I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral
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My favourite collection was the human teeth collection made into sculptures.
What I want to know is why this was published in a newspaper on the opposite side of the globe but never made it to the local press here?
Collecting ephemera is a legitimate means of preserving the first aspect of an era to be forgotten: common culture. It's often a more accurate reflection of life as lived by real people than the high art of the same period.
Take another look. There's some cool stuff you may never have noticed before. I bet your photographer's eye will be surprised.
The D in D & T, an award? Very nice. I will have to blog on that SOON!
Gerard, I saw that story and reckon that those girls deserve a medal and front page for their actions. It is disappointing to hear that it was not reported in the place that it happened. But that's the press I guess, why report a positive story when you could complain and emphasise the negatives?
FF, I will be honest and say that I avoid The Collectors because I have had dealings with an 'expert' (HA!) on the show in the past (I had an office right next door to him), and I cannot stand the arrogant, smug pratt. In his defence (!?!), he is FAR worse in person than on TV. Can you guess who?
Grocer, strewth indeed.