Perdita Phillips
@perdy.bsky.social
walking, listening, mapping, animals, minerals, plants, ecologies, installations, exchange, photography, drawing, collage, videos, eclogues www.linktr.ee/perditaphillips
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
Old work from 2019. This one is in the City of Joondalup collection: Natura Autem Vivit, Sed Occisio de Felibus Cyanotype print (ed/var edition of 3) 92.5 x 131 cm
Made this little zine record of a walk I made in 2013 “walking the wasteland to the Point” that was part of preparations for the fast | slow | complex exhibition. Will be part of a new walking art exhibition in a few weeks time (and/or $10 AU + postage)
Would humans of the world please attend anger management classes Yours, Earth
MAKE THE MUMMY BREAD DRINK THE BOG BEER FUCK IT, MAKE CORPSE YOGURT AND DOOM PICKLES AND MONSTROUS MARMITE NOTHING MATTERS ANYMORE
New listening event Saturday 11-12:00 13 June at North Lake, Perth/Borloo “under a spreading Marri tree” as part of AININ’s worldwide Forests’ Secrets for Les Nuits Des Forets. DM for details
a volcano in my backyard? vimeo.com/1198553492 Documentation of field research on Dja Dja Wurrung Country from the Lithic Traces in the Archive project: subsidiary volcanic vent,
Studio procrastination. Watery patterns of ochre, Payne’s grey and botanical dyes over grey, oval-shaped prints
Do you wanna guess what the kids call anything that feels fake, hollow, or emotionally unresonant? They call it AI.
Unidentified River, Lake Disappointment, Unidentified River. SAD. 🤣
Wow! I had fun following a raindrop down to the Murray.
pictures of High Tide (folly) (1995) taken by Kirsten Sivyer. High Tide (folly), was a temporary installation in the Understory Art & Nature Trail at southern forest arts as part of
Rocks. Lots of. Photogravure. Images of subduction exhibition on website www.perditaphillips.com/portfolio/su...
🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty
The amazing Marri has been voted #EucalyptusoftheYear2026 🥳 This fabulous Western Australian #eucalyptus flowers en masse in the hotter months of summer providing essential resources for our native #bees and #inverts 🐞🪲🐝🦋 #ozflora #wildoz
📣ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! We are thrilled to reveal that the Marri, Corymbia calophylla, has won #EucalyptoftheYear2026! Not only popular with people, Marri is attended by more than 80 species of native bee and is a favourite bed & breakfast for threatened black-cockatoos and possums.
any plant nuts out here you must see #silentfriend. I loved the list of plants in the credits Half way through the movie the tips of the Norfolk Island Pines started talking to us #perthfestival
Rosette /Skull Nebula. 11/03/2026 45x180s in SHO. Esprit 100ED, ASI2600MM, 3nm filter in Ha, Sii and Oiii. #astronomy #astrophotography
In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...
Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless
Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's
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Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:
Ok so this is a question for everyone: I’ve been working on a project about finding the lithic (geological) in an archive. Needless to say I didn’t find more than traces of the more-than-human and at times I found extreme (if poetic) examples of colonialism instead.
May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
Interesting study, but coverage is undermined by using fake AI-generated fossils ("Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com") rather than authentic specimens. I am not aware of any actual Ediacaran fossils that look like this. To be clear, this is a criticism of Science Daily, not the authors of the study.
Silica-rich and iron-rich seawater in Ediacaran oceans enabled clay minerals to grow around the buried organisms, cementing sand into the shapes of the soft creatures, preserving impressions for all time ⚒️🧪🌊 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
two beaches one stranded starfish can be carried back to the sea a hundred dead starfish requires honesty 25.I.26
"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)