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Stone secrets
Even as we gaze into the wondrous night sky in all its mystery, rarely do we take the time to wonder: what does it mean to live on an ancient planet, an Earth that keeps a careful archive in its bedrock?
Object impermanence
My work often looks at objects and spaces that are in danger of becoming obsolete; the idea of ephemerality is forefront of all my work. Memory also plays a significant role here – the speed at which children grow up and how quickly their tastes and interests change.
The mangroves of Boykambil
I REALISED TODAY that for most of my life I have searched for a premise to explain what I once saw and felt when I looked into the mangroves of Boykambil. So that I can properly explain this realisation, I have waited until the house is quiet and for Alex to go to bed…
The rock
ONCE, I HAD a view across the valley. Green trees with sparkling leaves were home to squawking cockatoos. Once,...
The elephant in the basement
WHEN I STARTED at the museum, the place seemed normal enough. The previous exhibition had just wrapped up, so...
Lost eyes
My eyes are lost in the past. I am hiding in my past, your past, my great-grandfather’s past. Our lost...
Death of the ornithologist
The wind was shunting a heavy storm, with her binoculars she searched for him along the cliffs, he was still...
Genealogy: 2
1983 in the mountains of smoke haze & roads hacked through sandstone, your father declares after trekking alone for hours, he made...
Foxola
It isn’t small – a medium size female and no plaything. To reduce, make diminutive as panting with heat, potential of storms, build...
The space waste
I don’t want to kill everyone’s buzz (Lightyear), but perhaps it’s time to reconsider how much money we waste on space stuff? Given the state of things on Earth, how can we justify (largely performative) space science? As someone who spends a lot of time attempting to make people care about science, this may seem like a strange hill to die on, but I’ve been struggling to quantify how useful millions of dollars of expenditure is proving to the scientific advancement of…what, exactly?
Confessions from a bookstore
What those who work outside of publishing don’t factor in is that, ultimately, bookselling is a niche form of retail work. You are working in a bookshop. The curatorial process is certainly unique, but the basic business premise of a bookshop is that it’s a place of commerce.
Inside it, trying
Savage describes her ideal world as one ‘where the value of creativity was not assessed against the metrics of excellence, institutional legibility, or professional viability’ – where artists ‘did not feel compelled, out of the threat of poverty or social disgrace, to professionalise’.
