I forget to eat I just forget I forget to eat I sew and sew just for me just for myself if I had a shop I’d hat I’d hate it but I like it in my sew room by myself for myself now I forget to eat my mother forgot to eat and now I do it it get me light you don’t worry about a thing things get light and lighter now that is how I say it just good she had to sleep and sleep but I don,t now I just don,t eat and in my sew room I sew and sew all outfits all my outfits tight stocking fits that is what I do not to think about not to think we like to sew because we don’t have to think it gets gets empty on empty now what I feel this should not be shown this should not be told no no no no no don’t tell me don’t you tell me now I don’t want to know what I think about just none and nothing now my daughter can’t hear what I think now it was cold but I didn,t dress her now I dress me but I didn’t dress her why not dress her but I did not dress her now I sip tea but that,s all I just wanna be happy just happy I refuse to be drag down all art has to elate lift me I lift me bed lifts me feet lift me needle lifts me I am singer sew machine now what I aim to be what I want to be all along now that that us is what I wanna be happy I just wanna be happy that’s all don,t tell me and don’t tell me any any any don’t tell me any mine miny mo eenie weenie I just sew and sew one two three cut pattern now I forget to eat me I forget every I forget what happens top me I will not be drawn down I will not be why do you see such plays why do you see films like that I want to be happy on happy just sew and sew that’s all and that’s all I do now sew room straight up and down nothing fancy arty I just cut and sew now cut and sew and skip and walk and walk now I just sew and sew now sew me a happy sew me a glad glad notto be just glad to forget me I sew up and down I don’t think about any any any any any any any any any any any I forget to eat now I sew my machine letters here on and
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Ukulele Ekphrasis: Prudence Flint and Ania Walicz
By Prudence Flint and Ania Walwicz | 20 September 2012
Sewing Machine
Prudence Flint graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in painting at Victoria College of the Arts (1989) before completing her Master of Fine Art by research at Monash University (2008). In 2004 she won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with her painting A Fine Romance#9 and in 2009 the Portia Geach Memorial Award with her painting Scrambled Egg. She has been a finalist in numerous drawing and painting prize shows including; Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Archibald Portrait Prize, R & M McGivern Prize, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, National Works on Paper, Paul Guest Prize, and Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize. Her work is held in the collections of City of Port Phillip, Artbank, BHP Billiton and private collections in Australia. Flint is represented by Nellie Castan Gallery in Melbourne, Chapman Gallery in Canberra, and Bett Gallery in Hobart. She is to have her eleventh solo show at Nellie Castan Gallery in October 2012.
http://www.prudenceflint.com
http://www.prudenceflint.com
Ania Walwicz is an Australian poet and play-wright, born in Swidnica, Poland, she emigrated to Australia in 1963 and was educated at Melbourne's Victorian College of Arts and the University. She has been a writer-in-residence at Australian universities and is well-known for performances of her work. She is widely admired for her highly experimental poetry, which rejects the conventional structures of free-verse in favour of the prose-poem form, but creates energetic rhythms through patterns of grammatical and tonal recurrence. Walwicz's principal collections include Writing (1982), re-issued as Travel/Writing in 1989, Boat (1989), and Red Roses (1992). Her theatrical pieces include Girlboytalk (1986), Dissecting Mice (1989), Elegant (1990), Elegant (2013), Palace of Culture (2014) and Horse (2018).
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- ‘Eat’ from Horse
- ‘Language can multiply itself and form secret and unusual patterns’: Andrew Pascoe Interviews Ania Walwicz
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- Horse
- Review Short: Ania Walwicz’s The Palace of Culture
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- All Writing Is Pigshit
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