the make.believe sea

Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.

2012-01-22T19:36:00.010+13:00

amy's dress on christmas eve. soaked in whiskey and wine.

Children of the Mist.

2012-01-22T18:14:00.005+13:00

it rained. and it poured. at swan lake. we played in the mud and fell asleep before midnight.

hello new year.

your star struck innuendo, and the sunlight shining through the crack in the window pane. julie baby it aint natural for you to cry in the midnight.

2011-12-14T17:48:00.007+13:00

i said open up the window and let me breathe

and i can almost smell your t.b sheets...

Halloween. Depression styles.

2011-11-01T19:17:00.009+13:00

inspired by a book of beautiful (and seriously creepy) vintage halloween photos called 'haunted air'.
i did mean to do all sorts of stuff to these.... coffee soaks and rips and aging. but i never did...thank you

rupertsberg girls for putting on your kansas costumes and getting out of bed on a sunday morning, and especially

kate and hera for such a fun gluey-handed mask making day. and thank you to the lovely guy who walked past with his gorgeous kids

and didn't mind when i pleaded to put them in the photos...even though the baby had a broken leg!!

Dear Frontier

2011-10-19T20:10:00.003+13:00

two of the most inspiring people i have met recently...hana & jake. mr and mrs. dear frontier.

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://dearfrontier.bandcamp.com/track/post-capitalist-prayer"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Post Capitalist Prayer by Dear Frontier&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

Of the Earth.

2011-10-04T15:21:00.005+13:00

...some photos for alexandra dodds

a wellington jeweler whose rings were made in the hearts of volcanos...

i'm sorry i made your favourite t shirt turn green.

2011-10-01T14:03:00.004+13:00

kris and i have been watching river cottage with much glee -

i've been having daily reveries of elderflower wine and bramble berries...

2011-10-01T13:30:00.005+13:00

went on a little walk with brooke - but the wind bit our ears and fingers off so we ran back to the car

and looked at seagulls instead... but later that day i purchased $10 salmon pink tramping boots so i can

climb about the hills this summer, deciding to put into action a new philosophy borrowed from keats,

of a life of sensations and not just thoughts!! i'm delirious with spring fever! xx

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music....

2011-10-01T12:49:00.005+13:00

a few more from my new favourite place x

Sisters of St. Rupertsberg.

2011-09-06T16:33:00.010+12:00

i can't get enough of these eight little rups. they're just a delight. every one.

and this was such fun!! playing ladylike in the greenhouse, wolf-whistles and pies...you must go and listen to them.

they are an extravaganza of melodies xx

awake the ground.

2011-09-01T14:26:00.008+12:00

it's spring! and the sun tickles the trees till they laugh green.

found the most amazing cemetery in wellington and i intend to spend a good many

summer hours sitting amongst it's warm and mossy stones. xx

little fox

2011-08-11T18:46:00.004+12:00

the amazing keinyo white painted this portrait of precious chloe from one of my photos.

he is a such talented artist and yet so generous in his praise of others. thank you keinyo.

ringed by copses of hazel in the watery mist of the morning...

2011-08-03T15:09:00.004+12:00

early morning in hamner springs. wandering the woods a while, while my friends brew coffee in the wooden house.

seen enough. the vision was there in every light. had enough. city rumblings off in the distance, at dusk, in sunlight, every which way. known enough.

2011-08-03T14:10:00.007+12:00

travelled the wild coast. called in to my pa's. there's magic here. magic....wanted to photograph everything!

took much willpower to put the camera down... next time i will capture the honeymead goblet glinting in the sun...

a winter ago, fast like a child in it's own head, i ran with the wild lapping of the tide-rips.

2011-08-03T13:09:00.005+12:00

we sailed away on a winter's day...

the first lighthouse.

2011-08-02T19:49:00.004+12:00

went on the most beautiful walk to a faraway lighthouse, which was run by mary jane bennett
after her husband died at sea...

three ghosts and a lighthouse...

2011-08-02T19:06:00.005+12:00

the path of fire.

2011-08-02T13:21:00.003+12:00

WitchGhetto

2011-08-02T12:30:00.003+12:00

this fine young fellow is my friday morning work mate, not to mention a very talented artist - who deleted his facebook account,

thus getting his very own blogpost in order to show him his own face. have a look witchghetto

Family Portraits.

