tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76043655260177768342024-03-23T03:14:52.654-07:00EurekaMichaelEurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-58444222847162414202024-03-06T15:46:00.000-08:002024-03-06T15:46:13.837-08:00Blake Prize Shortlist <p> Very pleased to be selected as a Finalist in the Blake Prize thanks to family friends and colleagues who support my art making </p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: OpenSansSemibold; letter-spacing: -0.3px;"><h1 aria-level="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{189}" paraid="315013549" role="heading" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.67em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: OpenSansBold;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE 68TH BLAKE ART PRIZE</span></strong></h1></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: OpenSansSemibold; letter-spacing: -0.3px;"><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Since 1951, The Blake Prize has engaged artists, nationally and internationally, with ideas of <strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: OpenSansBold;">spirituality</strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: OpenSansBold;">religion</strong>. The prize takes its name from William Blake, the world-famous 18th Century artist, and poet who threaded the religious and artistic throughout his practice. Building on this history, The 68th Blake Prize continues to encourage contemporary artists of varied styles and religious and spiritual allegiances to create significant works of art, which engage in conversations and negotiations concerning spirituality, religion and/or belief.</span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">I submitted the work Death of the Settler </span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><br /></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtCe5gsl-XuzAYMmyYKOfsI5lxCzDa8PuqMeIs7xnBW8G8gQKkTv3Cfx36Mb-Opqas2AM56RWJv5gr0fgvxK6swSkfChWiXAUwpcsOEDO1vY2_UICjDgaLCT2U3Eh4NSFypxknIEhJhl5Y9v1zKAlEwCDBcb835Ft5xMogEfuC4F6Ca2FhzNncT8vEC8c/s5665/OHANLON%20Deathof%20the%20Settler%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3777" data-original-width="5665" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtCe5gsl-XuzAYMmyYKOfsI5lxCzDa8PuqMeIs7xnBW8G8gQKkTv3Cfx36Mb-Opqas2AM56RWJv5gr0fgvxK6swSkfChWiXAUwpcsOEDO1vY2_UICjDgaLCT2U3Eh4NSFypxknIEhJhl5Y9v1zKAlEwCDBcb835Ft5xMogEfuC4F6Ca2FhzNncT8vEC8c/w367-h244/OHANLON%20Deathof%20the%20Settler%202023.jpg" width="367" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Death of the Settler Copyright Eureka O'Hanlon 2023 </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;">Death of the Settler references Holbein’s Body of the
Dead Christ. It was taken in a butcher’s shop in the
Goldfields town of Clunes, Victoria that has never been
renovated, near where my own ancestors settled in the
1800s. The image was taken on the lands of th<span style="background-color: white;">e </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal;">Dja Dja Wurrung</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3px;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>people It is part of my ongoing scrutiny of my Catholic and
Settler history through the metaphor of the male nude.
This image combines the contrary forces of desire and
death. The model is a local mechanic whose body reflects
a physically active life now posed at rest, the setting of a
butcher’s shop referencing Settler dominion over the land
and its inherent violence. My art is inspired by the work of
my late friend and mentor Rev Michael Bernard Kelly and
his seminal work “Seduced by Grace” that seeks to
reconcile queer desire with Catholic belief </span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3px;"><br /></span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3px;">Location thanks to Rod Spark </span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3px;">Model :Ross </span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieNVPNinyZmNGwKws9RL5NviqJQnXBHTw5VO318a-2pBHEigfmVNLnAR2N38DLKgrxn_wVH-GwMJNcueDO6YyAlbnRdzyLrcTN_BGSBGOUIKHaYpQuYtPcKjsWDxXo1hcp8MJa7BDMW9Lgp30WFlxTZlVBm1lWDSXRHDp40xc7Ivbvb3XV4Rk12gC5iDI/s3344/The_Body_of_the_Dead_Christ_in_the_Tomb,_and_a_detail,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="3344" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieNVPNinyZmNGwKws9RL5NviqJQnXBHTw5VO318a-2pBHEigfmVNLnAR2N38DLKgrxn_wVH-GwMJNcueDO6YyAlbnRdzyLrcTN_BGSBGOUIKHaYpQuYtPcKjsWDxXo1hcp8MJa7BDMW9Lgp30WFlxTZlVBm1lWDSXRHDp40xc7Ivbvb3XV4Rk12gC5iDI/s320/The_Body_of_the_Dead_Christ_in_the_Tomb,_and_a_detail,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The work will be on exhibition at the Casula Arts Centre Casula NSW Australia </span></p><p class="m_-8300008239159447070ydp5ff9169eyiv5877674812msonormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Exhibition Dates:</span></b><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Saturday 11<sup>th</sup> May – Sunday 7<sup>th</sup> July 2024<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-8300008239159447070ydp5ff9169eyiv5877674812msonormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Launch:</span></b><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Saturday 18<sup>th</sup> May 2024, 2 – 5pm</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-8300008239159447070ydp5ff9169eyiv5877674812msonormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p class="rvfs-2" data-rvfs="2" paraeid="{0203be8c-6438-4b46-b17e-d7d5984f8963}{195}" paraid="1825426286" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.3px; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p></div><p><br /></p>Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-34219491671651502972022-12-03T22:41:00.002-08:002022-12-04T22:24:44.885-08:00Dar Meso Artist Residency Tunisia <p><span style="font-size: large;"> Dar Meso is an international artists' residency in Tunis, Tunisia. I attended the residency for seven wonderful days in the last week of October 2022. For details and application forms see <a href="https://en.darmeso.com/" target="_blank">darmeso.com</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The residency is based in a former Convent with a wonderful garden in the Medina of Tunis the capital of Tunisia </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_11)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" color="rgb(var(--color_13))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="futura-lt-w01-light, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The residency describes itself like this </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_11)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" color="rgb(var(--color_13))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="futura-lt-w01-light, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_11)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" color="rgb(var(--color_13))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="futura-lt-w01-light, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Not only is it an international artist residency, Dar MESO is a training center, a debate venue and a gallery for artists coming from around the world.</span></i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_11)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" color="rgb(var(--color_13))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="futura-lt-w01-light, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Nestled in an old convent built for contemplation, DAR MESO gives to the artist a piece of nature in the middle of the city, a calm and exotic place that scales up innovation and fosters cultural exchange.</span></i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_11)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" color="rgb(var(--color_13))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="futura-lt-w01-light, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_11)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" color="rgb(var(--color_13))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="futura-lt-w01-light, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The residency is run by a charming and helpful couple Florence and Youseff. The former convent has four main wings over two stories including a kitchen on each floor plus a rooftop with amazing views of the Medina </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_11)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" color="rgb(var(--color_13))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="futura-lt-w01-light, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_11)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" color="rgb(var(--color_13))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="futura-lt-w01-light, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I mainly sketched - from the rooftop, the garden and the nearby Medina </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_11)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-right: var(--base-unit); place-content: stretch flex-start; position: relative;"><span class="_aap6 _aap7 _aap8" style="display: inline; position: relative;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _acan _acao _acat _acaw _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/darmeso_residency/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; appearance: none; background: none transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: var(--font-family-system); font-weight: var(--font-weight-system-semibold); list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-transform: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; width: auto;" tabindex="0">darmeso_residency</a></span></div></h2><div class="_a9zs" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="_aacl _aaco _aacu _aacx _aad7 _aade" color="rgb(var(--ig-primary-text))" face="var(--font-family-system)" style="display: inline; font-weight: var(--font-weight-system-regular); line-height: var(--system-14-line-height); margin: 0px;">During a week, we have been blessed to have <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz notranslate _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/eurekaartist/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">@eurekaartist</a> in <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/residency/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#residency</a> at <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/darmeso/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#darmeso</a>. Such a sensitive person and an open hearted <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/artist/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#artist</a> connected to himself. We can see that in his works. We had the chance to throw a nice intimate <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/exhibition/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#exhibition</a> for him with a wonderful brunch and wonderful people.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxzwgDbZEmss3TyrSqt2nz3bFsxmTtw7Lf_vQhIVR_-x7GA6gkPmovmIzXlvhiRisT_yU6amEbuThoHggN2aIGUOOqEEYwa0W63EubSSVtlvHY8WlxDPJkFEqEo2FOz5bB6o5asBHxaLH-YB6IN8uBsyj06Vc07Ur2S32_07SsBAEmKnXM--6NDrAp/s6000/IMG_0695.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;">I highly recommend this residency for self -motivated artists, Dar Meso is a safe place to explore the culture of Tunisia while in the company of other creatives . 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Such a sensitive person and an open hearted <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/artist/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#artist</a> connected to himself. We can see that in his works. We had the chance to throw a nice intimate <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/exhibition/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#exhibition</a> for him with a wonderful brunch and wonderful people.<br />Throwback with some photos and videos.</div></div></div></div></li></div></ul></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkCgbVo4WszIFBvo-PPcoksW9h_wb1wBatmfBBmGXLuPtTBinnstkcPq_4DMf1x1ITKeybuJs2JQ74RmRW_4z3-fuRLpMBJ5pmk2javdujTfWbOkgdKexRbhIf49fYYl91Tmf3wJSI4wZrgxYvArPJKnO-05sAN6X6XM8g9nDSADBA1DUTKl2rJkN/s1440/IMG_20221025_074919_991.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkCgbVo4WszIFBvo-PPcoksW9h_wb1wBatmfBBmGXLuPtTBinnstkcPq_4DMf1x1ITKeybuJs2JQ74RmRW_4z3-fuRLpMBJ5pmk2javdujTfWbOkgdKexRbhIf49fYYl91Tmf3wJSI4wZrgxYvArPJKnO-05sAN6X6XM8g9nDSADBA1DUTKl2rJkN/s320/IMG_20221025_074919_991.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxYONvlTYU5aalPFntH6jSzBISv0OC92YXXlSUMA2VFGLc1jAu8t4GqgO4RPWG5a_4D8csUo7Xsg6AwSoBq5j3LF2ZbAWzxR9bnxlgWGYWmd89SYb5mpM9X4dmWTHBZ0wc85cZAqbD6RFj5ebmA-LEYc_toCH8jsWUAkk5SC9dlfYwy-EHPd2QzOy/s3024/20221026_160035.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxYONvlTYU5aalPFntH6jSzBISv0OC92YXXlSUMA2VFGLc1jAu8t4GqgO4RPWG5a_4D8csUo7Xsg6AwSoBq5j3LF2ZbAWzxR9bnxlgWGYWmd89SYb5mpM9X4dmWTHBZ0wc85cZAqbD6RFj5ebmA-LEYc_toCH8jsWUAkk5SC9dlfYwy-EHPd2QzOy/s320/20221026_160035.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">asleep on my backpack </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-34649555468038359382020-11-23T01:30:00.006-08:002020-12-16T01:39:44.789-08:00Queer Saint Michael Bernard Kelly <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVCZpuZfI_c0VVKHTeStDG9xbENAIXeWG2gYk8RASZouQ017x2s0EdVncelgIiHa-MMsKaPrpP2jETdtxPEoXJxOcgC9Wm3frrcD6-yQTJZdnq9cpchUSgMoqPhqyzDjiyOK_3C2dXPM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="777" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVCZpuZfI_c0VVKHTeStDG9xbENAIXeWG2gYk8RASZouQ017x2s0EdVncelgIiHa-MMsKaPrpP2jETdtxPEoXJxOcgC9Wm3frrcD6-yQTJZdnq9cpchUSgMoqPhqyzDjiyOK_3C2dXPM/" width="265" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is my personal
