Carrion Foreword (not for the feint-hearted)

Carrion began as a really bad cartoon about birds eating roadkill and carry on luggage. Perhaps in moving to Tasmania what was predominated my mind was the never-ending road kill and the dilemma about what to take backwards and forwards on flights?

However, it is as always part of continuing work. You will find echoes of it in ‘A year of Envelopes’, where the need to express some of the ironies and laughs (if you don’t laugh about it you’ll cry), happily landed with the urge to make use of the empty envelopes.

And for those who know me well, over the past few years in Melbourne I was actually collecting and making clay casts of flattened roadkill (amongst other things) in Melbourne, which were always birds.

Anyway, Carrion, never went forward in any clear direction, or order, and most of the time its not funny and sadly its not even finished! I can see glimpses of where it can go, glimpses of how I can work in more daily life, but it all remains mostly elusive.

Most of all I offer my apologies. I fondly call it the worst cartoon ever, because I don’t care if its funny or not.

But here you are reading it, so perhaps you might gain some small smirk, laugh or wry smile in the knowledge that I was laughing and shrieking and grinning the whole time I was making it.

Debbie Harman

 

Above: 1 Cats Cats Cats

Above: 2 But why but!

Above:3, Cacciatore?

Above: 4 – Cark! Cark! Cark!

Above:5 catbird

Above:6, don’t get into a flap!

Above: 7, got the takeaway luv!

Above: 8, hey diddle diddle

Above: 9, I dunno, its always so difficult

Above:10 – I know, I know, carton, theres a meal at the end of the road . . .

Above:11 – ‘I’m taking Martha on one of those gastronomical tours . . .

Above: 12, In the old days there were no cars

Above:13 – it has a missing leg

Above:14 – I’ve run out of recipes for cat

Above: 15- Just give this feathers a fluff  . .

Above: 16, look I’m sick to death . . .

Above:17, mmmmm roast . . .

Above: 18 – Mum look, three at once!

Above:19 – my leg ached last week . . .

Above:20 – oh Amir . . .

Above: 21 – carrion! organic and freegan . . . .

Above: 22 – some weekends you just get the near-end of everything

Above:23 – really!

Above: 24 – shall we go somewhere different next week?

Above: 24 – sorry love but theses a 7kg limit . . .

Above: 25 – sweetheart, I’m home!

Above: 26 – Uncle Seb!!!!

Above: 27 – I’m not sure why we’re here . . . 

Above:28 – we met on old shale road . . .

Above:29 – when the feathers fly

Above:30 – you know when you don’t want to let the day go

Above:31 – wheres uncle harry?

Above:32 – why such a carrion really all we need is a saucepans worth

Above: 33 – yeah hang about

Above: 34 – you’ve got to give up this carrion on!