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Category: Visual Diary
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Aerial View of Gardenvale
Not much has changed in the shopping centre by which I grew up. The newsagency may have changed hands and the Macintosh shop been driven out of business (to be replaced by a coffee lounge, of all things), but the unimposing facade and unhurried atmosphere remain. Read more →
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Familiar Fencing
A very familiar breed of fencing guards the steep precipice behind the Gardenvale station platform. The cross-threaded wire is beginning to unwind in several places, a common feature of fences of this age. Read more →
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Hollow Glass Vase
This, the instrument of their conveyance, sits atop a polished wooden mantlepiece, waiting patiently for the stalks it contains – as yet green and firm – to wither and decay. Read more →
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Unripe Tulip
Despite being decidedly superfluous, there is something elegant and agreeable about this unopened tulip. Its buds gradually intensify and the tips of each petal gradually unfurl themselves in an elegant display of colour and impermanence. Read more →