In this fantastic conversation with Lucy, we discuss all things art, the importance of and connection to Place, keeping ducks peacocks and chickens, and evolving etiquette in the socio-technological era. This might be my new favourite podcast I've done so far, and I really hope you enjoy it too.
CORRECTION: When I refer to Frasier Island, I was of course meaning to refer to Flinders Island. Oops.
- Art - Painting; earth pigments; natural dyes; foraging for pigments
- Foraging Around The Edges - eucalyptus; lichen.
- The intention behind Lucy's art.
- Endangered and rare species of South Gippsland.
- Terroir - art; plants; food.
- Elaeocarpus reticulatus - Blueberry Ash
- CORRECTION: Flinders Island, not Frasier Island.
- Origination of plants and adaptation.
- The Niche - environmental conditions; coastal plants; reflections on people and on living spaces - modernism; the cost of aesthetics.
- Loch - the brought in home - 'The Windsor' - a 1914 Edwardian weatherboard home.
- The realities of relocating an early 20th century weatherboard home.
- The veggie patch - A highly inventive and useful chicken run
- How noisy are ducks compared to chickens?
- Caring for ducks
- Back on to endangered species.
- Places around Gippsland - Wonthaggi; Nyora; Powlett River; Foster Beach.
- The Westernport - Mangroves - Jawbone Reserve.
- Wilson's Promontory - During COVID.
- When the eye can rest across long distances.
- Sound and the ear; the boundaries of perception.
- Business in a rural area - selling art.
- Making a living as an artist.
- Making the Wilde Wilbur Podcast - long conversation; embarrassment and real life - we don't always say what we mean to; censorship.
- How social media warps our sense of social reality and conditions our social etiquette - online personality vs. real life personality.
- Being selective with who you approach.
- Etiquette - non responses - lack of communication - technological shortcomings.
- Emojis - In the veggie patch - seed saving; pumpkins; cornflowers
- Favourite flowers to paint - proteas; banksias
- Banksia coccinea - Scarlett banksia