tribute to Rev Dr Michael Bernard Kelly , my friend Michael Kelly who left this
world last Saturday <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wrote to him last week saying <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>T hank you for being the person who enlightened me - made
me realize I could be fully gay and fully spiritual and allowed me to draw on
my Catholic heritage with pride. You gave me the words and concepts and
confidence to express what I felt. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael was also a believer in the value of my art with all
if its ambitions and flaws – he was MC at <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my Scarlatta exhibition at the Convent in 2017
and went on to lead a ritual of cleansing in the convent cloister and we were
working this year on a project to represent visually the ideas of his landmark
erotic contemplative series . Michael also introduced me to the community of
Easton Mountain his home base during frequent stays lecturing and giving
retreats in the USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael lived a life where he believed in the Incarnation,
the Word made Flesh. There were aspects of Michael that were truly
saintly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he tried to engage his
nemesis Archbishop George Pell in conversation through the Rainbow Sash
movement and was rebuffed, he never once responded with any enjoyment or sense
of vindication when I would gleefully describe to him another step in the
cardinal’s trial and imprisonment. On the fleshy side he was also open to talk
about the joys of gay sex and appreciated a handsome and compassionate man as
much as any gay man!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Earlier this year Michael showed me the grave site at the
Sorrento cemetery where he will be shortly buried. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He chose a grave outside the denominational
section of the Cemetery, in the company of other outcasts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said to him “Mike well chosen it will make a lovely
site to visit in 100 years when the Catholic church repents of its treatment of
its gay members and you are an official LGBTIQ saint!”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He allowed himself a
modest smile. Recognition of his seminal role in forming a bridge between the
Christian and queer worlds will only increase over the years<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here is a quote from <span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;">Bernard of Clairvaux</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“With my mouth I touch
and worship Thee, With all the strength I have I cling to Thee, With all my
love I plunge my heart in Thee, My very life-blood would I draw from Thee,
Jesus, Jesus I draw me into Thee.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;">Thank you, Michael, for revealing what has been hidden in
plain sight, may you enjoy the embrace of your resurrected lover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>I am working on a book “Ecce Homo
Corona” of images done over the last few months. I wish I had the opportunity
to collaborate more closely with Michael but there are several images directly
inspired by the Erotic Contemplative ethos.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">l dedicate the book to you Michael, Friend, Father , Mentor
, Intellectual, Spiritual Director Brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I will keep you in my heart forever.. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;"><o:p> FUNERAL SERVICE 23RD NOVEMBER 2021 SORRENTO </o:p></span></p>Sorrento is a beautiful sea side town 100 kms south of Melbourne <p></p><p>Michael's service was held on a wet Monday morning - Michael had chosen a very humble postion at the outcasts section of the cemetery but recieved an upgrade of biblical dimensions when bones were discovered in his first choice grave.</p><p>Due to Covid 19 restrictions it was not possible to celebrate a requiem mass in a Church so the entire service was held grave side. In Australia we have a tradition of DIY ( Do It Yourslf ) and we realized quickly that the Kelly family are really good at this.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94eQVKViHftkGYPF5A4S3AQchzBOa1mRZJS5mQNL9M_5N_wJPtQfj3RZkHKfgLKVeubU4jU8-jmHeihVz1Jb7PjBF0MPtVgmpJlMShyi62USN6W2OAe2rIIEtMNE7a0P_bL4QFzDtBVc/s3648/IMG_8609.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2432" data-original-width="3648" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94eQVKViHftkGYPF5A4S3AQchzBOa1mRZJS5mQNL9M_5N_wJPtQfj3RZkHKfgLKVeubU4jU8-jmHeihVz1Jb7PjBF0MPtVgmpJlMShyi62USN6W2OAe2rIIEtMNE7a0P_bL4QFzDtBVc/s320/IMG_8609.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>The hearse arrived at the gates of the cemetery.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL7LJmSjNUU-iEUIEjGRC6mXdVMri4FudZGI6Eo0qrM7tVFbILz8d_XfAS3KX2vnFF0Kd0yQT9rrUgKExH0dr2wDQY81dc-YhcbgTyiAwlJrI-awcLVJTK4W2LxRg3Pgh0NPmWC2kisMc/s3648/IMG_8616.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2432" data-original-width="3648" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL7LJmSjNUU-iEUIEjGRC6mXdVMri4FudZGI6Eo0qrM7tVFbILz8d_XfAS3KX2vnFF0Kd0yQT9rrUgKExH0dr2wDQY81dc-YhcbgTyiAwlJrI-awcLVJTK4W2LxRg3Pgh0NPmWC2kisMc/s320/IMG_8616.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /> Michael was wrapped in white and laid out in an open wicker basket. He was escorted to the graveside by family members and friends from the Rainbow Sash movement . The rainbow flag was draped over the altar and the formalities began with a welcome by Michael's sister Noelene. <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Mike was very clear that he wanted the ritual to be planned and led by the family - with Noelene taking a key role.</span><p></p><p>Mother Irene Wilsom from the Emmaus Community, Father Barry Moran and Father John Rolley from the Old Catholics Church assisted the family. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rest in Peace Michael </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is the text from the Funeral Booklet </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4da68f59-7fff-42c2-4997-a3a8d9f50b4c"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 57.0762pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our Farewell Ritual </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 57.0762pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our Farewell Ritual </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.31059; margin: 0.891022pt 11.8141pt 0pt 15.7179pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for our brother and friend, </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Kelly</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 495px; overflow: hidden; transform: rotate(1.57rad); width: 353px;"><img height="495" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/IFJ7nga6lR5qyKWRNon47uC_ZylKM4G7Ix_Iq3bORH-sa8pG4kISmlmHlAYUq7ZCgIlEsPZmJlMcNgUpjJmMDfZNzdaG2sQ4IVgPOzx3BBHj8G5lS17L15-hQ9fuqQT9lmeC-isV" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="353" /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.31059; margin: 0.891022pt 11.8141pt 0pt 15.7179pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Bernard Kelly </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 135.183pt; margin-top: 7.89786pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Born 27 July 1954 </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 69.562pt; margin-top: 6.06531pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Born deeper into Mystery 14 November 2020 </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.7493; margin: 29.1961pt 56.1542pt 0pt 34.3724pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a very special day for us. The way we farewell Michael today expresses much of the way he lived. You are part of that. This celebration is also our gift to our brother, our mentor, our lover, our spokesperson, our priest, teacher, our friend. Please join us in making it beautiful and worthy of him.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1735pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Procession </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.930500030517578pt; margin-right: 50.993133544921875pt; margin-top: 5.56427001953125pt; margin: 5.56427pt 50.9931pt 0pt 21.9305pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.012001pt; text-indent: -0.012001pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael’s body will be brought in procession to the graveside by family and friends. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1505pt; margin-top: 29.6008pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Song</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Be Thou My Vision </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.9265pt; margin-top: 8.56592pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.3051pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">naught be all else to me, save that thou art-- </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.1611pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thou my best thought by day or by night, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.0651pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.9905pt; margin-top: 27.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Be thou my wisdom, thou my true word; </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.4131pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I ever with thee thou with me, Lord; </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.1611pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thou my great Father, and I thy true son; </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.1611pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1465pt; margin-top: 27.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 Be thou my battle shield, sword for the fight; </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.0411pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">be thou my dignity, thou my delight, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.1611pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thou my soul’s shelter, thou my high tow-er: </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.3531pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">raise thou me heav’n-ward, O Pow’r of my pow’r. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8585pt; margin-top: 27.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.1611pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thou mine inheritance, now and alway: </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.1611pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thou and thou only, first in my heart, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.4131pt; margin-top: 6.99601pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High King of heaven, my treasure thou art.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1825pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 High King of heaven, after victory won, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.2811pt; margin-top: 6.99597pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heav’n’s Sun! </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.4131pt; margin-top: 6.99603pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.4491pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">still be my vision, O Ruler of all </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0625pt; margin-top: 27.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.3051pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">naught be all else to me, save that thou art-- </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.1611pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thou my best thought by day or by night, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.0651pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8005pt; margin-top: 39.196pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Noelene </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0745pt; margin-top: 16.862pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.930500030517578pt; margin-right: 24.293121337890625pt; margin-top: 0.39599609375pt; margin: 0.395996pt 24.2931pt 0pt 21.9305pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.0719986pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.0719986pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael’s sister Maureen will share some introductory reflections and invite Bob Hinkley to call us to gather in the spirit of friendship Mike shared with us all. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 29.6008pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sharing of the Word </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.930500030517578pt; margin-right: 24.881134033203125pt; margin-top: 14.462005615234375pt; margin: 14.462pt 24.8811pt 0pt 21.9305pt; text-indent: 0.167999pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friends and family will share scripture readings that speak to them of Michael - his life, his work, his many gifts - offered so courageously and elegantly to the world. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0865pt; margin-top: 20.4701pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First Reading John 10:9-10</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Terry Walshe </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.96649932861328pt; margin-right: 28.324066162109375pt; margin-top: 6.0653076171875pt; margin: 6.06531pt 28.3241pt 0pt 21.9665pt; text-indent: 0.108002pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am the gate. Anyone who enters through me will be safe: they will go freely in and out and be sure of finding pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0745pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Reading Ephesians 3:14-19</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Rose Marie Prosser </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.954498291015625pt; margin-right: 39.543975830078125pt; margin-top: 6.0653076171875pt; margin: 6.06531pt 39.544pt 0pt 21.9545pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.108002pt; text-indent: -0.108002pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This, then, is what I pray, kneeling before our Creator, from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name: </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.63050079345703pt; margin-right: 22.602386474609375pt; margin-top: 6.070159912109375pt; margin: 6.07016pt 22.6024pt 0pt 21.6305pt; text-indent: 0.515999pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Out of infinite glory, may you be given the power, through God’s Spirit, for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth; until knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled with the utter fullness of God. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.5945pt; margin-top: 34.8701pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Musical Interlude: Ashokan Farewell </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.9425pt; margin-top: 29.196pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Third Reading Song of Songs 2:10-13, 16a: </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Will Day </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.798500061035156pt; margin-right: 26.969207763671875pt; margin-top: 6.0653076171875pt; margin: 6.06531pt 26.9692pt 0pt 21.7985pt; text-indent: 0.132pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My beloved lifts up his voice, he says to me, ‘Come then, my love, my lovely one, come. For see, winter is past, the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth. The season of glad songs has come, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.822498321533203pt; margin-right: 31.373199462890625pt; margin-top: 0.400787353515625pt; margin: 0.400787pt 31.3732pt 0pt 21.8225pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the cooing of turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree is forming its first figs and the blossoming vines give out their fragrance. Come then, my love, my lovely one, come. My Beloved is mine, and I am his. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0865pt; margin-top: 20.4701pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fouth Reading Psalm 40: 8,10-11</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Noelene Kelly </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1225pt; margin-top: 6.06532pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Here I am! I am ready!’ </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.63050079345703pt; margin-right: 29.632049560546875pt; margin-top: 6.0653076171875pt; margin: 6.06531pt 29.632pt 0pt 21.6305pt; text-indent: 0.444pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have never kept your righteousness to myself, but have spoken of your faithfulness and saving help; I have made no secret of your love and faithfulness in the Great Assembly. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0625pt; margin-top: 20.4701pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prayers of the Community: Peter</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eucharist </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0.461975pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bread broken and shared </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.822498321533203pt; margin-right: 31.072052001953125pt; margin-top: 14.462005615234375pt; margin: 14.462pt 31.0721pt 0pt 21.8225pt; text-indent: 0.132pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sharing of eucharist was central to Michael’s life. We learn again the depths of ‘presence’ and ‘sacrament’ as we share this bread with one another and, in new ways, with him - and with all our ancestors in faith. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.822498321533203pt; margin-right: 24.531951904296875pt; margin-top: 14.800811767578125pt; margin: 14.8008pt 24.532pt 0pt 21.8225pt; text-indent: 0.228001pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barry Moran of the Catholic tradition, John Rolley of the Old Catholic tradition, and Irene Wilson who, with John and Michael, led the Emmaus Community at Abbotsford Convent, will lead us in this sharing of the consecrated bread of eucharist. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.72650146484375pt; margin-right: 22.781219482421875pt; margin-top: 14.800811767578125pt; margin: 14.8008pt 22.7812pt 0pt 21.7265pt; text-indent: 0.275997pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Distribution of Communion: </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We invite all to share this sacrament with us. Please wait until all have received so that we can eat eucharist together. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1505pt; margin-top: 29.6008pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Song: Breathe on me Breath of God </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.9265pt; margin-top: 8.56586pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 O Breathe on me, O Breath of God, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 33.2571pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fill me with life anew, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that I may love the things you love, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and do what you would do. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.9905pt; margin-top: 27.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 O Breathe on me, O Breath of God, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> until my heart is pure, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.99603pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> until my will is one with yours, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to do and to endure.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1465pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 O Breathe on me, O Breath of God, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.99597pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> My will to yours incline </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.99603pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> until this selfish part of me </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> glows with your fire divine. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8585pt; margin-top: 27.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 O Breathe on me, O Breath of God, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so I shall never die </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but live with you the perfect life </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.6185pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for all eternity. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1365pt; margin-top: 29.596pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prayer after Communion </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1365pt; margin-top: 31.8699pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prayer of Commendation and Farewell </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0385pt; margin-top: 28.6352pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barry </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.702499389648438pt; margin-right: 33.892059326171875pt; margin-top: 6.0652923583984375pt; margin: 6.06529pt 33.8921pt 0pt 21.7025pt; text-indent: 0.108002pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With faith in Life, we reverently bring the body of our brother to be buried in its human imperfection. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.60649871826172pt; margin-right: 28.790802001953125pt; margin-top: 0.400787353515625pt; margin: 0.400787pt 28.7908pt 0pt 21.6065pt; text-indent: 0.204002pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We give thanks for the man we have known and loved in this human vessel of clay. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.810501098632812pt; margin-right: 52.467987060546875pt; margin-top: 0.400787353515625pt; margin: 0.400787pt 52.468pt 0pt 21.8105pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.203999pt; text-indent: -0.203999pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We now give it back to the Earth. Michael needs it no more. We reverence it for the love we have known through it. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.7745pt; margin-top: 20.4701pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.822498321533203pt; margin-right: 34.541229248046875pt; margin-top: 6.065299987792969pt; margin: 6.0653pt 34.5412pt 0pt 21.8225pt; text-indent: 0.108002pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jo and Maria will bless Michael’s body with water. All life on this planet is nourished by the gift of water. Jesus used it powerfully as a symbol of Life and renewal, of healing and transformation. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0745pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Incense </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.83449935913086pt; margin-right: 32.682342529296875pt; margin-top: 6.0653076171875pt; margin: 6.06531pt 32.6823pt 0pt 21.8345pt; text-indent: 0.264pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter will now give Michael a good dose of incense. All that exists is holy. This body - Michael’s body - is holy and worthy of honour. We have known so much and been given much through this body. We reverence it as we prepare to lay it down. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0385pt; margin-top: 20.4702pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barry</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.930500030517578pt; margin-right: 41.702789306640625pt; margin-top: 6.0653076171875pt; margin: 6.06531pt 41.7028pt 0pt 21.9305pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.18pt; text-indent: -0.18pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael, we are with you, and today, with joy and with sorrow, we send you on your way with a loving farewell. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.822498321533203pt; margin-right: 71.15078735351562pt; margin-top: 14.80078125pt; margin: 14.8008pt 71.1508pt 0pt 21.8225pt; text-indent: 0.132pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The journey that began 66 years ago in Middle Park reaches its fulfillment today as you pass into the arms of love and transformation. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.810501098632812pt; margin-right: 48.641204833984375pt; margin-top: 14.800811767578125pt; margin: 14.8008pt 48.6412pt 0pt 21.8105pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.264pt; text-indent: -0.264pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We call on all those who have gone before us, on the whole community of Life, to welcome you - fully and joyfully - into the ‘mysterious cosmic dance’. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8345pt; margin-top: 14.8008pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go forward now, Christian soul! </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8345pt; margin-top: 6.99597pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May the angels lead you into paradise. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8345pt; margin-top: 6.996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May the martyrs come to welcome you. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.7493; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.654499053955078pt; margin-right: 62.846771240234375pt; margin-top: 6.996002197265625pt; margin: 6.996pt 62.8468pt 0pt 21.6545pt; text-indent: 0.18pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May all the saints lead you, with rejoicing into the holy city where we will meet one day in the presence of our God. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.1925pt; margin-top: 24.103pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Committal </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(As Michael’s body is being lowered) </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0385pt; margin-top: 14.462pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barry </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.702499389648438pt; margin-right: 45.650787353515625pt; margin-top: 3.2305908203125pt; margin: 3.23059pt 45.6508pt 0pt 21.7025pt; text-indent: 0.372002pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having known and loved Michael, we come now to give his body back to the Earth.