Landscapes of Loss
Landscapes of loss Polaroid and prose speculation.
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Tag: polaroid
Imprecise Speculation on the Happenings of the Bunurong Coast
A compilation of fragmented narratives capturing fleeting moments, elusive characteristics and the transient allusions that abound on the Bunurong Coast.
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Scorched earth
Speculative Polaroid of a wildlife trail in the Wreck Beach dunes (38°39’39.4″S 145°34’54.9″E) and audio of listening to the fire, the ocean, insects and frogsong at a nearby bush campsite.
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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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A process for unmapping
Speculative Polaroid of an 1882 geological map with audio of walking through the scrub of Wreck Beach Farm.
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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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An environment being consumed by nothingness
A speculative Polaroid of the Wreck Beach bay (38°39’35.1″S 145°34’51.2″E) combined with audio of heavy rain.
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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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Uncomfortable objects
A Polaroid provocation examination of Aboriginal tools and artifacts sitting uncomfortably in the glass cabinets of a local history museum.
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Natural flows and breached boundaries
A speculative Polaroid combined with audio of walking through water at Wreck Beach.
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The Middens of Wreck Beach
I have vivid memories of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung midden sites at Wreck Beach from when I was a kid in (the mid-1980s). At that time, two different walking paths ran from the carpark through the scrub down to the beach.
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Spanning cultural disjunctures
A speculative image/prose speculation of navigating cultural disjunctures on the Bunurong Coast.
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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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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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154 degrees southeast
Finally, I reach my resolution, choose a desk. One angled 154 degrees southeast. One facing the backdrop for the content and landscape I interrogate.
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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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The Same Aspect (layered amalgam)
An attempt at creating layered mixed-media articulations of intimate place-based connections and creative inclinations shared across generations.
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A Trail in the Ground (layered amalgam #1)
Early attempts at layered mixed-media articulations of the complex implications that can be read into the marks and features encrypted into the ground.
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Collecting Samphire with JQ
Samphire is bush tucker, a native succulent also known as sea asparagus, sea beans or swamp grass. It grows on the waterway verges across southern Australia and can be found at any number of places around these parts.
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Observation exercise
Pick a road or a track, could be one that you’ve driven a thousand times before. One you’ll likely drive
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The rationale for Otherwise Unrecounted
After a day spent browsing cluttered filing cabinets and listening to snippets of oral histories in the Wonthaggi Historical Society
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Anticipation and anxiety
Scorching hot today, 41 degrees here in Wonthaggi. Must be roasting in the city. The museum – in the old railway station building – is surprisingly cool. Perhaps it’s the asbestos.
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A personal reading of the memoryscope
A mixed-media personal reading of the characteristics I have identified in Ross Gibson’s memoryscope construct.
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A trail in the ground (image/text vignette)
A series of speculative sketches on the various meanings that can be read into a trail left in the ground.
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The Same Aspect
My grandmother assumed this aspect nearly forty years previous – easel, paint, tea in a thermos perhaps, two-year-old Easter eggs for sure.
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Carparks and frivolous placemaking?
Trailing the dog, I jog into the beach side carpark in the early autumn dusk. The place is typical of Bass Coast’s remote beaches, a secluded patch of gravel cut into the scrubby dunes.
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