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We're just back from our latest trip to Kandos and I would just like to say that it's not a bad three and a half hour drive... especially when you don't have to suffer through an extra hour and a half of traffic when you get back to Sydney. Still, it was a very fun, relaxing trip with a lot of people meeting, wine drinking, some argument and general laughter. We met Tom Isaacs on his last day in town and got to hang out with him. Connie Anthes showed up next and we spent the rest of the week with her. It was very exciting to see the artists engage with the town and begin to think in that thinking that artists think... if you don't know any artists, you won't know what I'm talking about but if you do know a couple you will know its a kind of feeling around in the dark, the recognition of general shapes, the assessment of the general properties of available materials, physical and semiotic, the uncertain, not quite distinct form of an idea as it emerges in its still molten form. I'm sure I'm not allowed to give away too many secrets, but it was very encouraging to watch two of our artists cycle through ideas and possibilities, even make a few experiments and suddenly I felt like, damn, this is going to work. This art is going to be about this crazy town of Kandos and that's going to make a fantastic festival. Here are some of the pictures I took:
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