Archive - Utterings

a very sporadic missive about art and culture

Dec 8, 2021 •

February 2020

THE DRAGONFLY I went into the laundry. It’s outside the house we (my partner and our children) rent. The roof, recently fixed, has skylights now, and…

Feb 2, 2020 •

October 2018

UP TO NO GOOD. I have a game I like to play on car trips. Whenever I see a raven, I like to point at it and say “up to no good”. They always look like…

Oct 5, 2018 •

September 2018

ONE. 21 going on 22 and I am in a dodgy, dodgy share house in North Hobart, when North Hobart was still alright. When there was an empire of Parthenons…

Sep 29, 2018 •

notes on the black cat

The black cat sees time The cat, which requires water, knows me to be an idiot and leads me to the bathroom sink. It will squall a certain pitched mew…

Sep 21, 2018 •

July 2017

Hello, I went to the theatre. I don't go much, and I should possibly go more, but in Hobart there is not all that much I'm attracted to seeing, which…

Jul 26, 2017 •

June 2017

On 150 Action. Graphic content.

Hello. I need to write about my attendance of 150: Action, the Hermann Nitsch performance at Dark Mofo. I need to do this, in part, to get my thoughts…

Jun 21, 2017 •

May 2017

ONLINE IS NOT A PLACE He says to her (it’s probably a her) I’m paranoid. I think that banning a famous person from a social media platform is a type of…

May 11, 2017 •

March 2017

It's been a while.

Hello there, So yeah I got busy. That's why one of these things didn't get sent for 238 days, not that it has a precise schedule or that I have all that…

Mar 21, 2017 •

July 2016

Transfigured/transcripted

Hey There. I turned 48 on Sunday and it's Tuesday morning and I cannot sleep, so it's you I turn to, neglected friends. Another month, and I am…

Jul 25, 2016 •

June 2016

Waking Up. Sleeping.

Hello, So. It's been over a month since this happened last. Stuff happened. Lots of it. My Grandfather, Leith Robertson Harper, died. It was sad…

Jun 26, 2016 •

May 2016

Hello from the Brooker Avenue overlook. Finally, there is rain. Proper rain. It's incredibly relieving; the genuine worry I've been feeling about…

May 8, 2016 •

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