EXHIBITION

In case you haven't heard, the exhibition in Brisbane opens on 16th. Oct at 8 p.m. and runs until the following Wednesday. The Fort have been very pro active in helping us setting up. As galleries go, it's quite unique, having a long history as one of Brisbane's more prestigious retail furniture emporiums called, oddly enough, Bell Bros.

The opening will be held in the inner courtyard - a garden hideaway - and is slated to be quite an event with various pleasures involved - live music music from the rivetting Kerbside Collection, refreshments, no bouncers, laughter and the purchase of fine artwork. What more could you want?

I promise to be there, with bells on, as the saying goes.

A big hurrah to Wayward Galleries who partner  in this enterprise. Elisa & Bec, u rock.

A NEW CATALOGUE

We, (meaning the various arms of my family) have just put together a catalogue from the 'Epiphanies' strain of work.

The intersting thing about it is, even though we're in the 21st. Century, it's not virtual, it just is.

Meaning you can carry it with you in actual form, without hiding it cyberspace.

For a look at this revolutionary idea of reality, contact me on johnbellsigns@gmail.com, or using the old telling bone 07 3376 0777.

Meaning

Meaning

16^th Jan. 09

If I don’t keep searching for deeper understanding, what’s to become of me?

If I don’t ponder & wonder existence, what is life ?

This habit I’ve developed over the years of striving for greater acceptance of the depths of life, even in it’s most mundane of forms, as a learning experience, has netted an endless supply of teaching.

How much life do we live?

Are we just shuffled from little place to little place by those who’s livelihood is using us?

The prescription of ‘lifestyle’ that’s meted out to us by our day to day culture is a business;

one that totes up income & expenditure, like any other enterprise. They float little distractions that will tickle our lives for a while, & bank the profit that we continually keep them in.

Apparently they know what we need to keep us healthy, content & well washed to walk around and around in emptiness.

We eat their pathetic food;

we read their dreary literature;

we dress in their shoddy clothes;

we barely communicate, in the vocabulary & tone that’s taught via television;

and we get drunk on their booze.

And it’s apparently enough.

My Bible has quite a different message, one that urges me to wake up from this soul slumber, for one day I’ll have to give account for what I’ve done or haven’t done with my understanding of my world & Who made it for me.

Ignorance is something we called out from, not a destination we arrive at.

Complacency – and it’s easy to be complacent living here in Brisbane – is a condition one step from fossilization, that our spirit just can’t contain or be contained in.

So much nonsense is served up to distract our minds from useful meditation. I’ve heard a lot in my life and, yes, I’ve danced to their tunes sometimes, to my shame.

But no more; I’ve opened my eyes to what lies behind this trashy smokescreen of babble – ‘what’s Paris wearing?’, ‘how dare they!, I’d never do that’, ‘ you never know some people, do you?’

It’s a habit that I now keep.

I’m always seeking to read better the label that’s on everything natural.

I believe that will make me a better human being, to help others to be better human beings & so escape this half-life of deciding if we want fries with that; to have a nice day; & do you want a bag?