Tuesday, October 16, 2012

News from the desk of Sarah Maxey






We Can Create 2012

On 27th October I’ll be speaking at the We Can Create Conference in Auckland. I’ve chosen ‘Exit pursued by a bear’ as the title of my talk. It’s a stage direction from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and is going to serve as a metaphor for the mixed blessings of having to produce creative work to deadline. It’s also a gratuitous excuse to talk about bears. My talk will be peppered with images of my own work, both commissioned and self-initiated, along with some recent collaborations. I hope to see some of you there. They have just slashed the ticket price by half, so go and get one now.
What has its head at one end & its mouth at t’other?

Why, a river of course. After nearly a year in Europe I have just returned to New Zealand and I now live right near the mouth of a big river. At high tide I live by the sea—the waves lap my front steps—and at low tide I live on a riverbank. This is the view from my desk at high tide. Distracting? Yes, er, somewhat.

I rummaged in my storage unit instead of going out

and I found a small forgotten stash of my “i did this instead of going out” poster. You can buy one at the wonderful endemicworld, but be quick, there are not many left.

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