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.9305pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael, into the dark warmth of the Earth </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8345pt; margin-top: 0.395996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALL We lay you down </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 22.0745pt; margin-top: 14.796pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Into the arms of your ancestors </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8345pt; margin-top: 0.395996pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALL We lay you down </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.83449935913086pt; margin-right: 96.05075073242188pt; margin-top: 14.795989990234375pt; margin: 14.796pt 96.0508pt 0pt 21.8345pt; text-indent: 0.240002pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Into the great cycle of living and dying and rising again </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All We lay you down </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.83449935913086pt; margin-right: 28.180023193359375pt; margin-top: 14.800811767578125pt; margin: 14.8008pt 28.18pt 0pt 21.8345pt; text-indent: 0.0960007pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May the Earth cover and protect this treasure which we now place in her care. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8345pt; margin-top: 0.400787pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALL May the God of Life gather you into fullness and joy. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.786502838134766pt; margin-right: 37.959991455078125pt; margin-top: 14.7960205078125pt; margin: 14.796pt 37.96pt 0pt 21.7865pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.0239983pt; text-indent: -0.0239983pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We give thanks for the depth of life and love we have shared with Michael. We give thanks for how we have been changed because of him. May we carry his legacy forward. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.9305pt; margin-top: 0.400787pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May we continue to speak his name. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8345pt; margin-top: 14.796pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALL Amen </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 21.8105pt; margin-top: 14.796pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Noelene: Invitation to fill Michael’s grave.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.7136; margin: 0pt 50.5474pt 0pt 51.9651pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for sharing this day with us and for making this such a rich and personal celebration of Michael’s life. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.7136; margin: 15.8432pt 50.1206pt 0pt 51.594pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael said many times that, as a gesture of thanks for all the personal and practical support he received throughout his illness, he wanted to shout us all lunch at a ‘tasteful’ Sorrento venue. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 15.8432pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please join us on the West Deck of </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 7.662pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Baths Cafe/Restaurant at 1pm </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.7136; margin: 7.66211pt 82.8373pt 0pt 84.3118pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to share food and drink and memories. See you there!</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 12.7748pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael was to me </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 8.799802780151367pt; margin-right: 35.01118469238281pt; margin-top: 0.33001708984375pt; margin: 0.330017pt 35.0112pt 0pt 8.7998pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.824997pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">always a friar minor in his concern for the disenfranchised, the abandoned, the sick, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 26.9903pt; margin-top: 0.333984pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the misunderstood, the persecuted. He was their champion. This concern extended to the earth in deep appreciation for our home. Kevin ofm </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt 27.5993pt 0pt 6.56171pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘O captain, my captain’. Mick was our ‘Dead Poets Society’ teacher …..and later, our ‘gay Gandhi’. Anthony </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18.3417pt; margin-top: 23.7119pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lord brought </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.329987pt 32.774pt 0pt 11.017pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">people into his life like a flock. We were so hugely varied but </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.334015pt 27.2811pt 0pt 5.68391pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">united in our friendship with Michael. Kevin </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt 2.59235pt 0pt 4.00867pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love the memory of having you in my home in Jerusalem for that Advent gathering. I remember looking around at the room and realizing there were almost more non-straight people there than straight people, but that none of them knew about each other. They had told me alone, because they knew I was “safe”. Just like you were safe for me. Carrie</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 22.4763pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 305px; overflow: hidden; width: 407px;"><img height="305" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZoymJCSrRG35eBnRseWBtdL6CCkF5dJa_j9XVpYN53SAtPTr6SyUMqgrsv_dty8LAKChw9Ga1aetXf2O0V3_1D814RgZVyixmLghPJPHAr1uR6vADq5BKDFb-szlBulXtH7b8ooS" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="407" /></span></span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was truly a </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0.330002pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gift from God who showed so many a way to have a truly deeper relationship with the Creator. I </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0.334pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will always treasure my fraternal </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0.333992pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">relationship with Michael. Dennis </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was a great blessing in my life. If there is any consolation in his death, it is in the fact that his work will continue to inspire, guide, and console so many for years to come. Bryan </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 71.7917pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am joyful that Michael’s decades of faithfulness and audacity are soon to be rewarded in the peace that </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0.334pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">passeth all understanding. Shalom, good friend, and Godspeed. Jay </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I remember </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0.330002pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael at my wedding with </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0.333984pt;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tom. After the readings and being interviewed by RTE television, he has his tie off and is in great form on the dance floor. Brendan </span></p><div><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tribute by friend Will Day read out at the funeral </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Some Thoughts about Michael Kelly.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">As our queer Godfather North American poet
and mystic Walt Whitman reminded us: We contain multitudes...and Michael, like
most of us has many aspects. I'd like to say a little about a couple of those
which I greatly appreciate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We first met at a cafe by the sea in Elwood
about 25 years ago, one of many meetings in cafes overlooking Michael's beloved
Port Phillip Bay. As we parted he said 'Lets stay in touch, its always good to
meet another contemplative.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I wasn't sure that I identified with that
label but Michael <i>knew</i> he had a contemplative heart. Although he had his
insecurities and doubts Michael had a confidence, a pride and dignity about who
he was, about his calling, and his mission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And he extended this dignity, pride and confidence to include
his queer community: he insisted we be respected, and he was indignant at any
affront to us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">He was, and is, in so many ways our
champion. And I believe that conviction, that self belief and belief in his community was anchored
in his contemplative heart. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Part of Michael's consciousness, it seemed
to me, was abiding in, being nourished and energised by very deep pools... ...all those hours spent wandering the lonely
coastal beaches, times alone in prayer and reflection (and at times great
struggle), countless hours sitting by himself in a cafe, sipping coffee and quietly gazing out at the waters of the
Bay... <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In that little contemplative classic 'The
Cloud of Unknowing' the author tells us to 'Leave my contemplatives alone.
Leave them to their sitting, resting and enjoying, you don't know what is
happening to them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">One of the precious things about Michael
was that he both abided in those depths and worked deeply in our ordinary
world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I'd like to mention a couple of small but
telling examples of Michael's deep work,
but also of the great, mysterious Love that lies at the heart of our lives,
that Michael was inspired by, and that dances up through us and out into the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">*I found it very moving to hear my dear old
friend Tricia describe Michael's visit to her elderly mother's hospital bed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Tricia's mother had lived a very long and
good life but was agitated and anxious as she approached death, and her family,
gathered around her in the hospital were also anxious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Most of the family had never met Michael.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Tricia describes how Michael entered the
room, sat beside her dying mother, took her hand, and together they began
praying the rosary. Tricia told me that everyone settled and her mother relaxed
into a deep peace. When it was time for Michael
to leave she didn't want to let go of his hand. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">After Michael had left, Tricia's brother
who she describes as a 'bah humbug athiest', turned to her, amazed, saying;
“Who was that guy?!!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I'm reminded of the first line of the prayer of Michael's beloved Francis of
Assisi; 'Make me an instrument of your peace.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">*About 10 years ago I was at a Radical
Faeries gathering at the Abbotsford Convent where I got talking with a chap, a
gay man. I asked him if he had read the
book 'Seduced By Grace' by Michael Kelly. There was a pause after which he
said; “Yesterday morning I was sitting in a cafe reading that book, and
weeping.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I wonder how many people, and how many gay
men, have been deeply moved or brought
to tears by Michael's writing, his workshops, his liturgies or conversations?
Those tears, as far as I can see, are
holy tears; tears of cleansing, of
healing, of bringing in the new, of reclaiming life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Michael's work reverberates and ripples out
and I believe it will continue to do so. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">*In 2009 the World Parliament of Religions
met in Melbourne, over 6000 people attended and
hundreds of talks and events were
offered, centred around the Exhibition Centre in Southbank. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Michael saw an early draft of the program
and at that time there were no LGBTI events offered. Michael immediately went
to work to address what to him was a completely disrespectful omission. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">On a cloudy Saturday morning Michael,
myself and two others sat in a reasonably sized room preparing the session. I
thought perhaps a handful of people would show up; it was a Saturday, the venue
was very busy with about 30 other sessions scheduled at the same time as ours. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">But our session was packed and very lively,
with people standing at the back. We heard story after story of grief and hurt
but the room was filled with joy and a kind of bubbling delight because we had
gathered together, scores of queer folk from all over the world, acknowledging
and sharing our religious and spiritual stories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Conversations were had, connections were
made, the channels of healing and change were enlivened and a whole new set of
reverberations were set in motion. Thanks to Michael Kelly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">How often over the past 30 years has a
version of this pattern been repeated: Michael's seed, once planted, sprouts
and flourishes thereby enabling other seeds
to be planted, to sprout and to grow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Michael died last Saturday morning and I
heard the news on the Sunday afternoon but when I sat to meditate on Saturday
evening, and began to include Michael in my prayers, as so many of us have been
doing over the months, I was surprised by the sense of an open, clear, clean space and the definite
impression that this man did not need my prayers, that he was completely ok.