2011-07-29T23:49:00.004+12:00

more of the cactus family. miss you red - where you been? x

Saint Hildegard

2011-07-14T10:53:00.005+12:00

i have a possible project coming up that i am very excited about...i hope it happens!

it involves this little sky dancer and her group of musically minded girls...

dark dog child

2011-07-12T20:03:00.007+12:00

thank you salmon fish. for coming into the woods with me. with whiskey in a jam jar

and building a circle of sticks. it's so dark in the dark and the dogs wander near...

Family Cactus

2011-07-12T19:53:00.003+12:00

polaroids from deep in the dark dark trees.

two's company.

2011-07-10T21:06:00.004+12:00

these have been sitting in my old camera for months now i think.

all but forgotten since the zenit came along....

lord of the flies.

2011-07-10T20:57:00.003+12:00

oh i love our house. even when the wind runs round and rattles the doors like bones....

things just look so yummy in bright white light...

French For Rabbits.

2011-06-28T12:32:00.002+12:00

lapin is. french for rabbits. and also brooke and john.

i really really can't get enough of these dreamy melancholic songs. beautiful beyond words. x

<a href="http://frenchforrabbits.bandcamp.com/track/twos-company">Two's Company by French for rabbits</a>
<a href="http://frenchforrabbits.bandcamp.com/track/claimed-by-the-sea">Claimed by the Sea. by French for rabbits</a>

French For Rabbits.

2011-06-28T12:07:00.004+12:00

starfish! gentle spiders of the sea...

in the last of the light, when the garden gets away...

2011-06-12T00:04:00.004+12:00

i love my nana's garden. it was so wonderous when i was a child, with it's stream, and white bridge,

and it's orchid house. i would drink lemonade and look for ducks...and i love how every year

it gets a little more decayed. but my nana's garden makes her sad. it was her pride and joy and now she is too old.

it begins to look like 'grey garden' ...but that wouldn't be a compliment to my nana!

honeybearbushman.

2011-06-11T15:08:00.007+12:00

on a bright rainy day my papa met us at the train, and we went for tea at my nana's.

2011-06-11T15:05:00.003+12:00

mysteries of archaic ground...

2011-05-29T18:23:00.003+12:00

long ago by the river. i read the secret garden and waited for the light.

FAMILY CACTUS

2011-05-29T17:49:00.007+12:00

new album out next week. spirit lights. dedicated to mira.

listen.

the walls changed hazily into the shadows of trees.

2011-05-22T15:49:00.004+12:00

so many things to adore. our new house filled with light and air.

my new zenit camera - a beautiful tank from the USSR. my precious friends and my love. x

From the courtyard her window shone like a living heart.

2011-05-15T18:40:00.003+12:00

new house.

after the flood...

2011-05-15T16:44:00.005+12:00

i just wanted to thank you all so much for your lovely words and encouragement. it means so much to me.

i get so dissatisfied and down, wanting every roll of film to be something spectacular...

sometimes it's just nice to take a walk in the park...

i can't get double exposures right to save myself!

forgotten.

2011-05-12T11:35:00.000+12:00

from the day we went to the zoo - there's a spider's web between the antlers...

there are cockles and broken glass spread across the floor...

2011-05-11T18:03:00.008+12:00

one misty mauve day i went for a drive, by the seaside, with brooke singer,

one half of a sublime duo called french for rabbits. i'm going to take some photos for their upcoming ep.

listen. oh do! it's so very very beautiful...

<a href="http://frenchforrabbits.bandcamp.com/track/claimed-by-the-sea">Claimed by the Sea. by French for rabbits</a>

the gift.

2011-05-10T19:06:00.005+12:00

i got the most perfect thing in the mail...

i adore you Aëla Labbé dancer and dreamer. x

A Season of Rain.

2011-05-10T15:20:00.007+12:00

we moved! to an apartment built in 1928. white tiles and radiators.

i miss the trees i used to pass on the hill. wreathed in mist.

crowned wth petty poppies. i made the whirling world stand still.

