iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thank you! But no, to be fair I have dabbled with watercolour a little. This was the first time I’ve just grabbed paper and said - just do something! From nothing, just imaginings. I made that sound more than it actually is ☺️

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My first attempt at a quick and simple watercolour. Trying to challenge my perfectionist tendencies while building some new skills. #watercolour

A simple, minimalist watercolour painting of a mountain and an evening sky. The clouds are tinged with purple and pink, the mountain is green with the outline of trees in the foreground. A brown path leads out of the scene with the hint of a shadowed figure walking on it.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Test print - I like it! I think it’s close. Things I’d do differently but it’s hard to uncut lino! #linocut #printmaking

A monochrome, blue-black, Linocut print of a magpie in a bell jar. The bird stands on a block and appears to be singing. Oddly, its skeleton is also visible as if we’re perhaps also looking at an x-ray.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Reggae covers of Radiohead songs should be illegal. Maybe even punishable by death.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I’m getting ready for work while my dog lives my best life 🤷

A very handsome whippet is sleepily wrapped in a doona that has a native Australian print.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Test prints of my most recent lino cutting. I’m happy with the design but still learning how to work with ink. #lino #linocut #printmaking

Three test prints of a lino cutting in a row next to the original lino cutting. The cutting is a magpie feather surrounded by a thick border. The first print is on office paper and is pretty rough, the other two are on a good quality off white paper and have been cut so the borders are of different widths. The artist (me) has included a simple signature in the right hand corner.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This is just the distraction I needed today - a wee drive in my delightful brown Alfasud. So good to have you back you pretty lil’ car you! #alfaromeo #alfasud #alfisti

The beautiful, simple interior of a restored 1974 Alfasud being driven by a very happy me.

My brown 1974 Alfasud parked in a suburban street in Melbourne. So cute.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I really admire your capacity to re-establish a new kind of relationship with the church and to nurture and support the good things happening within it. Happy Anniversary….?

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thanks for sharing Matt. The bit about being hurt by a bad system where no-one takes responsibility and there’s no accountability really does suck and I’m sorry it was allowed to happen to you.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Magic. The rest will follow 🪄

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I feel it’s a good time to admit that although I follow you, I had worn this t-shirt around for “some time” before I realised you were the artist 🤭 A fabulous print for a tee 👏

Woman smiling wearing a black t-shirt with the artists RefuJesus print on the front

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Mossy sea crone in soft pants if you don’t mind 🧙

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I know someone out there needs to see this today 🐶❤️ #dog #cute #whippet

A whippet sleeps on a beanbag cuddling his teddy. His head rests on the teddy while his front right paw and leg curls around it. His tennis ball is by his side.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I’ll take 1 and 4 please. Pleeeeeaaase?🪄

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My second linocut print so why not try two colours?! Actually, that’s the question - why? What drives this? It’s been hard work getting to this point and there’s still a way to go… so why? No really… why? I honestly don’t get it. #linocut #lino #print

A linocutting of a stem or orchard flowers ready for printing

A very rough print of a stem of orchards. The border and leaves in the lower left corner are a dark green while the flowers are a dark dusty pink colour. The green border is patchy however the detail in the flowers is pretty good.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Dang, this is the wall poster I need… ✨

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/10/2025

Share if you agree

Fat little brown/white/grey bird with a yellow tummy stands on concrete with flora behind it

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This is where a “yes” rather than “like” button would be good….

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This one’s my new favourite 🏆

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Can the editors of the Age/SMH explain why they still run pictures of some Aboriginal people without their names in a caption? And why photos of Aboriginal people from central Australia are creatively half-framed with an image of dirt? Let's hear the reasons out loud, see how they sound.

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Big T @big-tony.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

So, let me get this straight. Jewish people now have a Voice to parliament? No referendum. Not even a parliamentary vote. Simply appointed by the PM. Now don't get me wrong, good on them, but I might be just a little jealous. 🖤💛💔

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Thanks Mick, a great, timely reflection for this time of lent.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I’m not sure what just happened…. 🍄‍🟫

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

@vintageobscura.bsky.social is the best thing that’s happened to me in a long time 🎶💛💚🧡💛🥰

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Jarrod McKenna 🦘 @jarrodmckenna.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Elder, Human Rights hero and fascism resister, William Cooper, is important to remember, especially today.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Maybe it’s a reflection on the state of the world that this post is making me laugh so hard this morning 😂🍄 🍄‍🟫

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

5/5 Krill, and people living with intellectual disability, shouldn’t have to prove their value to be protected, included, cherished and celebrated for what and who they are. This ranking of life is a weird and arrogant quirk of humanity that we need to resist if we truly love God’s good creation.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

4/5 Of course, we do it to people too. As a parent of a young man with significant intellectual disability, people still like to reassure me he might contribute to society, provide value, through paid employment one day - even if that’s underpaid, mundane work that offers him little incentive.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

3/5 …food chains or ecosystems, he wanted acknowledgment of their importance in their own right, as unique creatures on the planet, the same way we speak about elephants and tigers. Which brings me back to krill, and our human nature to “value”creatures based on their “value” to us.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

2/5 …and how entire ecosystems, and our very existence, would be screwed without them. Many years later I worked at Melbourne Zoo and applied for an Insect Keepers role. I didn’t get it. The Head Keeper told me that when he asked “why insects?” he didn’t want to hear about their importance in…

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Thread. 1/5 Antarctic Krill. A “keystone species of the Southern Ocean, providing food for many important and charismatic marine creatures, from fish to whales”. When I was young I was fascinated by Antarctica and its delicate and important ecosystems. I learned the importance of krill…

An amateur pencil and water colour drawing of a single Antarctic Krill. Its multi-sectioned body tinged with orange and green.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Ohhhh, I don’t wanna like this but…. Yup 🙏🙏🙏

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Post-COVID illness has forced me to pay attention to my body in a way I haven’t in a long time. Because when I don’t, I LITERALLY drop. Not being able to “push through” has made me curious about how else I subconsciously seek, or even depend, on needing permission for authentic self expression. (2)

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Meanwhile… 21 days post +ve RAT and I am still feeling like a sack of 💩 This COVID shitfuckery can get in the bin 🦠🗑️

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Whaa?! This has made my day - I’m on team Panther Cap! 🥰🍄

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Whaaa??!! This is the best!! I’m hanging with team Panther Cap 🥰

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Djoongari are a threatened Aussie rodent once widespread before European settlement, now only found on five islands off the coast of Western Australia. Nicknamed “shaggy mouse” they are nocturnal and like to eat flowers and green vegetation. They are also super cute. #drawing #nature

An amateur drawing in pencil and watercolours of a “shaggy mouse” - djoongari. Its fur is long with golden/brown colouration and it crouches in sand.

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Equal parts LOL and OWWWWW! Sorry you’re going through this, wishing you a lot lot lot less pain 🙏

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Fi Bottcher @feigh-creates.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I love capturing the tenacity of life during my daily wanderings. Something about Life insisting on living just because that’s what it does! #sacred

Fungi growing between the bottom of a wooden fence and a lichen covered asphalt footpath

A small brown mushroom grows out of a wooden outdoor chair.

Moss and tiny plants growing out of a brick wall. The wall is white, and the plant life grows from a spot where the concrete rendering has broken off exposing the brick behind it. The green contrasts against the white.

A tiny garden grows from the top of a wooden pole. The pole is a flood water marker and at the bottom left of the photo is the torso of my whippet who is brindle and white!

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