Alchemy Dreaming

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Community Artist, Teacher's Aide, Grower of things in the dirt
Location North West, NSW, Australia
Introduction An attempt at synthesis between country roots and city grime. Potted permaculture and felt rocks. Granite country girl, armed with a pair of Felco 7's and a head full of ideas.
Interests gardening, print making, propagation, musicology, felting, loyalty, eco-dying, pharmacology, organics, wine, silk, clean sheets, community art, preserving, seaweed, insects, textiles, dreadlocks, fire twirling, vegan, cooking, organising, tidying, sewing, pattern making, dancing, drumming, flute, swimming, botanical art, watercolour, yoga, special education, landscape design, permaculture, classic novels, bluegrass, the crazies, silk scarves, cigarettes, simple pleasures
Favorite Movies Iris, blue crush, doubt, st trinians, angels in america, dead poet's society
Favorite Music Yes, Mark Lanegan, Ash Grunwald, Ani Difranco, Fiona Apple, Abigail Washburn, Selah Sue, A Perfect Circle, The Crooked Fiddle Band, Billie Holiday, Stevie Nicks, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fat Freddy's Drop, Portishead, George Winston, Horrorshow
Favorite Books The Great Ideas -Suzanne Cleminshaw, An Equal Music - Vikram Seth, A fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry, Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt, The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath, Touched With Fire - Kay Redfield Jamison, Walden - Henry David Thoreau, On Equilibrium - John Ralston Saul, Tasting Salt - Stephanie Dowarick, Iris Murdoch: A Biography - Peter J. Conradi, Skin -India flint, The Blood of Flowers - Anita Amirrezvant, Permaculture a Designer's Manual - Bill Mollison, The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch, Little Women - Louisa May Alcott, Grimms Fairy-tales

Aren't papier mache cuts the worst?

"I hope that my sanity covers the cost to remove the stain of my love from papier mache" - Damien Rice