2011-05-10T15:19:00.004+12:00

2011-05-10T15:13:00.001+12:00

The House of the Spirits.

2011-05-05T19:01:00.003+12:00

2011-05-05T18:57:00.002+12:00

2011-05-05T18:40:00.002+12:00

Music for Egon Schiele

2011-04-21T18:06:00.002+12:00

chloe's room.

2011-04-16T16:00:00.004+12:00

bathed in camomile light.

last two are me. by chlo x

the bourgeoisie

2011-04-16T15:59:00.001+12:00

last photo by kris.

city oh sigh.

2011-04-14T18:18:00.002+12:00

my dear dear precious wonderful amazing friend sarah is in this band. listen...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...x

2011-04-14T18:10:00.002+12:00

early morning gentle rain/ two bumblebees/humming at their work.

2011-04-14T18:07:00.003+12:00

i have so much stuff i haven't posted - these are from a whole year ago! apologies for slack blogging!

the old lady/listening for jesus.

2011-04-14T17:25:00.002+12:00

swinging on delicate hinges/the autum leaf/almost off the stem.

2011-04-14T16:57:00.003+12:00

amazing old convent we climbed into through a hole in the wall. i'd just started taking

pictures when someone thought they had set off an alarm... we all panicked and ran - but i think it was probably a pigeon

...i can't wait to go back. the windows the stairs! the rows of tiny green basins...

A gentle whispering. Trees line the shadows edge.

2011-04-11T18:50:00.002+12:00

i've seen the low sun, flecked with mystic horrors, cast it's monumental, violet welts of light, like figures in an antique drama.

2011-04-05T20:44:00.009+12:00

Dawn and the child fell down at the foot of the wood.

2011-03-29T19:48:00.008+13:00

basil dances with the bird...

2011-03-29T19:47:00.002+13:00

In an old grandfather time, a ballad transpired here.

2011-03-17T22:48:00.015+13:00

this place is called avalon. really. truly. i spent seven hours reading the secret garden here,

eating wild blackberries, scratching my legs to find them. a river on one side. a highway on the other.

he was struck by the fidelity of this earth he inhabited and he bore it sudden love.

2011-03-17T22:03:00.009+13:00

Wild datura with pale strange trumpets, loosestrife and columbine among the iron inner works of autos scattered in the grass.

2011-03-17T18:45:00.008+13:00

rust in the woods.

the familial.

2011-03-17T18:22:00.004+13:00

tailors at sea.

2011-03-16T17:51:00.008+13:00

we went sailing in the bay of islands with kris's family. it was lovely. it was more than lovely. it was the sea.

Eunice and Hanif.

2011-03-16T16:50:00.004+13:00

hello. can anyone recommend a better photo hosting site? you may have noticed i keep exceeding my photobucket bandwidth!

i've used tiny pic for these but it takes forever to upload photos one at a time.

wah. anyways. these adorable monkeys are kris's mum's neighbours. she has taken the two afghani families living next

to her completely under her wing. they adore her and she adores them. especially the children who shower her daily with kisses and cuddles.

they were such a delight. especially these two brothers who i played cricket with in the backyard. they were just such sweethearts!

the blue danube...

2011-02-26T23:41:00.001+13:00

finding my mother's people.

2011-02-26T23:14:00.008+13:00

these were taken in Wanaka. the day after a friends wedding.

i was so tired and hungover. so dazed i could hardly stand up. i was on my way to my camping cabin with a friend to sleep.

but the light was so amazing, and i knew i would regret being lazy. and i know i have to make the most of every opportunity i get

outside the city...so i picked up my tripod and went walking through fields...opening farmers gates and climbing over fences...

it was like walking in a dream. i was so tired! delirious nearly. i kept hearing all the sounds of the wind as an angry farmers car.

i would freeze... but no car would come. he was probably having a whiskey and watching tele in his house...

when i got to the cabin my friend was fast asleep. x

sorry for not posting in so long. and thank you all so much for the lovely comments you write.

The Beckoning Trees.

2011-01-25T12:58:00.003+13:00

i turned 30. i had a picnic in the park. x

meow. fish x

2011-01-22T15:40:00.002+13:00

welcome home red. i missed you when you were in the apple.

the offering.

