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Peter Adams

Scientific oneness

July 7, 2005

This week, while I was finally oiling the third and littlest of the ‘Still-a-Life’ sculptures, I also happened to be reading an article in Resurgence magazine by Deepak Chopra that brought a new awareness to me about just what I was actually applying tung oil to: “….It is possible today to compute the total number [...]

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Two down, one to go

June 17, 2005

Whew! I have just finished the second of the ‘Still Lives’. All day today I have been trying to photograph this new piece in a way that reveals something of its sensual, tactile quality because this is primarily an object for touching, not just looking at as in a museum. However, after one hundred or [...]

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Still-a-Life

May 26, 2005

I can’t begin to tell you, dear reader, how much satisfaction I receive out of the sensate quality of nature. Every time I split open a long bean pod and find within an encased row of beautifully packaged beans all nestled together, I marvel at the wonder of it all. Nor, can I begin to [...]

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Easy living

April 21, 2005

Brian Che, the current resident Windgrove artist, and I have had a string of slow, easy autumn days; mostly still and sunny with plenty of quiet time to reflect upon and create our respective art. Looking through the window of Che’s studio (once I removed him), some of the smaller paintings progress along. Outside, a [...]

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Windgrove Laureates 2005

January 13, 2005

Windgrove Laureates 2005 Helen Gee (Tasmania, Australia) Wendell Berry (Kentucky, USA) Satish Kumar (England) Margaret Scott (Tasmania, Australia) Phillip Adams (NSW, Australia) Beverly Reeler (Zimbabwe) Mary Oliver (Massachusetts, USA) Pete Hay (Tasmania, Australia) It gives me great pleasure in announcing the above people as the Windgrove Laureates for 2005; people I personally feel have remained [...]

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Faces

November 11, 2004

When first exhibited at a Hobart gallery in April of 2003, the Ancestral Altar was sanded and polished as smooth and unblemished as a baby’s skin. Then I left it on top of a water tank for a year and a half. Yesterday, I re-oiled and applied a soothing balm onto the cracked and blotchy [...]

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Another year

September 20, 2004

Yesterday evening, just past sunset in fading light, I wheeled my red wheelbarrow back home and into the garden shed for the last time. This year’s tree planting and repair is finished. My palms are a bit sore from having pushed into the ground 3,000 bamboo stakes (even while wearing padded bicycle gloves). The usual [...]

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Nines and more

September 15, 2004

I was serving up stacks of pancakes this past weekend to a house full of children, dogs and happy parents when it dawned on me that this is the work I do best: being in service. Don’t know much about geology. Don’t know much trigonometry. But I do know that I love to serve. And [...]

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Who’s On Board?

August 19, 2004

Twenty five Australian wood artists (myself included) were invited to submit work for this year’s 2004 Tweed Wood Biennial; the exhibition’s brief being that the sculpture represent the artist’s interpretation of the theme “Re:Cycle”. The intention of the Tweed River Art Gallery was that the wood used for the sculpture should have already been used [...]

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A close encounter

June 20, 2004

Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End? There are things you can’t reach. But you can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of God. And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier. The snake slides away; the fish jumps, [...]

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