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Perdita Phillips

@perdy.bsky.social

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walking, listening, mapping, animals, minerals, plants, ecologies, installations, exchange, photography, drawing, collage, videos, eclogues www.linktr.ee/perditaphillips

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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 2d

Three police officers struggle to handcuff inflatable penis

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 2d

Getting ready for shear zone open studio this morning. Wondering what this project plan drawing will end up like. Wayfinders by Sarah Tomasetti, blank paper and moss covered limestone rocks by Perdita Phillips.

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t wait for the technocrats to say that forests should be deleted because the haven’t met their KPIs www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

www.theguardian.com

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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 5d

I know. tsundoku pile! There’s always poverty so you can’t afford to buy them in the first place! 📚📖📓📕

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 5d

Some crackers there

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 8d

If anyone is in Walyalup/Fremantle this Sunday 19 October we are having an open studio 10-12 for Shear Zone

Shear Zone residency. Penny Coss Perdita Phillips Sarah Tomasetti Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre this Sunday 19 October, 10:00 to 12:00.

Hand holding book with words fossil Perdita Phillips against a background of a shallow lake

Sculpture by Penny Coss: rock on top of glass cast geological pick head against black background

Artwork by Sarah Tomasetti. Rough unstretched canvas with fresco coverings in muted blue, brown, white and red ochre finishes

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 9d

Australian ravens razzling the bottlebrush blossom

Close up bottle brush blossom in footpath

Footpath and road with various ages of dropped blossom

Raven in bottlebrush tree foraging in blossom

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Miki Perkins @mikiperkins.bsky.social · 11d

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 16d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 17d

Stereographs made as part of Lithic Traces in the Archive (my Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria)

Overlapping stereograph cards with black and white photos and silver letterpress on green card

A person peers through a stereoscope at a stereograph card

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 19d

Our first letter to the forest has arrived: this one by Jane Donlin.

Dear forest, with awe and gratitude

A scene of serrated banksia leaves and cones

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 21d

I loved this book. In particular the not neat ending

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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 23d

State capture? 🤣

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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 28d

Cogent!

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Sep 16

Finding them in the middle of a Leederville carpark a few years ago 😲

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Sep 16

Sounds really interesting! I specifically made a trip to see the museum as a commonwealth scholar in 1997.

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Sep 15

🥔🙃 Mr Potatohead of the bird world

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Sep 14

What do you know about sonifying video?

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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Sep 13

Responses in the form of a letter to/communication with the forest can literal or metaphorical interpretations.

Draw/paint/write/print/collage your writing/marks/responses/epistolary/communication on paper 20 cm high and x 23 cm wide. Full details at lethologicapress.org/a-letter-to-...

a letter to the forest – Lethologica Projects

lethologicapress.org

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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Sep 13

Will you send A letter to the forest? You are invited to write a letter to the forests of Southwest Western Australia for inclusion in a book to be bound in the forest, near Northcliffe, Western Australia.

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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Sep 7

From the government that now does #unscience

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Wish I wasn’t in one of the world’s most workaday extractive states (on the other side of the earth) www.perditaphillips.com/portfolio/te...

Terrane Project – Perdita Phillips

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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Having flashbacks to undergrad in the sciences (my visual arts undergrad school operated in the sheds that the gardeners left when they got new facilities)

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · Sep 2

Little (?) known fact: it’s a sine qua non condition for university accreditation in the US that the main hallway of the biology department MUST look EXACTLY like this

Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s a drake

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Cressida Dunnart @cdunnart.bsky.social · Aug 26

Very rarely have butcherbirds here… only one visits, and very occasionally
Suspect the currawongs & magpies crowd them out

Marc Anderson @wildambience.bsky.social · Aug 26

Predawn song of a Pied Butcherbird in early spring. Before sunrise at this time of year the song of butcherbirds (and Australian Magpies) is often made up of simpler, more repetitive phrases than the typical full song heard later in the morning - but it's still sublime!

#wildoz

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