The same thing happened on the Sunday morning. When I heard on Sunday afternoon
that Michael had died it all made sense. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So in the spirit of that experience, and in
acknowledgment of Michaels request, his insistence, that we ought embrace and
celebrate beautiful gritty eros in both its earthiness and its Divinity, I
would like to close with these lines of joyous arrival, of love and Springtime
from the Song of Solomon:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">My beloved spoke, and said unto me,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">rise
up my love, my fair one, and come
away.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">the flowers appear on the earth;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">and the time of the singing of birds is
come. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">And the voice of the turtle is heard in
our land;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">the fig tree putteth forth her green figs,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">and the vines with the tender grape give
a good smell.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Arise my love, my fair one, and come
away.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">My beloved is
mine, and I am his. Alleluia<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I already miss Michael, and yet he is still
here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">N.B. I was that radical faerie Will refers to, crying at the cafe reading Michael's book with the joy of finally being understood </div><p></p>Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.8136276 144.9630576-68.033720514622814 109.80680760000001 -7.5935346853771719 -179.8806924tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-66856888822964758252019-07-29T02:07:00.000-07:002020-01-14T21:44:37.475-08:00Under the Dome of Heaven Crete to Georgia 2019 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="color: #222222;">Exhibition by Eureka "Under the Dome of Heaven" Midsumma Festival 2020 </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Venue: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tacit Galleries <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">123a Gipps St Collingwood,
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Midsumma to share his queer exploration of the male portrait and of the
spiritual traditions of eastern and central Europe. His subjects include queer men
who took risks to sit for his photography and drawings <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> As he spent time this summer drawing churches
and mosques in Greece Slovakia Poland Germany Georgia and Turkey, he became aware
that most religions in the region do not accept queer men, Eureka began to ask
“Who is included under the Dome of Heaven?
The exhibition comprises photographs and drawings in response to this
question. Eureka was inspired by the Greek poet Cavafy, the Greek visual artist
Yannis Tsaroukis and the Polish artist</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0d0d0d;">Krzysztof
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and</span> his work also pays homage to them in both subject matter and colour
choices. Expect to see something
different, be prepared for proud male nudity. All works are for sale as one-off
drawings or limited-edition prints</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Eureka
(Michael James O’Hanlon) is an artist and queer activist who has completed
artist<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk505778019">s</a>’ residencies in Berlin in 2014, Venice in
2016, USA in 2017, Spain in 2018 and Greece in 2019. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk23252720"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a queer artist my mission is to
find and expose those things hidden in plain sight for example the
homo-eroticism in much Christian art. In
the world I am creating with queer men we proudly claim our place Under the Dome
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<b style="color: #222222;">My meandering Summer of 2019 through Crete Athens Bratislava Berlin </b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Leipzig</b></span><b style="color: #222222;"> </b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Krakow</b></span><b style="color: #222222;"> Wroclaw Warsaw and Georgia the Country </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hope your road is a long one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May there be many summer mornings when,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with what pleasure, what joy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you enter harbours you’re seeing for the first time;<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Keep Ithaka always in your mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Arriving there is what you’re destined for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But don’t hurry the journey at all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Better if it lasts for years,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so you’re old by the time you reach the island,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without her you wouldn’t have set out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She has nothing left to give you now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-p-cavafy" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #ca2017; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">C. P. Cavafy</a>, “Ithaca” from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/C-P-Cavafy-Collected-Poems/dp/0691015376" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #ca2017; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px;">C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems</em></a> (Princeton University Press, 1975). Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Translation Copyright © 1975, 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This poem by queer Greek poet C.P.Cavafy has inspired me throughout my meandering journeys in the European spring and summer of 2109, beginning in Crete with an artists residency with Julienne at Event Horizions see.<a href="https://dolphinwilding.com/artist.php?section_id=45&element_id=117" target="_blank">Artist in Residence Crete</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had been in Athens the year before and seen some magnificent icons from Crete in the Byzantine Museum, their beautiful pinks reds and golds inspiring me to seek out a residency there. I learnt that Crete was run by the Venetians for several centuries and the ikon painters had synthesized elements of catholic and orthodox styles, the most famous being El Greco who grew up on Crete and worked in Venice and Rome before settling in Spain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> There is some evidence El Greco was gay, addressed in this entertaining podcast <a href="https://player.fm/series/gay-of-the-day-profiling-notable-lgbt-people-from-history/gay-of-the-day-37-el-greco-el-homo" target="_blank">El Greco Gay</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">I organized a few days in Athens on my way to Crete and visited the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YannisTsarouchisFoundation/" target="_blank">Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation</a>. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Yannis Tsarouchis, 1910-1989, was an important 20th-century Greek painter, whose work moved in two main directions: toward the orientalist and sensual, with strong influences from Matisse, and toward the ancient Greek ideal as expressed by the Renaissance and the Baroque movements, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "crimson text" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The foundation is located in Yannis' purpose built home and studio. While there are insufficient funds to house original works there in museum conditions you get a terrific idea of how he developed his work </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So here is the dilemma I want to address in my work - the most important modern Greek poet and Painter are both clearly attracted to men and arguably the most important Greek contributor to Western Art was gay and yet the country is still governed largely by homophobic sentiments fueled by the Orthodox Church and conservative politicians</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I want to start by copying some of the poses of Tsaroukis using photo-montage as the medium rather than painting . I discover he poses the figure most beautifully.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Julienne the Director at Events Horizon Crete artist residency found me a model Jean and I collect textures from the local landscape using the same palette Tsaroukis did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tsaroukis arranges multiple figures in space, an ability I am working on since last years breakthrough piece of mine "Nightwatch"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have worked with a model in Poland to develop some multi figure compositions as a homage to Tsaroukis These are works in progress and I still have many technical issues to resolve</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My residency was about a queer exploration
of the male portrait and of the Christian tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with field trips to Cretan sites, drawing
en plein air and inside churches, photography and life drawing. For more details
about the residency see my Testimonial for Event Horizon <a href="https://dolphinwilding.com/article_detail/43/121/72.html">https://dolphinwilding.com/article_detail/43/121/72.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Left Greece for Berlin via
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the Krystof Jung exhibition at the Schwules Museum c<a href="https://www.schwulesmuseum.de/ausstellung/krzysztof-jung-zeichnungen/?lang=en">https://www.schwulesmuseum.de/ausstellung/krzysztof-jung-zeichnungen/?lang=en</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Last Winter my friend and neighbour </div>
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the rest of that cold winter<br />
I was warm twice, knowing I was cared for </div>
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In early summer he visited and I drew him in his hat, no clothes, his hat protecting his English skin from becoming pinker </div>
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He was in fine form building his new home by himself </div>
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It is Autumn, winter is approaching I will soon leave for Europe<br />
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Each log I place on the fire I reflect on how his, and my days are numbered.<br />
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I am leaving tomorrow. I ring a former neighbour who says “he is dead”. I had always hoped he would beat it with his huge personal and financial reserves<br />
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At the last minute I pack the portrait I have painted of him – I will take him on my adventures and live my life with no regrets in his honour </div>
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-79207129191713289332019-02-27T21:45:00.001-08:002020-02-02T22:06:37.027-08:00A Gay Romance <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For a long time now I have been trying to write a gay romance. Several years ago I stayed with my son in a hotel in West Wyalong a country town in outback New South Wales Australia<br />
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There was a stand alone bathroom with a lockable door, big green bath and a 1930s style pedestal wash basin. I had an overwhelm<br />
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ing feeling that two men had experienced a powerful love for each other in that place<br />
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I did some on-line research and came up with two characters Richard a former RAAF pilot and Tom a trainee doctor at the local hospital. Here is how I have imagined their story, drawing freely on my own family history of being publicans and my childhood years in country towns in the late 50s and 60s . feedback welcome<br />
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THE BALCONY ROOMS<br />
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<u>The
Balcony Rooms<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Tom had the sort of looks that men and women took to without
being threatened by. He was a redhead and redheads have their own type of beauty.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although he was only 5’7” he was well-built with strong calves
and powerful hamstrings, the product of success in schoolboy tennis. Tom was a
scholarship boy at Xavier who had gone on to do medicine. He had come to the
town as a locum doctor and been made so welcome by the townspeople that when a
medical officer position came up at the Base Hospital he had applied for it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Richard was blessed with the trifecta- 6’2”, dark Irish
