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Perdita Phillips
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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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Three police officers struggle to handcuff inflatable penis
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.
I know. tsundoku pile! There’s always poverty so you can’t afford to buy them in the first place! 📚📖📓📕
If anyone is in Walyalup/Fremantle this Sunday 19 October we are having an open studio 10-12 for Shear Zone
Australian ravens razzling the bottlebrush blossom
Reposted by Perdita Phillips
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Stereographs made as part of Lithic Traces in the Archive (my Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria)
Our first letter to the forest has arrived: this one by Jane Donlin.

Dear forest, with awe and gratitude
I loved this book. In particular the not neat ending
Finding them in the middle of a Leederville carpark a few years ago 😲
Sounds really interesting! I specifically made a trip to see the museum as a commonwealth scholar in 1997.
🥔🙃 Mr Potatohead of the bird world
What do you know about sonifying video?
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
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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.
From the government that now does #unscience
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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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)
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
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Very rarely have butcherbirds here… only one visits, and very occasionally
Suspect the currawongs & magpies crowd them out
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