Bücher von Pascoe

Fairfield is where diverse peoples have settled, often after long journeys from far away. Its Station Street is something of a welcoming home for many, a casual, happy village. A charming railway station, a giant wooden dog called Fido and numerous independent shops give it an easy air. The combination of angle parking and parallel parking let people and cars weave without much honking. A market town in its own style, Fairfield has manners without pretention. You can say hello! With scissors and coloured papers, along with some poems, I have sought to create an individual idea of the place - like as if Piet Mondrian had visited. Look around and you too will see patterns and shapes behind the more obvious ones of shop goods and people's clothes, under an Australian sky.

This book is a tribute to that wonderful artist Rosalie Gascogne. As a child I lived in an old house in Richmond. Rogers Street was thin and had painted houses on each side, musty pinks and faded blues were set off by green ferns. My billycart had red wheels, completing the colour wheel under the yellow sun. Many years later I instantly clicked when I saw and purchased art works by her from Pinacotheca and 312 Lennox Street galleries; but we are only custodians of art and sometimes they go. Like memories, they are ours but not, nevertheless planting seeds that may grow. This collection of paper collages is a creative response to several passions. Confusion has its role too. It's arranged as a tidy sequence and I hope you detect some musicality to it, as it plays in your mind. Time pushes us forward and it's nice to make something of it. Be kind to those you love is its message.

The engineering designer is always limited by the properties of available materials. The engineer must know this if he is to make intelligent use of the data on properties of materials that he finds in handbooks and tables, and if he is to exploit successfully new materials as they become available.