looks with a high forehead from a hairline that was gently receding as he aged,
celtic steel blue eyes with the added
feature of lips that were a deep red . Everyone noticed when he entered a room. Tom envied
Richard his height –one aspect of good looks age could not so easily diminish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Richard was a pilot
who had survived the RAF. After
Australia had been invaded by the Japanese in the last war the government had
decided that every square mile of Australia would be mapped from the air. This
hot but friendly town was in the middle of his patch, an area the size of Great
Britain and Germany combined. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Hotel had been renovated between the Wars in Arte Moderne
style –in the streamlining of the facade only the corner suite had been left
with a balcony. As it was at the edge of
the commercial district there were no other two story buildings to obscure its
view of the river or threaten its privacy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bert the publican of the Royal Mail Hotel and his wife Mae
had that morning left the small suite of rooms on the corner of the Hotel to
take a house in River St. After years of
hard work the business was thriving and they no longer needed to live on site. There
was a large bedroom with a wash basin, a sitting room and the balcony, facing
the morning sun and providing a cool breeze off the river in the evening. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tom asked Richard casually – do you want to get that corner
suite together? Richard felt a wave of excitement and anxiety at the prospect
rise up from his balls and put colour on his cheeks. He agreed- saying it
shouldn’t cost any more than the sum of their individual rooms put together
and would give them a table for their frequent card games.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They had met one unexpectedly warm day last October<o:p></o:p></div>
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Richard was forced to
make an emergency landing in the only straight and even place available – the
main street of a small town some 160 Miles out. He pushed the plane to the
side of the one horse and cart fire station, hitched back to town and waited at
the hotel while the Department sent a mechanic and parts to fix his plane. <o:p></o:p><br />
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One week later he was making the rounds of people in the bar
seeing if anyone was heading out in his direction. Tom had just booked into the
pub-he had purchased a V8 Customliner on the strength of his new job at the
hospital and was keen to give it a stretch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bert packed them a couple of beers they wrapped in wet
newspaper and Mae made them sandwiches. They
left around noon and soon found themselves warming up in the heat. About half
way there they passed a deep bend in the river that Tom remembered from his
locum.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Richard took off his war issue leather jacket and pants to
reveal a long pale body tanned only from the neck up. Tom dropped his khaki
shorts and ran quickly to the river – he duck dived deeply–looking down he
could see patterns made by the sun on the stony bottom of the riverbank,
looking up he could see Richard floating
head down arms out taking in the coolness of the river. He noticed Richard’s manhood was undiminished despite the cold water. Afterwards
they lay sunbathing behind some large rocks, the beer the sunshine the cool
water and the complicity of their nakedness slowly loosening their tongues. <o:p></o:p><br />
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When they arrived to pick up the plane the publican had
opened up the front parlour and prepared them a large dinner of lamb and roast
veggies. He had rented out a room to the Department mechanic and the paper from
the nearest regional centre had even sent a reporter out to cover the story
–all in all a better week than he had in a while. It was really getting warm by
this stage -they went upstairs to the balcony drinking a Rutherglen red that
the publican had kept from before the war and looking out over the wheat fields
and the silos. When Richard had wiped the claret from his mouth with the heavy
napkin Tom was reminded of the priests he had seen cleaning themselves up from
the altar wine, before facing the people for the farewell blessings.<o:p></o:p><br />
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In the heat of that summer they stayed in Coogee on the
beachfront in a hotel frequented by local service men. Tom had been surprised
to find Richard had booked them into a double not a twin room – it was the only
one available he had said..<o:p></o:p></div>
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Richard’s company gave Tom
a deep sense of hope, of feeling special that he was no longer alone His
dark good looks promised oceans of reassurance – he knew Richard enjoyed his
company as much as he enjoyed Richard’s. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They decided Richard would speak to Bert about the balcony room.
Bert had been in the navy in the First World War and the home guard in the Second.
Richard was a man’s man and Bert was
fond of him. He caught Bert in the mid
afternoon –always the best time. Bert<b> </b>started
drinking about 2 – reached his peak for the time between 4 and 6 when half the
town drank at his pub –and spent the evening drinking with the boarders –
school teachers, bank clerks and other men like Richard and Tom with no family
in town and no wife to care for them.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>Bert I was wondering about the balcony rooms now you and Mae have moved
out – do you have any plans for them? <o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<i><b>Clean them up a bit and rent them out. </b><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Tom and I were thinking we could share some digs for a while. <o:p></o:p></i><br />
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He looked up at Richard with a slightly puzzled look and
then said with half a smile on his moustache clad lip. <i><o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<i><b>There is a double bed
in there now Mae and I brought a new one. I will replace it with 2 single </b><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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In matter of fact tone Richard said <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Don t bother Bert, it
will be fine as it is. We’ve been mates
for awhile <o:p></o:p></i><br />
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Bert knew from his time in the Navy there were many ways men
could be together-having someone special that’s what counted. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<i><b> OK that’s settled you can move in Saturday. Go
and get Tom and we’ll have a beer on it before the crowd shows up </b><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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That Sunday morning was spent reading papers on the balcony
while the church bells from each denomination pealed in the background. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Every morning Tom had the ineffable joy of lying in bed seeing
his Richard washing himself awake at the washbasin, his lean body now
developing a deep all-over tan. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The Measure of a Man </h2>
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Being able to judge distances mattered a great deal to
Richard. He lived (or died) by this ability and others too depended on his
skills – each moment he was awake he was constantly estimating distances.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Richard now liked to keep his distance from other men;
preferring solitude to company that would get too close and then be lost to to
him <o:p></o:p></div>
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Richard had been sent home to Sydney from the RAF base in
England. He was living in Randwick Barracks while he worked out if he would stay
in the RAAF or find some other way to keep flying.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was a brooding close-in Sydney morning with a low sky. He
needed some exercise to keep to his flying weight. The only thing he had to do all day was turn
up at the officers’ mess at 1800 hours <o:p></o:p></div>
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Passing Randwick race course he could see the ocean a couple
of miles away <o:p></o:p></div>
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As he walked he remembered the
names of all those Boys he had lost.<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 130%;"> </span></i>19 boys from his home town had
perished flying, boys he had swum with in the River in summer or played footie
with in the winter. There were many others he had been close, to including the
6 members of his crew who had perished when someone else took his place in the
final stages of the war <o:p></o:p></div>
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One friend Jack, a handsome
lad with shining eyes and black curly hair that escaped his helmet had shown
him the letter they all had to write to their next of kin. He remembered one line Jack had written to his
mother “There is nothing like the element of danger to seal a friendship”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How hard it was to forget
friends he had wanted to keep for his lifetime!<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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He remembered packing up Jack’s things when he had not come
back from a mission over Holland, especially the rosary beads that had failed
to protect him. There would be someone else in this bed tomorrow night. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Survival was a mixture of luck and skill – a lot would be
killed in their first five missions before they knew how to defend
themselves but even experienced officers
with medals to prove it were shot down.. They would all be in the mess together
before takeoff, 8 hours later there were 35 missing <o:p></o:p></div>
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During the war Richard had learned to just keep going
whatever happened to those around him. He had been postponing his grief until
he had the solitude to deal with it. Now he began to allow himself to remember
- one name every 100 steps was his rosary of grief <o:p></o:p></div>
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He was not done when
he arrived in Coogee. Passing the convent school on his left and the faded
apartments on his right he walked out onto the Coogee concourse<o:p></o:p></div>
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The concourse was a grand sweep of beach. On the left was
the walk to Clovelly along the cliff tops, he walked right to the Sea Baths.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Paying Tuppence to enter plus threepence for a towel and
cossie he pushed through the rusted turnstile. There was a European looking man
sitting naked in the change room catching whatever sun he could find. Richard
changed awkwardly under the stranger's gaze bending lower then he needed to
when changing into his cossie and turning his back while he carefully folded
his uniform<o:p></o:p></div>
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When he emerged from his dive he felt warm soft rain falling
on his head and shoulders as the rest of his body enjoyed the cool foamy water <o:p></o:p></div>
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The day became fiercely hot and by lunch time he took
sanctuary in the pre war hotel whose main bar faced the surf. As the cold beer
hit his stomach he slowed right down and turned in on himself He noticed the
tiles on the outside of the pub were red and black bordered on a mottled background,
inside they were a cool sea green.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At 6 O’clock he was on the street. As he looked back he saw in
the first floor window a man in a dirty white singlet with a roll your own
hanging out of his mouth, gazing out to sea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the cliff-top he suddenly wanted to be one of the Boys again,
to lie in a cool green silence where there was no more struggle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With a practised eye he estimated to the nearest foot the
height of the cliff and then calculated the impact of his body on the rocks –
and pulled back from the edge. He knew there was a chance he would survive and
become a burden.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A summer storm lit up the sky and he saw that he must leave
the war behind him - He took out his pipe and the small fire in his palm
comforted him. As the smoke filled his lungs it was both a benediction to those
he had lost and a reminder he was still breathing when so many others were not and
he had better make the most of it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In trouble for arriving back late and worse for wear, the charges
