In 2011 I made a 2-minute movie on iPad called What I know about learning.
My OpenProcessing portfolio now has a few interesting sketches – my favourite is the acoustic swarm (best with headphones).
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Wallhanging of found things
(c. 1991)
Old bicycle parts, wire, thread, feathers, stone, driftwood, wood from Fraser Island when it was still being logged, banksia, glass, beads.
I still like it.
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Stone spiral garden feature
(2003–08)
The front yard of my house remains a work-in-progress. In 2002, there was a big, weepy, sappy tree here. When we dug out the stump, we kept digging, making a flat circle and using all the earth to create a mound along the top. I had a lot of help with the digging, and I can claim very little credit for the drystone walling. But it looks a lot like how I imagined and drew it.
There’s a pond to the right of the frame. On the rare occasions we get a lot of rain, the overflow drains round to the left and then out a tunnel round the side of the house. Nifty.
In the next phase, we’ll add a cubic structure of wooden posts and beams to enclose the space a bit.
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Sri yantra
(2008)
I’m fascinated by the visual mantras of yoga and like to draw and look at them. The sri yantra has five downward-pointing triangles and four upward-pointing triangles, and represents a cosmos integrated by the union of male and female principles.
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Pattern in red, blue and brown
(2009)
Watercolour pencil drawing, exploring how a pattern can evolve from one side of the page to the other.
It turned into a birthday card for my friend Michelle, who graciously took this mobile phone picture of it.
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Nandi, bull companion of Shiva
(2009)
Pencil drawing of a lovely sculpture now at the National Gallery of Australia.
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A recipe for relaxation
(2009)
Cover for a Yoga Nidra CD – I wrote the copy and prepared the design for print.
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Shakti yantra
(2009)
I saw this yantra in a book and figured if I put my mind to it, I could code it in Processing. Et voilà! It’s even scaleable, so you can make it tiny or huge just by changing the width and height. Shareable code is here.
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Christmas gift tag
(2009)
For Christmas, I was keen to code a design but also wanted the tags to have a homey feel. Since our printer is black-and-white, home-iness was added by hand-colouring. So for these gift tags, I sketched in Processing, printed out six-to-a-page, cut to shape and hand-coloured.
