TINY FEBRUARY

Recently landed: Tiny February

To paraphrase the curator Chus Martínez, at the recent farewell artists’ brunch, sometimes things might look like an ending, but they are often just the beginning. The transition from one state to another, it can often be read this way. And so it felt, for The giant flower festival for the opening weekend of the A velvet ant, a flower and bird exhibition: the start of a community, and ideas to delve into.

An embodiment of this feeling was the rescue of a female ringtail possum with Ingela and Peter. Named, Ingeborg, the possum, found exposed on a third-storey open-balcony stairwell in North Fitzroy, and called into Wildlife Victoria, had a very large pouch. Once tucked up to rest in an enclosure indoors, upon examination, we discovered Ingeborg was with two joeys.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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28th of February, 2026

After dark, we returned with Ingeborg, Chully and Jo, and held our carrier up to the tall tree that connects to the third-storey balcony. From the pouch inside, she paused and listened.