he was threatened with only helped him make up his mind to leave the Air Force<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-83946480386995831982018-05-16T12:48:00.000-07:002018-05-27T02:19:06.960-07:00Sevilla Journeys of the Heart <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is the last week of my residency in Seville and I have the apartment to myself I am wanting to review and document the wonderful time i have had here in Seville in an <a href="http://www.airgentum.org/" target="_blank">Artists Residency in Seville </a>with AIR Gentum .<br />
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I wrote in my journal soon after arriving that it is the journeys of the heart that are the most exciting and it has proved to be the case<br />
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In Spain I have learnt you have to use your heart to understand things and reach out to people not just your head , especially the case for me with my minimal spanish<br />
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I arrived in time for Semana Santa Holy week in Seville. Nothing can prepare you for the intensity of this experience which involves the whole city in various roles penitents -Nazarenos- , muscle men carriers of the heavy statues of the virgin Macarena or Jesus and the saints , marching bands playing sweet and sobre music, altar boys and incense swayers There is room for individual devotion- many of the nazarenos are bare footed and say the rosary as they walk- but Semana Santa is also an expression of family and community<br />
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Over the wall which housed the pietas we hung the crown of thorns I had made from wire I had found in an old Shepherds hut with a red flower to symbolize blood and passion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While travelling in the USA in July and Augu</span><span style="font-size: large;">st 2017 I have begun a new series that is a tribute to Walt Whitman</span><br />
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Recently I have found out that Australia<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -1em;">’S </span><span style="text-indent: -1em;">equivalent to Walt Whitman the colonial bush poet Henry Lawson had an intimate relationship with a young man that he writes about with great tenderness.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/writer-frank-moorhouse-on-tracing-henry-lawsons-sexuality-20171023-gz6lam.html" target="_blank">Henry Lawson Queer Hero</a> </span></div>
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I have found a way to compare and contrast homoerotic views of the colonial male across to countries USA and Australia and in doing so explore the nature of freedom and equality and our queer birthright to both<br />
My art work will also celebrate the centrality of the queer perspective to notions of masculinity in both countries. There is also an opportunity to link with my long running exploration of freedom in the Eureka series <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/eurekamichael/gallery/5904588/Stars-of-Eureka-Dreaming" target="_blank">Stars of Eureka Dreaming</a><br />
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Here is a picture of Henry Lawson circa 1900<br />
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<span style="color: #0a1633; font-family: "pt serif" , "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px; text-indent: 0px;">"For my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways / And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low; / I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know."</span><br />
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and one of Walt Whitman circa 1890<br />
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I then approached a guy living in Brooklyn -we ended up shooting in his apartment (Walt Whitman lived in Brooklyn and wrote about it in his poetry<br />
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As part of this process I am looking at more gritty less perfected idealism about the male figure. I am enjoying the real grounding hairiness of this model.<br />
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I went back to the USA in July 2018 and hope to return in 2019<br />
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Please Contact me on eurekacommunity@gmail.com if you want to model for this series in the USA or Australia<br />
I am also looking for a curator with a background in Colonial or New World gender studies and galleries in Australia or the USA interested in showing the work<br />
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As an "ageing homosexual" recently turned 60 I find myself becoming more and more invisible in the youth obsessed English speaking cultures I know. There have been a number of recent scarring events when some of my close gay friends ignored me in the pursuit of the younger and prettier.<br />
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Thankfully this is not the same in Latin and Asian countries or even in Europe generally.</div>
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This picture was taken by a 21 old female artist friend Morgan on a jaunt to Vicenza last summer. <br />
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I couldn't contrast this more highly with the warm welcome I have received in recent catch ups with my school and university friends, all of them straight.<br />
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I am going to move towards kindness as the Sufi poet Rumi recommends and I will find people who find me attractive to be with, whatever their age, gender or orientation. </div>
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-44660909342026994122017-05-07T04:31:00.000-07:002017-05-07T04:31:02.473-07:00The New Testament is a Suicide Note <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the secondary students I taught yesterday had a look at my studio and asked- "are you religious? " and then last night I had a dream.<br />
I am looking at an old church, I am outside and opposite is a door I am looking at. I can see some type of electronic eye between the door and the door frame. Someone tells me that if I go in, I will set off an explosive device and I might be killed or wounded. .<br />
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I am not sure what to do, I am happy to observe from the outside and I don't put pressure on myself to go in .. in a moment of clarity I feel I know what is inside the church - there are suicide notes in there<br />
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Today reflecting on the dream I realise the New Testament is one long suicide note. I have many friends who are gay and committed Catholics and its difficult to admit I am not one of them<br />
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It is a gruesome story about a father who conceives a son only to have him killed in the prime of his life . It is a horror story where everyone the Son loves and he himself is complicit in a bizarre plot to have him killed. </div>
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There is a deep belief in out society that young men should be sacrificed for the good of the tribe, race, religion or nation </div>
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Three years ago I travelled through Morocco with a lovely couple -she was Irish he was Australian . Their only son had been killed serving in the Australian Army in Afghanistan - overcome by the sheer depth of their grief I could not offer any words of consolation.</div>
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I see how readily politicians offer up our sons -and now our daughters- to fight in overseas wars thousands of miles from our borders . Why do we allow them to do it ? Patriarchal myths from Christianity to ANZAC make us think its right and proper. As a father of two sons I know its obscene. Religions and artists who work for them glorify the shameful willingness of the patriarchy to sacrifice its own sons </div>
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-35285898672960905512016-09-01T04:26:00.001-07:002016-09-04T03:48:07.775-07:00Sketches of Venice <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am back now about 4 weeks and evaluating the incredible impact Venice has had on me and my art making. Part of this process is to make an online record of the work I made<br />
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The Page of this bog called <span style="color: red;">Scarlatta </span>shows how I am making photo-montage arising from my Venetian experience.<br />
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Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia really encouraged me to get my hands dirty making art they had the most amazing collection of paper and materials that really inspired me Check them out at http://www.scuolagrafica.it/</h5>
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I also sketched most days, often in the company of my friend Morgan and on one memorable morning with Morgan and Maite at San Giorgio Abbey and island at the mouth of the Grand Canal<br />
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Many of the sketches have become damaged/altered in the process of completing other works in the sketchbook and as a result of subsequent travels, so I have begun to scan them and put them on line<br />
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My trip to Venice was entirely self funded and I would like to recoup some costs by selling limited editions of the best of these works- I would really appreciate your advice as to your favourite <br />
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Here is the first crop<br />
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-87829362198838067952016-08-17T19:40:00.000-07:002016-08-17T19:40:05.148-07:00 The great congregation meets daily, and you are someone's angel today<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My curator has suggested I explore Angels as they are an import part of art history especially of the counter reformation and then of the french catholic symbolist painters and pre-Vatican II folk piety<br />
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In my childhood we were told we each had a guardian angel, mine lived in a picture in my Aunt Peg's house that I used to love to visit<br />
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I told Domi the subject was so cliched that I wouldn't bother exploring it but a few things have happened to change my mind<br />
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I came across this quote by Tennessee Williams<br />
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<i>This is why we show up for others and tell our tales and listen to others.<b> The great congregation meets daily, and you are someone's angel today</b> </i><br />
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I found a redundant angel in the Abbey San Giorgio on an island at the entrance to the grand canal in Venice - he seemed so sad in a grungy sort of way. He is made of wood patched with bronze sheets you can see this more clearly from the back view.<br />
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I think he has been removed form active service on top of the abbey where he guarded the grand canal for many, perhaps hundreds, of years <br />
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he is part zombie in his impassiveness and magnificent decay - he inspired my first monotype<br />
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I am really interested to know why angels, well at least the good ones are pale, either feminised transgender or sexless while Lucifer is often naked muscly butch red and attractive ! We humans clearly project a lot on to them<br />
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A fond farewell to Venice after one month at<br />
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and a close up of the donated image which will feature in my upcoming Midsumma show Scarletto at the Abbotsford Convent Melbourne. </div>
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-76262565030966175672016-06-27T04:26:00.002-07:002018-02-22T02:44:18.528-08:00Old age and grunge beauty <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I finally saw Bronzino’s portrait of Admiral Andrea Doria as
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The subject of the Portrait has a portly stomach but is not
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How can I assert my handsomeness when I have an expanding
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Women, though judged more harshly on their appearance have,
or at least use a greater armoury in presenting themselves. An older woman of
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the girlish cut of the dress. Her skin, though wrinkled, is beautifully tanned and
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Maybe I can use my own appreciation of the grunge aesthetic
to honour and acknowledge my own ageing. I have to feel OK about myself now ..
