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2017 Asialink Arts Residency

Crazed Puppets 04  Crazed Puppets

bundengan-01 This is not a Kowangan

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#Repost @studentconservatorsmelb with @get_repost ・・・ Save the date: 21 June 2018 for free public lecture 'From 3D Shadows in Wayang Kulit to Vibrato Effects in Bundengan: Traditional Art meets Modern Technologies' at the Grimwade Centre, 5-6pm. Dr Gea will examine how the dynamic movements of both shadow puppets and musical instruments strongly determine their artistic quality, and how the movements affect the conservation of these cultural objects. https://bit.ly/2y6AhQN. #studentconservators #bundengan #wayangkulit #grimwadecentre
Some days I am reminded of how Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in heels. Having to do everything in Mandarin, in a city that is not quite the kind of international metropolis I am used to living in, adds that extra spice to my conservation work. Sometimes that spice is “stir-fried clam flavour”. #taiwanlife🇹🇼
Whilst at the fabric market I was only planning to have a quick look for future reference, but then I found so many lovely cottons in nice neutral colours and they were so affordable... and thus begins my Taiwan fabric hoarding. #fabricstash #cotton #fabrichoarder #neversaydye
On my way to the incredible fabric market in Dihua Street, I dropped by to visit some old friends up at the Puppet Museum today... 💕 #taiyuanpuppets
Surreal moment to be awake browsing reddit at 4am and suddenly @auralarchipelago and a #bundengan are right there on the front page!!! No waaay... such a crazy feeling (enhanced by sleep deprivation and the snoozing puppy on my lap). Well done Palmer, people clearly really enjoyed your AMA! I’m so pleased and proud of you.
Colour coordinated for a trip on the High Speed Rail this morning... heading from Kaohsiung to Taipei, a 350km trip that will take around 100 minutes. Too much teal? Impossible. #rosielovesteal #hsr #taiwan
When both the client and the literature confirm that “aesthetic compromise” won’t be acceptable... wish me luck. #conservator #conservationscience #cleaning #textileconservation #textiles
I posted this on Facebook FOUR years ago, and probably didn’t open these books again much since (apart from Artifacts, which is always a handy place to start!). With a dead laptop on my hands and no access to my digital library of conservation PDFs and e-books, I’m so grateful I held onto my “analog” paper books — they are currently in a shipping container somewhere on the Pacific Ocean, but I should have them in a few weeks from now... #conservator #rosielovesteal
Trying to stay calm whilst my suddenly crashed MacBook Air attempts to recover... 太極系列 (Taiji Series, by my own translation) by Meihong Lu, Zhijun Yu and Qian Lu, 80 x 80cm. #embroidery from the Suzhou embroidery exhibition in Hong Kong last week. Sorry for wretched colour balance and reflections... #rosielovesteal
It was truly not my intention to go full Taiwan/Hello Kitty fangirl when I walked into this FamilyMart to buy an Easycard. But when presented with this option, how could I resist?! #taiwan #hellokitty
Last day of my internship at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum! We are doing some experiments with rigid gels, Eunice and Athena @akkakkak are busy heating up different recipes on the hot plate as they have some stained textiles and paper for us to play with — I hope I get to see some results before I go! #conservator #conservationscience
Never pass on a chance to play with an #embroidery frame! At the Suzhou Embroidery Art Exhibition in Wanchai... stay tuned for my favourites 😍
A rare sight: my better half James and me, not only together but in cold weather. We spend much of our lives in hot countries, and mostly several time zones apart. Tonight James is flying to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh to join the UNHCR’s response to the Rohingya refugee crisis. Whilst I wish he could be with me in Kaohsiung when I start my own new job next week, I’m so proud of all the humanitarian aid work he does around the world. Hopefully we will be reunited before the end of the year (although the likelihood of it being in a non-hot and sweaty climate remains low)! #rosielovesteal #rosielovesjames
This would probably have been a better photo to go with the previous post about my great-great-great-grandfather Captain David Rae Newall and his time in Canton with the East India Company! This is me assessing the clockwork ivory junk he brought back from China in the 1820s. My grandfather took it apart to clean and mend it, many years ago, and passed away before putting it back together. When I visited the UK in November I wrapped everything in tissue for safe storage (and then stuck a rusty iron filing in my eyeball, for good luck, ah the memories!). One day I will have time and space to have a go at putting it back together! #ivory #junk #conservator
Visiting the HK Maritime Museum was a weird moment for me. Forgive the sentiment, but in my almost 35 years, I haven’t ever felt a deep sense of “MY history” anywhere I go. I am always a visitor learning about other people’s culture. Sometimes I learn about the barbaric practices of the Colonial British and feel a shameful sense of the deep injustice and damage that “my people” inflicted around the world, but that’s more of a general sentiment than closely tied to understanding my own, personal ancestry. In fact, I tend to dismiss my own history and cultural identity as not very important, or even too dilute to identify closely with any place or culture. I’m just a middle-class white Anglophone, with (according to my DNA mapping results) a mix of heritage from across Caucasus. Today though, unexpectedly, I suddenly came face to face with my family history; realising that this is where my great-great-great-grandfather Captain David Rae Newall travelled to with the East India Company in the 1820s, where he purchased the paintings and ivory junk that are part of my family lore. Understanding the history of trade in Canton, and the relationship between the British and the Chinese at that time — it was a bizarre feeling of contextualisation and suddenly feeling a historical connection to a geographical space in a way I haven’t experienced before. Ironically, I didn’t take many photos but here is an embroidered waistcoat with paddle steamer motifs, from the mid-19th century, possibly when my fourth-grandfather would have been kicking around Whampoa, hopefully not smuggling opium, and probably annoying the Chinese administration. #history #hongkong
This afternoon I was on my way between Pier 9 (the Ferry to Lamma Island, which was gorgeous) and Pier 8 (Hong Kong Maritime Museum, which was pretty good) when these amazing women suddenly grabbed a bunch of handheld gongs (?) and began dancing. There are always noisy events happening on a weekend, and as soon as this 2-minute performance ended an awful karaoke-type thing started blaring, it was almost like some kind of talent show? I was so curious about where they are from — HK is full of young women from Indonesia and the Philippines who gather in the shaded walkways and parks on their days off, with food, music and I’m sure much-needed comfort from friends (since they work in rather harsh conditions and are far from their families) but it was my first time to see such a “traditional” kind of performance in this setting. @auralarchipelago — would you say possibly Indonesia? #music #hongkong #dance
Friday was just fabulous. I spent the morning with Jody Kan (photo is a corner of her studio featuring a traditional raincoat). I learned so much about dressmaking in Chinese culture, from c.5000BCE to the present day! And then in the afternoon I visited Teresa Coleman Fine Arts to ooh and aah at Teresa’s collection of historic Asian textiles. I’m not able to share photos from either visit but it was definitely one of those days that makes this internship-turned-working-holiday-due-to-injury very, very fruitful. #textiles #raincoat #hongkong
Hong Kong, Hong Kong... dawn till dusk you are an ABSOLUTE BEAUTY! View from the balcony of where I’m staying, 9am, 7pm, 💯 gorgeous all damn day long! #hongkong #cityskyline #cityscape
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