by Mia Straka | May 25, 2020 | Handshake6, Mia Straka
This past month we have moved beyond full lockdown, after the dissolution of my bubble I shifted back to my flat and set up my home studio again. Now I am able to get back into my shared workshop. Manon and I had our first face to face meeting via Zoom two days ago, I...
by Nikki Perry | May 18, 2020 | Handshake6, Nikki Perry
I’ll have to call this my April blog, due to Covid 19 paralysis (my own). My small world initially appeared to be the same with Level 4 lockdown here in New Zealand. I felt like I had been practising for it all my life. Having worked from home for many years it was...
by Fran Leitch | May 17, 2020 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6
Blyton, E. (1950). The Land of Far-beyond. p. 12 (Leaving lockdown!) The contents of my cupboards, wardrobe, drawers, and cabinets have never looked so neat, aligned, contained, and ordered; my control over an uncontrolled time. I sometimes randomly open one up and...
by Fran Leitch | May 17, 2020 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6
‘The dream’ (written 10th April 2020) A few weeks back I had my first mentoring session with my mentor Iris via Zoom. A fabulous catch up (she told me exactly what I needed to hear, your work is good and It’s unique). It snowed and she showed me some of...
by Amelia Rothwell | May 12, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
Words can be used to create all sorts of pictures, yet the image I see most vividly, in this moment, when I think of words, is a net. I see the cord or thread and the knotting, simple or intricate patterns, holding ideas loosely in their arms. More than...
by Susan Videler | May 11, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
Limbo land. For the first two weeks of lockdown I was in an odd state of mental paralysis. Partly as a result of an anxiety attack about the looming effects of Covid-19 a week before lockdown, and coming to terms with not travelling to Melbourne for my daughters 30th...
by Aphra Cheesman | May 9, 2020 | Aphra Cheesman, Handshake6
I had my second catch up via skype with Lisa a few weeks ago. Unfortunately plans to meet in Wellington at the end of March had to be put on hold for obvious COVID-19 related reasons. I was disappointed not to be able to meet in person but we had a great chat and I...
by Macarena Bernal | May 8, 2020 | Handshake6, Macarena Bernal
Notes from communication with Monika Brugger May 7th, 2020 About the Kauri Gum bead neckalce: This she found the most interesting, I agree. She can interpret this one. It describes a cycle with many readings. Something everyone can relate too finding different...
by Kylie Sinkovich | May 3, 2020 | Curation Stanley Street, Kylie Sinkovich
The container or holder of special jewels and treasured items has always held a sense of intrigue, secrecy, the sacred and a dose of nostalgia for me. It’s like a tiny doorway into another time that I briefly crack open with the creak of a hinge as the velvet (or...
