420778296152013-06-01T22:18:00.001+10:002013-06-01T23:45:17.829+10:00Children Learn about the Art of Teesha MooreLast week The children in my Weird and Wonderful workshop were introduced to collage artist and art journaller extraordinaire Teesha Moore, <a href="http://www.teeshamoore.com/">http://www.teeshamoore.com/</a>.<br />
The group of 6 - 9 yr olds were shown the technique of collage, learnt what a journal was for, were shown some images of Teesha's work ,we talked about use of borders, colour, desins and doodling and lettering.<br />
Here are some of the great pieces of work the kids came up with in less than an hour.<br />
The mages have been manipulated using Picasa- saturation,heat map, or colour inversion.<br />
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<br />Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-15939384058514389722013-05-27T22:18:00.000+10:002013-05-27T22:24:52.488+10:00Weird & Wonderful Workshops-SurrealistsAn introduction to the Surrealists was in store for all the little kids at my Weird and Wonderful after-school workshops- we had a hoot of a time - littlies seem to relate to Surrealist notions.<br />
They are very comfortable with the game- play and nonsensical imagery.<br />
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We made a book each which contained our drawings of melting clocks, birdmen (our homage to Ernst), dreamlike and nonsense collages, "exsquisite corpse"-game flipbooks with crazy mismatched sentences, Magritte images with clouds in eyes etc.<br />
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One of the favourites of the afternoon was Dali with his daisy moustache.<br />
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Introducing young children to the art and ideas of well-known and not so well-known artists and art movements, creative ideas, techniques, cultural art,and a number of arty and crafty mediums is so creatively nourishing for them.<br />
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Lots of fun to be had!!<br />
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<br />Jan Kierzkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14158489183445050509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244861496467448539.post-80368918746858208502013-05-18T12:36:00.003+10:002013-05-18T12:36:45.340+10:00Epiphany GreenMeet Epiphany Green....<br />
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Another Lorelei muse doll I made-but I have decided to keep her because I am having so much fun in The Mermaid Circus!I thought I'd give myself a present.<br />
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There seems to have been a bit of a shift in my life lately.<br />
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I have just spent the last three months recovering from fairly hefty foot surgery , lost my job and decided on a whim to join an online course.</div>
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During the recuperation period I experienced the difficulties of having limited mobility and had a long, hard think about getting fit- so I need to put my lack of self-discipline in that area to the test.</div>
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I also read a few books during that time and came across <a href="http://marthabeck.com/product/finding-your-way-in-a-wild-new-world-reclaiming-your-true-nature/">Martha Beck's "Finding Your Way in a Wild New World"-</a>I got a lot from that book-the timing was perfect for me recognise some profound truths and brought some clarity back -where the last number of years I felt I was wallowing around in some muddy quagmire of confusion about what my purpose was.</div>
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I started to notice synchronicity again-strange little coincidences becoming more prevalent and so on.</div>
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I thought -"I need to play again"-so I switched on the computer and there it was (not sure how I found it) <a href="http://www.janedavenport.com/workshops/mermaid-circus/">Teesha Moore and Jane Davenport's Mermaid Circus online workshops-</a>well that was my chance to get a dose of Teesha's magic who I had admired for years! Jane Davenport might tempt me back into drawing again ! I need some whimsy in my life.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXxBR99LGcRrVl-PNIwPhxPSbBWexOSLF3tQrVW5rJ2nMbIKnTD1jj2NM89DBzeJHVBekaPmG8cNt9mXpxQUBnInYRRNzrJLeTh5kupxP7ngmYGMV7HwVSPnYvFqAcl7NnswjoQoj7-cKf/s1600/DSCF0393.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXxBR99LGcRrVl-PNIwPhxPSbBWexOSLF3tQrVW5rJ2nMbIKnTD1jj2NM89DBzeJHVBekaPmG8cNt9mXpxQUBnInYRRNzrJLeTh5kupxP7ngmYGMV7HwVSPnYvFqAcl7NnswjoQoj7-cKf/s640/DSCF0393.JPG" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsoOJwZuYTBmhW9PblRr5ezOTuK0DK8LYLw4WZwtiQz8qCq1zEde9VQRUWE4zT9HIioEqz81jN1cadXtOOE987bIIZhYZelrDnc6Mi916XZV5_e4doi1Fyn6oxFsf7XIL2BStCYqF4eLG/s1600/IMG_0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsoOJwZuYTBmhW9PblRr5ezOTuK0DK8LYLw4WZwtiQz8qCq1zEde9VQRUWE4zT9HIioEqz81jN1cadXtOOE987bIIZhYZelrDnc6Mi916XZV5_e4doi1Fyn6oxFsf7XIL2BStCYqF4eLG/s400/IMG_0002.jpg" width="216" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf6u9Kr7wIqA2Jf3nrsyPoqreZxH0rzX078CyA8j5ShOZ7pQ0Rb18epj_ze3HeVA0vgXL-bbg4M8a6EEf4L3KjADSocrZd0ppAVljp7VMNB_gC41HSGC1_zSo5VpJJZNGzekZLGlx9HOtu/s1600/2005_0401jannn0157.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf6u9Kr7wIqA2Jf3nrsyPoqreZxH0rzX078CyA8j5ShOZ7pQ0Rb18epj_ze3HeVA0vgXL-bbg4M8a6EEf4L3KjADSocrZd0ppAVljp7VMNB_gC41HSGC1_zSo5VpJJZNGzekZLGlx9HOtu/s320/2005_0401jannn0157.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>
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Well I have gained so much from playing around in the Mermaid Circus -it has been such fun.The facebook group is extra special and I am learning so many other things that are bi-products of what such magic, energy, experience and also newness brings.</div>
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During this I suddenly lost my job and have had to rush around creating my own work,putting myself out there which is always uncomfortable for me, but am finding a new sense of what my purpose is and that the next part of my journey is beginning-whatever that entails,it feels right.</div>
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