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Category: <span>The country</span>

Category: The country

A Bourgeoise New Year

I greeted in the new year with a picnic in the gardens at Heidi Museum of Modern Art. There is an exhibition of Louise Bourgeoise’s late works together with some Australian contemporary works by the likes of Kathryn Del Barton. Louise Bourgeoise’s art is much more feminine than I imagined it would be. From artbooks I had pictured a fierce dogmatic feminist harshness to her work. Instead in the needle-point and stitching I sensed a softness and a vulnerability that made the works more creepybeautiful and more real. The delicacy of the materials and the work is contrasted by the …

Puffing Billy and what’s wrong with Australian tourism

I had a great day out with the family on the weekend. We took a ride on the wonderfully steam-punk and daggy Puffing Billy train through the Yarra Ranges. It was the first train ride for the kids and they responded well to the chug-a-chug up the hills, the rattling, the smoke, and the intimacy of being able to touch the trees and observe the hills people hanging out their washing or burning off leaves (a favourite hills pass time). As expected the train was packed with tourists all dangling their legs out the windows, determined to get the maximum …

No one should get left behind

I live in a beautiful place on the edge of the city. We’re on the edge of a forest and have a view out west over the city and to the You Yangs and the ocean beyond. Unfortunately it is also an area prone to bush fires. We have only been there a short time and this summer have evacuated 3 times. A guy I met last night has been there a month and evacuated 3 times. This is the reality of living in such a beautiful spot in the Australian bush. A worthy sacrifice for not living in the …