The Eyes have It

Purple Bra, Blue Stocking
(Ode to Breast Cancer Awareness)

Oh Capt Bunbury, how fair thou art!
Tis but a perfect improvement
O'er such a dis-male sight
Should you breach such sweet caress
by sudden shifting torn abreast
I'll mourn a million thousand deaths
That your feminine be wretched yet

In case you esteemed and accomplished poets out there were wondering - no, it is not any attempt to be anything other than a bunch of words. Despite a brief brush with English teaching, Ginny spouts sonnet-less verse so don't bother counting pentameters, lines or rhyming couplets lest you desire to frustrate yourself beyond all comprehension. Beauty is in the beholder of random free-verse.

Virginia does know a thing or two about a granny guerrilla cunning stunt - it is as much a performance in the installation as the finished result itself. She is quite brazen these days, flashing her wares to all and sundry in the main. Virginia is no shrinking violet, she has a story to share and there's some fun to be had in the margins.

In true Sherwood Forest-style Ginny adds a splash of domesticity to the streetscape. She assures us it's okay but something about the wanted poster style of it and rough and ready print tells us that maybe it's not really all right...

And still flies almost a year later, sewn to the tree (hanging to the left - the 'n' visible). Hanging tea towels out to weather seems to be a fitting way to savour anti-washing sentiments. How are you with your washing? Shame the clothesline at home isn't artwork for the gallery too - sometimes the washing can hang on it for weeks at a time before it is invited inside to be sorted, folded and stowed...home style installations for an audience of one? two? Perhaps more ephemeral art of the daily/weekly/monthly variety. Bit like the home cappuccino machine or the plasma TV in a home threatre - we can have our visual pleasures at home like 'the real thing' of the cinema... Now we can also have high art - ephemeral installation art at that - at home whenever we like. Just pop out back to gaze at the incredible wonder of the hills hoist. Luxury in our own back yards. How's the serenity?