Sculpture by the Sea 2008

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Serena Horton

Our teachers Marion & Rosa asked each student to describe a particular art work from Sculpture by the Sea.
I chose “Root bound by friendship" designed by Serena Horton.


I really love this sculpture. It’s a small tree on a rock shelf with a huge root system under it.The tree is made of steel, aluminium, wool, cotton, porcelain and sandstone. She placed it on top of a protruding rock and the roots come down from the bottom of the rock as if they have gone through the rock.
Serena decorated the branches of the steel tree with embossed aluminium foil leaves. The leaves may lightly move and jingle in the breeze. It looks absolutely gorgeous. I love the embossed leaves and dimensional tree.



The roots look completely different. The artist knitted them from wools and cotton. They are widely spread and are very colourful.


By this installation the artist wants to say how important to have a family and friends is. Exposed roots introduce the family and friends who nourish and anchor the person for enrichment and stability.
I agree with Serena Horton and I really love her art work.

Nexus by Alex Kosman.

One of my favorite art work was "nexus".

This gorgeous boat crowned tree reminds me of a perfect Faberge jewel.

But the main association was with a life force full of energy and ready to face life's challenges and held just by anchor.

Trip planer

To arrive at Kogarah station at 2:30pm we have to take the 381 bus which departs at 1:31pm from, Dubley St Nr Fletcher St Bondi. Go straight up to Bondi Junction. We need to catch 1.58 pm train.

My craft

As you know I love knitting and working with paper.
I love to share my projects with you but I don't want to mix up my English study with my craft so I decided to create a new blog.
You all are very welcome to visit my new blog - "My craft".

Sculpture by the Sea

“Sculpture by the Sea” is the largest annual outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Australia.
It has run since 1997 and involved artists from around the world.
This very interesting, modern exhibition will feature over 100 sculptures from 7 different countries and will run from 16 October to 2 November.
The exhibition is located alongside Sydney’s spectacular Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk.
Next Tuesday we are going there.
I hope weather will be nice and I'll take some pictures.
I am so excited!!! Can't wait!!!
Keep an eye on my blog.More photos are coming soon.

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What are you wearing?

Alison is wearing a long sleeved red stripped blue T-shirt. On top of it she’s got an open neck black woollen jumper with buttons and a little collar. She’s also wearing a dark colour long sleeved denim jacket with breast pockets. Also she was in the black straight legged jeans and very comfortable black leather ankle boots with low heels.
Alison loves very comfortable clothes from natural fabrics. Likewise she loves wearing jewellery, especially heavy pieces of it.
So she’s got 2 pink studs on the right ear and 3 in the left, which are 2 black little stones and one little diamond stud.
Alison’s got a chunky silver bracelet and chrome watch too.

Andrew is wearing some black pans, a white shirt with collar and black shoes.
What’s more he’s got a coat, a hounds tooth pattern coat, that is black on white but it has a sort of chess appearance. Andrew was not sure whether he was wearing a coat or jacket but then he decided it’s a coat because it has lapels, two buttons and doesn’t have a zipper. And jackets are usually zipped up although denim jackets are not zipped up.
Besides Andrew is wearing plastic watches nowadays instead of valuable because he has a very bad record of loosing watches. He either gets them stolen from his wrist or ruins them jumping into swimming pools with watches on.
Andrew used to wear jewellery but his wife thought he looked as a vain person in it, so she made him remove his studs.

Icon from my country.

Matreshka- the nested doll- is a Russian wooden toy in the form of a painted doll into which some dolls of smaller sizes have been inserted.
The number of the enclosed dolls is usually five or more.
The name of the doll comes from Matryona( pet name Matreshka) which was the most widespread woman’s name in Russia. 
The first Matreshka appeared in the 1890-s. As a prototype for this doll the figure of a Buddhist Wiseman, Fukuruma was used.
It was brought to Russia from Japan at the end of 19 century. 

The first Russian nested dolls were created as toys for children, which helped them develop skills of the forms, colours, quantity and size.
 They were very expensive. But demand of them increased very quickly. 
An original ornament of Russian dolls were Russian maids and women, ruddy and full, dressed in sun dress and scarfs, with doggies, cats, baskets 
or with flowers. Soon after that the nested dolls decorated with a very picturesque scene from fairy tales appeared. Those dolls told the whole 
story. 
Today the Matreshka has become the most popular tourist souvenir in Russia. It is possible to buy various souvenirs for all tastes - the nested dolls representing
 politicians, known musicians, even the images of saints.

The article about our teacher Andrew.

In the report Andrew tells about his plans to go back to Thailand. When he adopted his sons Nut and Num he told the authorities he would be going back. The main reason is that the boys don’t forget their homeland. Also Num has a Foster mother and they plan to visit her.
So Andrew wants to go to Thailand for holidays but he thinks that Sydney is a better place for the kids to grow up.
One of the other reasons for not going back is that Sydney’s weather is friendlier. Num’s birth father is European and while Nut is ok with Bangkok’s hot weather Num sweats a lot. In Bangkok they have three seasons: the cool season, the hot season and the wet season. In all three seasons the coolest day won’t be lower than 22 degrees.
While Andrew is keeps talking about the Bangkok’s weather one of the students tells us that the weather in India is about the same. Then Andrew finds some similarities between Australia and Thailand. Some parts of Thailand are very dry. As dry as some parts in Australia.
Then another question was raised by a student. A girl asks how Australian weather affects new immigrants as most of them used to live in different climate areas. Andrew answers that there’s an opinion that the way we live will make our country dryer and hotter. So the weather affects not only immigrants but many locals also struggle, especially farmers.
After that Andrew tells us his own opinion. He thinks that Australian people should use water smarter.
At the end of the speech the topic turns to how many seasons Australia has. All agree with Andrew that we have four seasons of the weather in Sydney, but some parts of Australia have the summer around the year.