In progress

  2pm curator’s talk 7pm opening Kay Burns’ sound piece. Delicate collages by another artist. The catalogue is coming home by parcel mail.

  At the very last minute a track from the geophone recording ready for use. We edit the loudest bits down so the speaker doesn’t blow and then play it in the 4-story silo stairwell. It’s ready with a few minutes to go — a subwoofer vibrates 20 metre long waves of sound. And then

  This afternoon I have got a booking for the narration booth. Leslie Thomas will read from green mountains walking. Ernie Kroeger will read some narrations of the Frank mining disaster. Renato Vitic has offered to do a list of placenames associated with the structural cross sections as well as some extracts from the history

  A walk by the Ministry of Walking A spoof on management training programs. Cooperation, Negotiation and ??? Being tied into a rope line like they did with prisoners. Made me think of Aboriginal prisoners straight away. That black and white image of chained bodies heading for the oblivion of a faded photograph. Having your

  We are to carry Riaz to the top of Tunnel Mountain on a litter. We carry Riaz’s luggage, a chair and table, and a pot of hot tea. Poetry and tunnel mountain history are read out by the guides. No smiling. Struggling to the top of the mountain the ceremonial photograph has us sherpas

  Asking Riaz how to get rocks to speak he tells me to go out and talk to them. Must do! Also the following picture is so much like a musical composition!

  Have spent the last two days processing mp3 soundtracks onto the computer. Thanks to Mr Sony there is no way of digitally transferring so everything has to be done analogue in realtime. The reason why I have been delaying it was hoping that there was a solution. On the whole not a lot of

  Picked up last of postcard sized prints from Xerox. For colour photocopies they have been exceptionally good. Printed 6 more sheets of cyanotype but overprinting did not work because you are meant to size and seal the image! Have booked a time to learn this on the 29th.

  Rebecca on Tunnel Mountain looking towards Sulphur Mountain Jen Southern helped with gps stuff. Told me about 93 Photo street and MacGPS. Fabulous! Want to try the overprinting of blue cyanotype on brown Van Dyke or reverse. Surprised how good graphic images worked. DIdn’t go on walk today to Mt Yamnuska as was too

  Had great fun printing images. Cloudy weather meant 20-30 minute exposures. Printed a view of Marble Canyon in cyanotype plus some graphic images as Van Dykes. Would like to overprint as well. Doing something physical and magical instead of computer work.

  First quarter BAS statement. At least the view is inspiring.

  This one was actually really depressing ending. The shaman says “We are happiest when we don’t think too much. We are happy when not having to worry about hidden things” “We don’t fear death but we are afraid of suffering” Same as the last film that strange sense of only discovering at the end

    A day of dahl and chicken, tracing geological maps and Atanarjuat. Atanarjuat or Fast Runner is a film made by the Iglooik community in northern Canada. Winner of a swag of awards it tells the story of a community split by disharmony and violence. Resolution comes only after many years and through the