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Gabriella Day

22/06/2024 - 17/07/2024

Gabriella Day, ‘Untitled (Studio #3)’, 2023

 

Gabriella Day, ‘How Long Can I Be an Artist for?’, 2023

 

Gabriella Day, ‘Butterfly Hinge’, 2024

 

The Best Parts Only
Gabriella Day
22/06—17/07/2024
Open Sunday 12–5pm + by appointment.

 

One chip in the wall will soak up all the paint

I hold the porcelain of

What-ifs in a hand

Too big to

Fit the moment

I want only the best

Parts of

The story

 

Peter the Rabbit poised to take over the company there are assets sir that must be drunk solemnly I don’t care about them, so glad I happened to come in this moment cleansed of intent holding all the Legos in the world knowing there are more there are some between my toes sir sir I have retrieved the legos but I don’t need them anymore

 

Snowball of objects

Thrown

Against the wall

 

I have

Favorite words for each

Of my poems

For this one it’s

“the” the rest

Of it is table wide matter speaking picture

For all I care

I

Killed three poems to

Write this

One and that

Is a marvellous

Thing like inhaling

 

From a breathalyser

Ripping apart

The notebook

So as to

Make it

Exact in

The stupid

Way it was

Always

Meant to

 

Be an invitation

To think but

I am a sad

Useless basketball

 

I use natural

Light as

A backdrop or

Whatever he said

Before

Crossing it out

How many times

 

Must I write words that

I can no

Longer read after

Carsies Mr.Darcy?

Carsick pansy

Come in

I’ve just cut open

The painting

It will be ready

In four to

Five hours

– Leo Bussi

 

Photo Credit: Malcolm Cochrane

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