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Tag Archive: poetry

21 Mar

‘learning Auslan’ & World Poetry Day

poem: learning Auslan. There are so many ways learning Auslan positively impacts my life. This is just a small ‘thank you for sharing your language with me’ kinda poem.
March 21, 2021 at 10:46 am 1 Comment
15 Sep

little love song

Lovingly hand-stitched, little love song is a response to the exhibition theme ‘Swatch’.
September 15, 2019 at 3:22 pm
02 Aug

Tram Stop 6 – Way To Go

Some years ago I wrote little concrete poems for a large, very concrete space. They were turned into street signs and pinned in place. They are still there…
August 2, 2019 at 12:07 pm Leave a comment
17 Sep

landing

landing explores themes of uprootedness, connecting and coming in to land.
September 17, 2018 at 3:52 pm
07 Sep

home

“a portal to those intangible things like love and kindness”
September 7, 2018 at 5:05 pm
22 Aug

tumbleweed

A sphere-like mess of tangled betrayal lies at the base of my spine.   A collation of mistrust and misdeeds, those fine strands of spinifex that bind together so easily…
August 22, 2018 at 5:22 pm 1 Comment
12 Oct

leaving

Encouraged not to alter the artwork, visitors are invited to leave with an individual leaf.
October 12, 2017 at 5:18 pm Leave a comment
29 Oct

apology

apology attempts to spin a bunch of love poems into a sorry that was never said.
October 29, 2016 at 1:41 am
19 Oct

waiting at the stop.

our breath exchange is paused. lingering …
October 19, 2016 at 12:14 am
08 Aug

Threads of Industry

  Threads of Industry – Changing Place, Making Place h.ART group exhibition Old Onkaparinga Woollen Mills, Lobethal SALA Festival 2016   works:  All lovingly created with artefacts from the old Onkaparinga Woollen…
August 8, 2016 at 1:49 pm 2 Comments
02 May

I Noted this for you

Didn’t make it to Noted but want a piece, a sense, a souvenir? Enjoy sneaky peeks at other’s mail? my Postal Project has you covered.
May 2, 2016 at 9:36 pm 2 Comments
11 Mar

postal project callout – Noted

Can’t make it to Noted Festival but want a piece, a sense, a souvenir? Are you feeling a little isolated – geographically or otherwise? Do you seek connective threads?
March 11, 2016 at 4:21 am 2 Comments
10 Nov

Flowers for ‘Abyan’

Today, I’m snuffing red rose petals remembering those times before social media when I would write poems not status updates.
November 10, 2015 at 11:12 am Leave a comment
03 Oct

blanket silence

blanket silence is a document designed to be worn when speaking is shut down.
October 3, 2015 at 9:26 pm
03 Oct

dust jacket

Collections shelved, these words they gather dust.
dust jacket explores the decommissioned nature of a work (un)published.
October 3, 2015 at 7:11 am 1 Comment
08 Sep

Poet Tree

A temporal public artwork.

Kings Park Spring Festival 2015
September 8, 2015 at 2:11 pm 2 Comments
21 Jun

(with(in)side) out – in progress

“human you are a cell within the body of the work”
(with(in)side) out is a thought-data experiment, invites you to dissect the uncertainties of your own form.
June 21, 2015 at 7:27 am Leave a comment
19 Jun

enveloping connection

To the very human you,
This project is bare bones seeking.
It’s a small, quiet experiment in reaching out and rethreading connection.
It’s about enveloping the atmosphere of moments, for them to be unwrapped later, somewhere else, by another.
June 19, 2015 at 8:10 am 5 Comments
08 Oct

in.definite

artwork title: in.definite  artist statement: This work explores the relationship between the human right to liberty and fair trial and the current laws regulating the treatment of refugees in Australia.…
October 8, 2014 at 10:14 pm Leave a comment
15 Sep

curiously omitting

I love …
that poetry never truly achieves its original or specific goal,
but touches upon another deeply and with no remorse.
September 15, 2014 at 8:19 am 3 Comments
31 Jul

Breaking Up

an unfortunate account of my first time in publishing If you asked me how I am feeling right now, the answer would be sad but simple: broken. I feel raw…
July 31, 2014 at 9:19 am 9 Comments
23 Jan

The Poetry of Object 0.1

“Eli creates her own unique language, a ‘poetry of the object’. In their ‘silence’ these pieces speak volumes …” Jordana Lennox
January 23, 2014 at 5:14 am 1 Comment
13 Nov

NEST

NEST residency and showing Sept 2013 For one week a gorgeous room in The Goodwood Institute gave home to the residency project NEST. This occasion offered space and structure to the whispered beginnings of an…
November 13, 2013 at 1:58 pm Leave a comment
20 Nov

in this place called mine

in this place called mine audio visual poem, indigo eli, 2012 outdoor screening at PLACE 2012, Australian Institute of Architects Take Your Place film competition joint winner, 27+ age category © Indigo…
November 20, 2012 at 12:00 am 2 Comments
01 Feb

a month of writing letters

project aim:
Write a letter each day the post gets collected
during the month of February in the year 2012.
February 1, 2012 at 5:08 am Leave a comment
27 Nov

curiously omitting

Performed at the 2011 Australian Poetry Slam National Final in the Sydney Theatre © Indigo Eli. Terms of Use.
November 27, 2011 at 12:00 am Leave a comment