Off-grid living in a Yurt during winter
This missive marks the start of a new chapter - living, working and creating in a Yurt on the Catlins coast.
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The best books and paper for collages
Nothing delights me more than a Reader’s Digest Family Guide To… an Atlas of… or a Grafton Books: The New... They’re my MacGuffin when scouring second-hand bookshops and charity stores looking for collage materials.
Life is a Pastiche
The idea of pastiche as a metaphor for lived experience has been on my mind a lot lately. I’ve just finished constructing a collage that began with a cut out from a magazine using Rita Angus’ character Rutu from her…
Why I Started Blogging Again: A Gen X Perspective on Digital Communication
Ahead Of Your Time, Until You’re Not (Updated 9 June 2025) Back in the early 2000s, I started a blog as an experiment in digital communication. If I remember right, it was called Chameleon Diaries. It was going to be…
