#3 :- Guided tour

The Oaks by Big Red Tractor.

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Dec 29, 2022

One of the most enjoyable chores that I have set myself here at The Oaks, which will be a tour and commentary for you, is to thin the fallen timber along the driveway.

What I can't show you or give you is the experience of the smell, the field vibrations like there is a charge in everything, the heat, the atmosphere, the flies.

I will try and describe as best I can when the effect is not perceptible to the camera. An example is when you hit a long wire fence with a stick and that electric zap sound that you can't properly explain in words but know it when you hear it.

Take on my Samsuny Galaxy 21S during morning and night walks. — The Oaks. View from the house. Looking up the driveway

The biggest buzz is the mosquitoes.

If you are not prepared you can't escape them. I found that without the proper clothing and repellent I couldn't be outside. The evening walk from about dusk to the early hours at night are impossible . I am already fairly scarred from being unprepared.

Why clearing the tree limbs is so much fun is the magical way in which an area that seems to be empty of anything, once you start picking up a length of tree limb, all of a sudden that limb breeds numerous other tree limbs that didn't seem to be there before.

I put for demonstration purposes a layout of what is required to walk around the property, at Heathcote. Christmas week. Second image, taken in the bathroom Heathcote. I love the light effect in this room. After the flywire screen door was left open in December. When I first came to the house it was full with cans of insect spray. After see the $ price of a can at the supermarket - $25.95, and the inundation of blow flies in Summer "22", I was inspired to create this photograph of a can of insect repellent, as anonymous chemical Corporation, structure.Image by Artist. Family photo album of me applying the fly spray to myself so that I can stay outside without being attacked by mosquitos. — Layout of of daily essential daily clothes. BIG CHEM, 2022, Photograph by the artist. Me applying fly spray directly.

20 minutes to half an hour later, you’ve gathered a pile from what seemed like nothing. It doesn’t seem to have been done for a long time, or ever maybe?

The other thing l enjoyed was when I overheard a boy and his father talking about what they had found in the bush. What they were observing was the result of about 2 hours of my morning walk from about 6 till 8 am.

Again I can explain what I can see and what the camera is showing you but I can't show you what you want to see. I can do so much but the final result is up to you .

We try setting the fallen stumps up on top of each other to create the eyes and faces of creatures and set them on their bases. I would love to make them into a walking path and organic sculpture.

All sculpture ideas are organic: this will be an outdoor sculpture walk with seats carved into trunks of fallen trees and an endless variety of useable ideas material in the form of tree limbs and sticks.

EYE by Simon Macaulay, 2022. LIP CAN, GUARANTEE, This photo was taken of one of the many constructions along the driveway, during a morning walk. Why did the bin cross the road? Or that should be, how do you get the bin to be collected from this side. The roadside at 68 GREENS LANE resu

I can guarantee it'll generate some art ideas.

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