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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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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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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Making it up as we go
I have a close personal connection to the local history museum, my grandparents – Arthur and Nell Quilford – were founding members of what has come to be known as the Wonthaggi and District Historical Society
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