not when, if ever I lose this weight because there will be other cruel tricks
that nature will play as she ages us all. I have decided to celebrate my remaining assets including my art making skills, my education, my own beautiful children and the volume and colour of my hair <o:p></o:p><br />
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I found a terrific variety of churches in Budapast alone, from
a very grungy but devout baroque church with peeling frescoes everywhere to the
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<span style="text-align: left;">However </span><span style="text-align: left;">my most favourite </span><span style="text-align: left;">was in Sztendere a hamlet outside Budapest on the Danube where the orthodox church had the most beautiful icons</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">and they had music in the background which reminded me of the music my boys Conor and Lloyd sing in the Georgian choir </span></div>
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-91778958308347025292016-06-21T22:02:00.000-07:002016-06-21T22:02:01.268-07:00Hundertwasser Museum Vienna <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Today I visited the museum of</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #47474e; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2px;">Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928 –2000) i</span><span style="font-size: small;">n Vienna today</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I know he is old hat to many architects and artists but I have only just discovered this amazingly talented man who lived in Vienna, <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.2px;">Aotearoa and Venice</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #47474e; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> The building itself, formerly the Thonet furniture factory, was architecturally remodelled according to Hundertwasser's own designs.</span><br />
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The artist spoke for himself in a film that also documented his life in Venice.. where he owned the Garden of Eden apartments after a time living on his yacht. He talks of man having three skins .. his own , his clothes and his architecture and he lectured nude to demonstrate the importance of design that was sensitive to human needs and restored his relationship to the natural world .. his artwork was Klimt like in the sense of mosaic style patterning and luminous colour and he said that painting is a religious act full of mystery and surprise.<br />
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An artist's life is a challenging one, akin to an old testament prophet -most of the time we are striving to make known the unknowable, uncover the invisible and say that one word that most want silenced.. meanwhile dancing with empty pockets !</h2>
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Overall it is a life of close observation and intense reflection</h2>
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Here is the light coming from a stain glass window on to a rug in the old convent hallway<br />
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Occasionally it is our time to own achievement take charge and like Jesus having his feet washed, accept those small moments of grace </h2>
Here is a picture of me at the Opening of my exhibition and proudly in front of sold work<br />
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When the exhibition is over for another year you have to to hold on to these moments to sustain you through the long months of observation art making and preparing... </h2>
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These are some of the many beautiful scenes I encounter daily at the Abbotsford Convent in my first Autumn here . There is a slight melancholy about Autumn for me, exaggerated this year because many of my friends are where I was last year Europe and I am not as employed as I would like to be, but also an implied fertility as nature sets the preconditions for new growth</div>
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colours in my drawings and photo montages for example <br />
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-61069514560252777522015-03-31T00:27:00.001-07:002015-03-31T00:27:13.647-07:00Eureka Joins the Convent <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today I took possession of my studio at the Abbotsford Convent one of Australia's largest and most diverse cultural spaces on the banks of the Yarra River Melbourne <br />
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I had to apply for the opportunity to lease the space and used this image made of components of the convent fabric and garden and of my studio view of the cloister as part of my application demonstrating how I will use the Convent textures in my ongoing exploration of the male figure.<br />
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My studio was a nun's bedroom then a classroom and still has a blackboard and chalk! <br />
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My friends David Chris and Richard all practising artists came to visit, stay tuned for the studio party . ..<br />
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-91693889036863601792015-03-15T18:46:00.000-07:002015-03-15T18:50:09.398-07:00Video projects <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am fascinated by the contrast between the static object and movement that I explore through video.<br />
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here is a link to my video on mannequins in a shop-fitting store as seen from a car driving by at night <br />
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Thank you to my son Conor O'Hanlon for editing the work <br />
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I am currently working on footage I took in Berlin with the help of the digital anthropologist Igor Karim tracing the progress of the bicycle symbol on the window of the S-Bahn <br />
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There is other footage I have taken in Paris and in Melbourne all looking for that sublime unexpected moment in the midst of the city. As my technical skills improve I hope to include video making as an integral part of the way I record and understand the places I visit </div>
Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-14661884937821069022014-10-28T16:36:00.000-07:002015-07-07T03:37:07.946-07:00Berlin Manifesto<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Written After completing a 3 month artists’ residency in Berlin March to
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subject of my work. In the history of art it has been one of the most important
subjects across the Greek Roman and Renaissance times and through religious art
in such subjects as the Crucifixion, The Baptism of Christ and the
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-47507249041197484432014-10-27T19:15:00.000-07:002015-02-20T17:26:25.922-08:00o dome sublime<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is an excitement in drawing a dome you take amazing risks making preposterous curves that cant be true but mostly workout there is no room for timid strokes or fuzzy outlines . If you commit the pen you can do it ! my love for the dome comes form a lifetime in Melbourne where my favourite domes I have drawn and photographed include the Exhibition buildings </div>
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-13247126253105415972014-06-26T01:34:00.001-07:002015-03-19T21:26:26.199-07:00Model Behaviour Exhibition Berlin <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Held at the Institute Cervantes in the Centre of Berlin this exhibition was the result of a collaboration between myself and 6 other artists selected internationally. .<br />
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As a result of my time at Agora and contacts I made I also provided pro bono training and support to not for profit providers based at Agora seeking to engage with local disadvantaged groups.<br />
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On the night of the exhibition I welcomed guests to the exhibition and asked them to rate their level of social comfort on a scale of 1 to 7 represented by 7 figures on a large chart. They were then reinvited to rate themselves at the end of the exhibition. People readily engaged with task and were grateful for the personal contact . I intended the performance to comment on the place of evaluation and measurement in art making and exhibiting- a theme that I constantly grappled with working with a small arts organisation but coming from a managerialist perspective <br />
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Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-84403632012452758202014-05-13T06:55:00.000-07:002015-02-16T02:59:29.326-08:00Europe a state of remembering and forgetting <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have just come back from 5 days in Prague . Like Berlin the air is thick with Remembering and Forgetting .Unlike the Berliners their decisions meant they kept their jewel of a City intact but there was a heavy price to pay<br />
The young Czech guy who drove me to Prague explained that the then Czechoslovakia chose to acquiesce to Hitlers demand for Sudetenland which had a sizable ethnic German Population at the urging of the Allies even though they had a strong army and industrial base on which to fight. In the end they were occupied and became a key part of the German war machine.<br />
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They also chose to become communist after the excesses of facism.<br />
After the war all Germans were expelled from Sudetenland ,the Jewish community had dwindeld to 1% and the Czech Republic for centuries a place where all Europe met and traded is now more monocultural than ever before. <br />
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Every decision has a consequence that echoes throughout subsequent decades centuries and millenia. It is unacceptable for Germans to act in a way that can be construed as racist but so many immigrants tell me they are discriminated agaist personally and systemically and that Germany, unlike the US or Australia, does not allow for social mobility for immigrants even after several generations in Germany.<br />
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I suuggested an exercise that would allow people to confess the things they were gulity about and then be assisted to produce a Video to the German Chancellor asking for Action . <br />
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While the other artists and the curator were well within their rights to question the subtlety and artistic merit of my proposal they went further and claimed that we artists as foreigners had no right to address such issues in our art<br />
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I objected to the idea that artists should not be allowed to address such issues in their work and explained my proposal would give People the opportunity to identify their own issues and assistance to do something about it. I was also told that direct quotation of religous symbols such as the confessional were also not appropriate. <br />
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Here is a visual represntation of the act of Remembering and the many ways we try to Forget </div>
Eurekahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792136989099831096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7604365526017776834.post-1512546573352572932014-04-06T11:37:00.000-07:002015-02-16T02:59:46.411-08:00Second Time Around <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Michael what´s it like being on an extended overseas adventure the second time around ? You are 57 now and travelled the US and some of Europe in your mid 20s over 30 years ago.</i><br />
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</i>I am attempting something more difficult this time living and working in a country where English is not the first language. Not all Germans speak English especially where I'm living which was in East Germany. As an older traveller you are much more invisible, the plus is that you can observe more closely what else is going on around you the minus is that it can be quite lonely in a city like Berlin where almost everyone seems young and beautiful.
Physically I have to pace myself more-I can do most things I want to but it takes more effort and planning<br />
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</i> At the moment I am spending a lot of time alone.
The residency has about 5 to 10 hours contact time and we see each other occasionally socially but I know no-one else in Berlin. My short term rental on my flat is up next week and I will enjoy some hostel living for a while- I loved living with Glendyr and the kids and don't really want to live alone ..and kids and animals are your best friends travelling as language is not a problem !<br />
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Because I have always had a keen sense of injustice and with confidence coming from my varied life experiences, my qualifications and professional achievements I am more likely to pull people up if I think I am being treated without respect or care. This has mostly been successful -there was some assertiveness required at the residency program at Agora when I expected more support as the last person to join the program now I am beginning to feel comfortable and getting a lot from the experience.
The residency is based in NeuKöln one of the most disadvantaged parts of Berlin with very high rates of unemployment amongst the Turkish community. Agora the place where I am doing the residency looks like a collection of 30 somethings running frantically in and out of communal workspaces to answer their mobiles, purpose unknown. I have a meeting tomorrow with a director to see what their relationship with the local community is like.<br />
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This time I am travelling as an out gay man something I deeply regret that I could not do last time. It's not easier doing it as an older man. Any gay man can achieve a measure of sexual contact but intimacy is much harder. Is gay culture the only culture where it is possible to have sex with someone without even meeting them? <br />
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I am definitely being influenced by the works I have seen in the museums especially the Holbein portraits in the Gemaldegalerie such as this Portrait of Georg Gisze of Danzig
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I am exploring secular symbols through two shoots with men who are posing unclothed with items related to their passions -the first a trapeze artist posed with his ropes and harness, the second a DJ with his favourite vinyl and headphones, the third a young man wanting a career in architecture but aware of its potential for heartbreak<br />
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I am exploring the potential to see these images projected onto a ceiling- here is an example of how it might look <br />
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I have begun to respond to the fabric of the City.<br />
Here is a small tribute I paid to the people taken away to concentration camps by the Nazis - their names are embedded in the pavement outside the place where they lived in my street ,Kopernicusstrasse. <br />
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I have begun drawing Berliner Dom the City's major protestant cathedral-its dome reminds me of Flinders Street Railway station in Melbourne - and as always I am doing life drawing mostly with models I organize myself </div>
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