We had a great night at the Bi-annual ‘Hammer and Hand’ Exhibition..June 20th, this one the winter one .. our favourite !  with Mulled wine, Fire drum blazing.. (Dark !) .. good eats.. and a Crackin’ show by “Moondog Gypsy Blues Band” .. and then there were the works !  These are some of mine….Get over to Hammer and Hand Byron to have a look at all of the Collective members’ works… “EXHIBIT A”

“Bee Here Now”

“Bee Here Now” detail… We rely on the Bees for our well being.. they have come to rely on our husbandry to survive ..Our hand on the management of the ecology is destroying the Bees … a seemingly small link in the chain, but crucial to our survival.

“Bee Here Now”

“Wind up toy”

“I am my son, my mother, my father,I am born of myself
my own flesh sucked..And someone squeezed my heart
to make me go through my number. I was a wind-up toy
someone had dropped wound up into a world already
running down The world had been going on a long time already but it made no difference It was new it was like new I saw it shining and it shone in the sun and it spun in the sun and the skein it spun was pure light . My life was made of it , made of the skeins of light…”

From Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem ‘True Confessional’

Naked running Blue Wizard