Thanks @Faith-and-Hope It is beautiful and layered with meaning as well paint and paper. Toi Toi Toi .. is an opera world encouragement for singing artists. Sending many toi toi TOYS to you ..lol .. I am still hoping I stumble upon you one day .. in our big busy city.
@Teej Keep your eyes open for what YOU actually stumble upon ...
We had some wonderful sculptors done by a son of a lady in the writers group. WHo really worked from picking up rubbish ...
I am feeling full after a wonderful week singing and sharing the LOVE.
Who would have thought the "found object" movement in art would help me recover from the very real non artistic situation of a father who had lost better places to look for things and would look for food in the garbage bin. He never gave that food to me, but my mother would often bring those moments he may have thought were private, to my attention.
The earthiness of it can be beautiful and stark in the local sculptures and in other art.
Its just good for me to express the irony about the rubbish searching @Faith-and-Hope ... as it was such a huge, uncomfortable, 'without knowing what it was all about' feeling when I was 8.
It can help me bring those thoughts to a circle and close it off, in a satisfying way. My mother was using me and trying to turn me against him, and I was uncomfortable about that too, all preconscious.
I can understand it in terms of their gender expectations of each other and the great shame we carried as a family that I took on unwittingly.
I respect their life and struggles, but also learning to respect mine.
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Help us push aside the stigma and discrimination surrounding complex mental health and change the way people talk about, and care for, mental illness.
SANE acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
SANE values diversity. We are committed to providing a safe, culturally appropriate, and inclusive service for all people, regardless of their ethnicity, faith, disability, sexuality, or gender identity.