Never Been Abroad

Country: Australia

Australia is the far corner of the atlas — the harbour at Sydney and the glass-and-surf strip of the Gold Coast, pictures I have held for years without ever standing before them.

  • Charcoal sketch of a wide changeable sky over the low Melbourne city, half bright and half storm, tram wires across the foreground and a thin line of the bay - never been abroad

    Melbourne

    Melbourne is the city I have built almost entirely out of weather and side streets — a place that changes its mind four times before lunch.

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  • Charcoal sketch of the sail-roofed opera house and the great arched harbour bridge across a wide harbour, ferries low on the water, headlands beyond - never been abroad

    Sydney

    Sydney sits on the far underside of the planet — the longest flight there is, the seasons and the stars turned upside down. I dream of it for the distance alone.

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