“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“The variety, charm and beauty of life, are made up of light and shade…” Leo Tolstoy I don’t recall everything that I studied for my surgical primary examination, but I do remember that the minimum brightness for an operating theatre light was 1000 lux. I was also taught that a lux was the output of… Read more

On a recent trip to Darwin, I encountered this work in person. I am late to the party for this important indigenous artist, but the deceptively simple, but confident mark making he employs is compelling. The piece is synthetic polymer paint, applied with a palette knife. The history of the palette knife is interesting. The… Read more