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Lehan’s Legacy

07 Sunday May 2017

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Friends of the Pig’s Arms

Our late and much loved friend of the Pig’s Arms, Lehan Winifred Ramsay left a substantial collection of paintings and photographs.

We are honoured to post these as a series and I am pleased to tell you that Lehan’s sister has asked me to offer the originals to our esteemed patrons.  The basis of exchange sought is that if you would like to acquire one or more of her works, you can make a donation to an organisation working for mental health support and research.

If you are interested in one or more of the works, post a comment and I’ll put your offer to Lehan’s sister and we can take it from there.

Peace and Love,

Emmjay

 

Lehan Winifred Ramsay

10 Sunday Jul 2016

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Lehan Leaving

Pig’s Arms Envoy, Lehan Winifred Ramsay

A tribute by Algernon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUWYdaXwWcQ

Part of a documentary about Mt Hakodate, interviewing Lehan Ramsay about her project; an exhibition of large black-and-white photographs of people and places in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Winter 2008-9.

I found this youtube video a while back. While it’s entirely in Japanese it does give us an insight into some of her work when she was living there. We also hear her speak as part of it.

Emmjay met Lehan in Sydney between her visits to Japan but I didn’t know Lehan personally, other than by her writings here and at The Drum and her artwork she so freely shared with us at the Pig’s Arms. We all know of her struggles with depression. Her time in Japan and return to Maclean where she had trouble settling back in, going back to Japan then returning again.

Depression and mental illness has touched some of us either directly or with family members. I’m distressed that she has succumbed.

I will miss her artwork, some of which can be found here http://lehanramsay.blogspot.com.au/ and the conversations where she would write a a stream of consciousness.

I will miss having her with us at the pub and the richness she provided to all of us.

Rest in peace Lehan.

Lifeline: https://www.lifeline.org.au/ Ph.13 11 14

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Make Believeness ?

26 Tuesday Jan 2016

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The Amazing (sic) Race

Story by Lehan Winifred Ramsay

I caught about fifteen minutes of the end of a television program. Perhaps it was called The Amazing Race. Contestants were racing around global point to global point peforming tasks of little significance to the game in order to receive instructions to the next global point and at this point they rushed to a Chinese city to dress up in glamorous ancientized attire and retrieve a fish icon by jumping from a height into the gloomy aerated pool of a huge water extravaganza. 

My next dream brought me what I suppose was my own version of the water extravaganza Kyoto style. The Chinese one appeared more like a casino show, and mine was I think a logical extension of the existing shrine and temple show of Kyoto and is probably only interesting to me. It involved a visit to a vista of gardens and little tea houses that were inhabited by lovely little people dressed as lords and ladies, a foot bathe in a carp pond, all documented by a famed poet by diagrams on a paper fan for use in a kind of fortune telling. 

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I explain that only because I am thinking that we appear to be ushering into our public life an even greater level of Make Believe historicalization. People today can buy much more fantasy extravaganza entertainment for themselves than they used to: entertainment that glorifies poverty and makes wealth look ordinary. 

One of the four contestant teams found themselves unable to retrieve a fish icon and I suspect it may have been a problem of contact lenses and grubby pools. Make Believeness may turn out to be what Europe is, was, we may adjust our nations system sideways into something very new.