Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
How the sky stays above us
I am changing now the congregation of years not age so much as a ripening view and I have started speaking to trees one big...
Bionic enhancements queue
Bionic enhancements queue Every time I go through airport security now the queue is longer. I stow everything I can decently...
Andrew
Their house has the taste of salt Pictures framed for satire Balsamic vinegar ripening Offset with olive oil They know themselves What they love What...
Bashar al-Assad
I asked her to draw her home for me Ben Quilty Using the old cryptographs Heba, at the age of six, has managed...
Iris
I was told experience mattered. This is a lie, at least when it comes to light. I’ve drunk decades of it and...
Expert judgment on markers
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves a powerful culture. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to...
Conversation
He held the light for me I saw the door there was no Spot – outside and inside. It was my first day In the new house. Dad,...
Pursuit music
We drove for years past Super 8s & motor inns, blue neon swimming like luminol across the windscreen, cruised by phone...
Cape York
When you arrive at the tip of the Cape, the coast opens its arms and you’re split into the rivulets left...
The morning fog (A Golden Shovel after Kate Bush)
is sweetest at the Tropic of Capricorn, the colour of lemon chiffon cake, and just as light. It might begin with...
Ingredients for preservation
Wear calico dress with Blueboard shoes, Corflute wings, Mylar glasses, dangling Ethafoam earrings. Create houses for each object. Know what is inside without a reference image. Bundle up...
Meteorology
I can predict the future. A little. And everyone loves to talk about the weather. I find what patterns I...
