Place

Back on the Griffin land axis

January 19, 2009 Art+Psyche

We Australians are often disparaging about Canberra – the large federal buildings “like white tombstones in the sun”, someone recently suggested to me. But I like visiting there, and whenever we go to the NSW South Coast we always take the inland route – as we did on our recent Christmas trip. Canberra bakes silently [...]

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New album – local views – words & numbers

January 17, 2009 Art+Psyche

Here’s a new album of local views, mainly Darlinghurst (the next suburb over from here): Words & Numbers Jan 2009. I’ve been inspired recently by Paul Butzi at Musings on Photography to go out on foot, regularly, attempting to really consider and reconsider my local environment, to attempt to photograph and revision it – and [...]

Tagged as: Photography, Place

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Heads from the North – Dadang Christanto

January 3, 2009 Art+Psyche

Driving back through Canberra yesterday on our South East NSW break, we stopped at the National Gallery of Australia. Here in the Marsh Pond (part of the sculpture garden) is a powerful work by Dadang Christanto, an Indonesian artist based in Darwin. The work looked impressive in the hard Canberra summer light. Dadang Christanto Heads [...]

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Paddington house

December 22, 2008 Art+Psyche

Beverly Kaye left me a lovely comment on my post Home – recent carving and as I strolled out from home yesterday for a coffee I thought of the way she’d put it, about the nature of a home: Home as castle, home as refuge, home as impenetrable fortress, home as sheer beauty. I’m lucky [...]

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"still a nice part of the world to live"

November 29, 2008 Art+Psyche

This article in the SMH, about the Southern Sydney suburb of Hammondville, has me thinking about houses again, and the places we make for ourselves. The local Labor member Alison Megarrity sees change happening in a 75 year old settlement that had an interesting beginning in 1930s depression times: Megarrity concedes time has caught up [...]

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