Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney until 3 February
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William Kentridge – that which we do not remember
Month: September 2018
Resist (Spring’s like-ness)
‘The poem must resist…’ Wallace Stevens
— the wisteria vine over an old fence like a weight-lifter’s bicep Continue reading
Coalface
February 2017: It’s Question Time in Australia’s Parliament. It’s been a difficult week for the Government: dire polls, grim economics, scandals and policy flip-flops. They need a circuit-breaker. The Treasurer steps up to address the House, in his hand is a lump of coal. Continue reading
Friday favourites…
The stranded angler
Lake Illawarra, 7 September 2018
the long flat – gone to white
ring of hills process through blue, grey, black —
bright enough for one small life. Continue reading
The mountain
— looms in massy grandeur
— glaciers and dark passes
— avalanches (like a verb) Continue reading
Not the thing itself, only ideas
after Wallace Stevens
Snagged on the headland’s ironstone the storm drains the bay. The water’s surface is electric (with possibility), rain inscribes Pythagorean forms – trios, polygons, hedrons – onto the second-rate swell. Continue reading
