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CREATION 716: SOLVE AS HAPPY

Every day we wake up we have the chance to discover a little bit of magic.

To discover a random act of kindness, to find a little magician or unicorn or lepricorn working away quietly in the bushes.

When I went up to Birds Paradise today to say goodbye to Omiha's tuis and fantails for perhaps the last time, I discovered someone had been there and converted my love mandala into a smiley face. 🐦

I have no idea who did this. Was it a tiny family of fantails like in Snow White & The Seven Dwarves or a native bush kiwi or a real human kiwi? What I do know irrespective of who did it, is it made me feel wonderfully happy. Thank you life.

It reminds me of the cover of Mo's book Solve For A Happy which Charly, who I mentor has kindly purchased a 2nd hand copy for me. x @mo_gawdat

It reminds me of Greta's desire to protect mother nature. And her smiley face, as opposed to her understandably hostile face when she saw Trumpy pass her for the first time.

It reminds me of Kingsley, who I mentor's big smiling face. It reminds me of Sophie who I mentor's smiling face, when I suggested we finish next week with a balloon face party 🎈

It reminds me of Kirstys smiling face when we giggled at the idea of creating a T-shirt screenprinted with 'Inferiority Complex Syndrome' on it. I love Kirstys artistic brain.

It also reminds me of Rys smiling face when I told him I wld write an article for SHAG MAG #5 ✊🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 And it reminds me of my Happy guru Mark's smiling face when he starts our Qigong class each morning. Which he does as free love. @markshayler

It also reminds me of my own smiling face when I see the fantails dance in front of my eyes, in nature's light.

Thank you Marian @marianelangmorandini who has been there for me every step of the way. 🙏🏻 Solve As Happy 🙂

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Kia ora koutou katoa,
Areez Katki here — good evening. How pleased to be posting this week, as the next Blumhardt Foundation artist.

I’ve been living in Pōneke over this period of lockdown — working on a handful of new projects & upcoming exhibitions, simultaneously crafting my Masters manuscript with the International Institute of Modern Letters, at Wellington’s Victoria University.

One of my current pieces of writing has taken form by initially addressing a certain sense of material longing; often missing my knitting needles & stash of fibers [from which I’m currently annexed]. I particularly miss the warmth of wool, the ways by which it aids us in keeping our hands & our minds occupied.

So on that note, I thought I’d commence by sharing this wee image of myself wearing a rather memorable garment: the swan jumper my mother & I hand knitted in 2007, for a particularly Björk themed Halloween.

A subject that I’ve been quite interested in exploring, is how such intergenerational conversations may be found [and retained] upon the surfaces of garments & textiles.

Considering how craft sensibilities have nurtured & protected us, educated us — probably directed us unwittingly, to some rather wonderful places.
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[Photograph by Darryl Ward for The Wool Lover, 2018]. @thewoollover @areezkatki

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Last week witnessed the launch of The Wool Lover, a digital journal devoted to all things wool. The first issue features Te Papa’s Claire Regnault @dressdetectiveagency on Mary Annette Hay. A young dynamo, Mary Annette combined theatre, fashion and history to promote ‘the miracle of wool’ to New Zealanders in 1940s and ‘50s.
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Other Wool Lover stories include an heartfelt homage to scout blankets, the rise of knitting on screen, and an interview with businesswoman extraordinaire Mavis Mullins, director of Paewai Mullins Shearing.
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You can see our entire Mary Annette Hay collection in full detail by going to the link in bio.
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Image 1 Ensemble, woman's day (dress and cloak), 1949, Paris, by Robert Piguet. Gift of Mary-Annette Hay, 2007. Te Papa (GH015674)
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Image 2 Ensemble, woman's day (dress, stole), 1949, by Elizabeth Henry. Gift of Mary-Annette Hay, 2007. Te Papa (GH015672)
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Image 3 Ensemble, woman's evening (dress and cloak), circa 1950, Paris, by Marie-Louise Bruyere. Gift of Mary-Annette Hay, 2007. Te Papa (GH015683)

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@Regran_ed from @dressdetectiveagency - This is Mary Annette Hay, wool promoter extraordinaire, in my most favourite gown from her collection - a wool mousseline evening dress by Marcel Rochas, 1948.
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The gown was one of many high end garments sent to the New Zealand Wool Board by the International Wool Secretariat to aid the promotion of wool on the post-war period.
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For more on Mary Annette's career and her collection, which is now held by Te Papa, see The Wool Lover at woollover.nz
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@thewoollover #maryannettehay #marcelrochas #wool #woolmousseline #woolfashions #internationalwoolsecretariat #nzwoolboard #fashionpromotion - #regrann #visforvintagenz #visforvintage #nzhistory #nzfashion #vintagenz #nzwool

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The Wool Lover is a project we’re following with great interest: a “visual, literary and cultural study devoted to a celebration of the wonder fibre wool” @thewoollover was conceived by Kirsty Cameron and Vivienne Stone and launches proper this year. ✨
Coincidentally, Kirsty Cameron is the daughter of our very own Nanette Cameron - though as you can see from this gorgeous image, that’s far from the only reason we love her work. Featured are the (wool) Godmother blankets designed by Kirsty Cameron - 📷Darryl Ward, styled by Katie Lockhart.
#repost from @thewoollover ✨
#katielockhartstudio #nzwool #stansboroughgreywool #textiles #thewoollover

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Magical inaugural Matariki Feast! Thank you all for all the fine kai and good times. Now fixed in the annual calendar. Marking our Aotean winter solstice and the Maori new year, let's make it a national holiday.

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When the world never ceases to surprise me 🗻 #isthisearth? #35mm

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Wow flashback courtesy of Martina

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Birdlings Flat with @thewoollover 🐜

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Mist at Birdling's Flat with @thewoollover - an eerie mid-shoot weekend escape 💎 #35mm #thechangeovermovie

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