Fingerprints, whispers and echoes
Speculative Polaroid of a wildlife trail through a natural soak near Cape Paterson’s 2nd Surf (38°40’25.7″S 145°36’21.9″E) with audio of the same watercourse, birdsong and the ocean.
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Swipe right for BEFORE and AFTER
Speculative Polaroid of the rock platform near Cape Paterson’s F-Break (38°40’06.5″S 145°35’30.3″E) combined with a recording of the mechanism of a Polaroid OneStep600 camera.
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Photo failure
peculative Polaroid of Cape Paterson’s First Surf and a recording of water flowing off the cliff line at night.
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The path to uncertainty
Speculative Polaroid of the walking track to Cape Paterson’s Bay Beach (38°40’24.2″S 145°37’07.3″E) and audio of walking the same path.
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Jagged shore
Speculative Polaroid of the ocean at Cape Paterson’s Bay Beach (38°40’25.7″S 145°37’12.1″E) with audio of wind and the ocean at the same location.
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Indistinct boundaries
Speculative Polaroid of a roadside sign on Wilson’s Road at Cape Paterson (38°38’53.7″S 145°36’04.3″E) with audio of cars traversing the same byway.
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Sea-level horizon
A speculative Polaroid and audio speculation on an uncertain ocean horizon at Cape Paterson’s F-Break Beach.
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One doesn’t arrive by knowing where one is going
A speculative Polaroid and audio speculation on the aesthetic and creative benefits of embracing uncertainty at Cape Paterson’s Bay Beach.
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‘Adrift in shallow waters: 92 days of winter’ mixed media essay
Every day of that first arduous COVID winter, Rees Quilford dived into the bracing cold of Bass Strait, took a Polaroid photo, and documented his thoughts. The resulting essay has won the 2021 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction.
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A Diary of Place: ’92 Days of Winter’ Polaroid Portraits
A gallery of my Polaroid portraits of Cape Paterson’s Bay Beach compiled each day of our first COVID winter.
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92 Days of Winter Audio/Polaroid/Prose Speculations
A collection of audio/polaroid/prose speculations on days spent at Cape Paterson’s Bay Beach during the COVID winter of 2020.
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About 92 Days of Winter
A mixed media experiment in the embodied documentation of a local and personally familiar place – Cape Paterson’s Bay Beach.
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Second swim
It’s stinking hot – 41 degrees here, 43 plus in the city. The drive from the Wonthaggi Museum to Cape Paterson’s Bay Beach is sticky and uncomfortable. I long for the cool relief of the water. It will be my second swim for the day.
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