2011-01-22T15:25:00.003+13:00

had this idea in my head for months - but i couldn't get it quite right...

Dreamer-Of-The-Sun.

2011-01-19T20:14:00.005+13:00

2011-01-12T00:23:00.005+13:00

we have a new camera! a beautiful motorized nikon. i had to download a 45 page manual off the internet to figure out

how to use it...and hence i'm still very much baffled - as i always am by cameras actually! there's not a technical bone in my body.

it has a wide angle lens that's so wide it bends straight lines. and it's so very crisp.

but anyway - i'm so excited. i can finally do double exposures! this was my test film...

the little sparrow on the eave drainpipe/my heart flutters.

2011-01-01T22:55:00.003+13:00

happy new year lovelies xx

I am big-boned and fey in the dust of the day and in the dirt of the day...

2010-12-26T10:10:00.004+13:00

I slept as though dead dreaming seamless dreams of lead...

2010-12-21T12:35:00.003+13:00

it's all okay in okains bay.

2010-12-21T12:14:00.006+13:00

just got back from a weeks camping in pine forests and lagoons. so i've got heaps of photos waiting and all the dirty laundry's being done.

It was the voice of Nature awakening at the dawn of the Æon, as Aiwaz uttered the Word of the Law of Thelema.

2010-12-18T21:10:00.005+13:00

And he shall hear the articulate utterance of that Fire, interpret the thunder thereof as a still small voice in his heart.

2010-12-18T19:43:00.010+13:00

this is just up from my dad's place. up a steep steep steep hill....on the way down i got into 'a bit of bother'

meaning i got myself rather stuck, and had to abandon my tripod to the wilderness in order to make it down

with my neck intact...four days later i found a better tripod sitting beside a recycle bin!

gin soaked x

walking over the water/my shadow,/heavier than lead.

2010-12-17T22:28:00.010+13:00

i find Stephanie Di Giusto so inspiring!

the first americans.

2010-12-06T18:34:00.004+13:00

an amazing inspiring friend of mine Anna Hudak and her husband Nico have made a documentary

about the blackfeet tribe in montana, and in particular 3 young people who "struggle

to live in a country they do not identify with, and yearn to connect to their traditional roots."

it looks incredible. stunning. sad. it sort of blew me away watching the trailer and my eyes welled up -

and i can't wait till the day i actually get to watch it all!

Americans Teaser from counter production on Vimeo.

2010-12-04T23:04:00.002+13:00

mea and sienna baby. live in little lyttleton. x

the possum in the roof. and her first horse ride in her uncles baby cowboy boots.

2010-12-04T22:59:00.006+13:00

θέλημα thélème

2010-11-30T13:19:00.007+13:00

listen...

folktales.

2010-11-24T22:10:00.007+13:00

i was interviewed for the consciousness and roots blog.

horse child breakfast.

2010-11-24T21:55:00.005+13:00

WHITECLIFFS

2010-11-24T21:10:00.009+13:00

this is such a magical place! with skulls and streams and appaloosa horses. it's where my friend

of so many photos, mea grew up. and where her parents held the legendary whitecliffs music festival

...emmylou harris played right there - on that stage that stands like a ghost in a dusky field.

...for Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Iluvatar.

2010-11-23T21:08:00.009+13:00

amiria grenell.

THERE are seven keys to the great gate, Being eight in one and one in eight.

2010-11-23T16:16:00.002+13:00

burn the river dry.

2010-11-15T21:35:00.002+13:00

my first attempts x

in watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. i'll tell you about it because i am here and you are

2010-11-15T21:15:00.006+13:00

distant.

our lives we have carefully constructed from watermelon sugar and then travelled to the length of our dreams, along roads

lined with pines and stones. i have a bed, a chair, a table and a large chest that i keep my things in. i have a lantern

that burns watermelontrout oil at night. that is something else. i'll tell you about it later. i have a gentle life.

such a beauty. listen.

we call everything a river here. we're that kind of people.

2010-11-15T20:54:00.008+13:00

my beautiful bird friend mea x listen.

2010-11-15T20:37:00.004+13:00

more animals please! i want more animals around me. to carry my handbag and put me in pictures.