Installing post and peace

 

My art practice over the last few days has been a bit of a mixed bag. We attached the students etched aluminium plates to the post; installed the post temporarily beside the museum Annex; and hung our peace doves and weather grams for International Peace Day - 21 September..

The Fishers Post

The first part of the blog post is about The Fishers Post. As you can see from the opening photo we dug a hole and planted the post. The post is 1.75m in length and 23cm square - and it is very very heavy.

The plates were attached in the wee shed as it has been raining on and off since Wednesday.

The length of the post was planned as that was the longest post we could get into the van.

We borrowed a sack trolly from a neighbour and after Fiona had backed the van up to the paved area of the Annex we were able to wheel and lug it into place.

We took stones from the five fishing beaches with us so these were used to stabilise the post.

A couple of photos of the installation labourers - the sun shone on the afternoon of the installation.

Installing Peace doves and weather grams

Fiona and I brought some of this year's peace doves and weather grams with us to the cottage. We had salvaged some from 2022. We installed last year's pieces in the wee plum tree; and the 2023 pieces on the barbed wire fence.

Before we travelled to the cottage we had installed some doves and weather grams in the magnolia tree outside our Maleny home - it was good that we could add to that peace energy by installing some at our Armadale home. May we continue to work for peace and kindness - the world surely needs both.