1/ On Grote Street – Lopsided A sculpture by the Central Market An elongated box standing on one corner a time machine a spacecraft to admire to hop into to hope for a different time ‘What happened to the phone box?’ she asks ‘It’s built for lopsided conversations,’ I say for conversations across time and space where the corner of sharpness is buried in the ground forming an unstable base with the elongated box about to topple off unless the sharpness is the point of contention buried in the ground the hatred can no longer bite is no more no more for the benefit of all and the planet a dream an out of space whisper contained within glass pans of a contemporary TARDIS and the doctor -- will she come will she save this earth yet again?
2/ Not a royal nor Grand Victory The Girl on a Slide -John Dowie (SA), Rundle Mall Was published in InDaily Adelaide (9th Feb. 2022) She is joy frozen in time exuberant, bewitching in my photo, her left foot is enormous kicking at phantoms it’s the perspective, though nothing to do with what's real and what's real is a slight sprightly kid cast into bronze, sliding down a slop arms and legs outstretched plaits mirroring limbs, blown in the air she’s enchantment caught in mid-slide in busy Rundle Mall amid the rushing of shoppers she makes me look up to the sky a blue ribbon a pause among concrete giants.
3/ Pigeon (On Rundle Mall, SA) Lonely letters tied to pigeon’s breasts or legs warmed by feathers swept by air some never arrive some were never sent left in sealed envelopes shoved into drawers abandoned in shoe boxes in jars alone or bundled with others a lone letter is found it’s held in trembling hands the envelope is slit open a thin paper is pulled out in reverence (perhaps) a pause she breathes in checking the handwriting while shadows linger on the wall she bends her head a photo slides from between pages followed by a sigh of relief she reads fast rereads slowly and again whispering groaning tears filling her eyes now laughter springs while the hands arthritic and chipped morph into youthful grace.
Loved these photos and how Sara Sims related them – like the “lopsided conversation” with the tilted payphone cabinet. That is very telling and timely. Bravo!