Hi Doug,
Glad you liked the end. (And I'm glad to be home.)
I'm sure you're right about Rover Thomas - until people all over get to
know his work. The other works in the particular exhibition were by
Robert Irwin, Edvard Munch, Ann Hamilton and Wolfgang Laib. The
Hepworth was elsewhere in the gallery.
Cheers,
Jill
On Friday, February 25, 2005, at 02:03 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Oh, I like that ending, Jill,
>
> & the connect between Rothko & Thomas (although that one might work
> only for Aussies & the few of us who have been there & sen the
> latter's work... (I assume the former & others were there for a
> special show?).
>
> I remember the Doctor well, & also how the people of Perth I met felt
> cold in June (wearing sweaters under jackets etc), while Sharon & I
> were sweating (20-22 degrees being warm enough for us)...
>
> Doug
> On 24-Feb-05, at 4:42 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
>
>> 1. Perth
>>
>> The Doctor is in, blowing
>> its cold Indian breath
>> along Adelaide Terrace
>> and over the phosphor of the Swan.
>>
>> There’s Saturday night’s slabs
>> and plastic wrap at lamp posts
>> broken jewels at the grating.
>> A Holden hums at the lights.
>>
>> The generator plant next door creaks
>> trees at the car park edge
>> blow like clouds of smoke
>> to my muddy eye near midnight.
>> The ABC tower interrupts water views
>> and the sky is padded with cloud.
>>
>> It’s too hot for a festival.
>> My aircon pushes the cold nicely
>> and you’d rather it than
>> sweat between breast and brain.
>>
>> The concert tonight was a lot of
>> percussion and water and knew
>> when to crescendo.
>>
>> Today I got as close to
>> the Rothkos as allowed.
>> His paint drips upwards
>> and the colours float
>> but seem kin to Rover Thomas’s
>> language dots, ochres
>> and black Lake Paraku
>> across the way.
>>
>> There’s these notes
>> about Transcendence
>> but all around, smell the heat
>> touch the windy present
>> or it touches you.
>>
>> I put my head in Hepworth
>> hear a rushing of metal time, air
>> and the stilled.
>>
>> 2. Adelaide
>>
>> Change is moving across the continent.
>> You can follow on TV.
>> The weather page isobars wriggle
>> and colours eternally change.
>>
>> The first whiff of cold is at the East End
>> waiting for the free bus
>> sky becoming crowded and breezy.
>>
>> And like the weather
>> I leave a trail of myself
>> all along the way
>> though time zones and deserts
>> dust me up
>> and unsteadily breathe me
>> into nameless minutes
>> belonging to no-one.
>>
>>
>> Jill Jones
>> Snapped Feb 19-23 2005, Perth and Adelaide
>>
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>
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