Gardener in the Distance

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職業 garden-maker, writer, artist becoming, bookseller
場所 Melbourne, Victoria, オーストラリア
紹介 A garden-maker valuing the work of garden-making as an art-form, a florist who likes to re-express nature's force and tenuity, a possible poet, a writer and sometime bookseller with an inclination towards the divine subjective, I like a humane originality, quiet sorts of spaces and wildness not too wild. This blog covers work in my own garden, visits to wherever I'm inspired to go and representations, visual, literary or theatrical, of my feeling, depending on climates interior and exterior. I'm interested in site-specific design, land-art, environmental integrity and sculptural forms originating from nature. I am also interested in ideas of rescue and revival as they apply to damaged landscapes and gardens, in aesthetics, and in the spiritual origin, the spiritual reality of all life.
趣味 Landscape, trees, natural forms, the slow, the handmade, literature, writing, art, sculpture, garden design, the preservation of wildness, the presence of wildness in gardens, ruins, the obscure or forgotten, architecture, collecting, aesthetics, integrity, authenticity, the spiritual dimension of life, cigarettes and coffee, much admired artists are Andy Goldsworthy, John Piper, Caroline Rannersberger, Rosalie Gascoigne, Giusppe Penone, Clarice Beckett, Theo Jansen ('Strandbeest'), Polixeni Papapetrou, David Nash, Fiona Hall, Antony Gormley, David Noonan, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Albert Namatjira.
お気に入りの音楽 Lana del Rey lately, soundscapes, Sigur Ros, Beethoven, Vangelis, Edith Piaf, Goldfrapp, Coldplay, Rautavaara, The Flaming Lips, Bach, Bjork, Nick Drake, Rob Dougan, Lisa Gerrard, Philip Glass, Royksopp, Christian hymns, the songs of birds, Kraftwerk, Nina Simone, Thomas Otten.
お気に入りの本 A Month in the Country by J L Carr, The Generous Earth by Philip Oyler, William Trevor, Jane Gardam, James Joyce's Ulysses, the poet Les Murray, Gerald Murnane, The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd, Roger Deakin's Wildwood: a Journey through Trees, Gerald Durrell, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth David, Plenty: Digressions on Food by Gay Bilson, Alan Bennett, The Lost Gardens of Heligan by Tim Smit, Anton Chekhov, Christopher Lloyd, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Jan Morris, Nicolas Rothwell, The Monocled Mutineer, Emily Dickinson, W G Sebald, Claudio Magris's Microcosms, Anita Brookner, The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A J Mackinnon, William Blake, Dan Pearson's Spirit: Garden Inspiration, Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson, A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature by Margaret Drabble, Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch, Beatrix Potter, Glendurgan: a Personal Memoir of a Garden in Cornwall by Charles Fox, Corvus: a Life with Birds by Esther Woolfson