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Tag Archives: psychogeography
Edgelands
I’m on my way to visit my mother but I’m early. I don’t want to interrupt her while she’s watching her favourite soapie, the one I’ve dubbed Italian Doctors in Love, so I decide to take a detour. I get … Continue reading
Get On Your Soap Box
This summer, as you enjoy Christmas carols or the symphony in the Domain, see if you can also spot an old time orator on their soap box in Speaker’s Corner. The tradition of Speaker’s Corner comes to us from London’s Hyde Park, … Continue reading
Posted in democracy, Spirit of Place, Time
Tagged 1932, 1975, communism, Debra Phillips, Egon Kisch, free speech, Gough Whitlam, Governor Game, Governor General Kerr, H.V.Evatt, High Court, Hitler, John Webster, Menzies, Moreton Bay figs, NAZIS, Premier Jack Lang, psychogeography, Reichstag fire, Reverend Bill Crews, Speaker's Corner, Sydney Botanic Gardens, The Domain, Viva Voce’ Soap-Box sculpture
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Walking The Goods Line
I like walking. Now. As an adult it has led me through lush woodland and native forest, along rugged cliff tops that overlook the wild blue ocean and into cosmopolitan quarters of our rich city that I didn’t even know existed. Walking takes … Continue reading
Spirit of Place: Redfern Park
There is a beautiful fountain in Redfern Park. It’s called Lotus Line and children run through it squealing with delight. Dogs, however, stand at its edge staring in puzzlement at the spot where the water shot out and smacked them on … Continue reading
Posted in Spirit of Place
Tagged 1967 Referendum, Aboriginal life expectancy, Aboriginal right to vote, Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples, biami, Close The Gap, Fiona Foley, John Baptist, Kevin Rudd, land rights, Mabo, Paul Keating, Prime Minsiter, psychogeography, Recognition Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution., Redfern Oval, Redfern Park, Redfern speech, Redfern Town Hall, Sorry, Terra Nullius
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“They do not love us as much as we love them”
Do animals make statues of us? Why do we make statues of them? Why do we make statues? Perhaps to represent, remember, immortalise, inspire? I guess humans make statues, like humans make art. But why statues of animals? Animals have … Continue reading
Posted in Habitat, Spirit of Place, The Animal Kingdom
Tagged Animal statues, Art, Cafe Trim, Circular Quay, Dog statue, Herald Square, Il Porcellino, Islay, John Laws, Matthew Flinders, psychogeography, Queen Victoria Builsing, Queen Victoria's Dog, Quenn Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens statues, statues, Sydney architecture, Sydney heritage, Sydney Hospital pig, Sydney walking tour, Sydney walks, The Tank Steam, The Tank Stream Fountain, Trim the cat
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The Cunning Peasant Never Reveals His Sources
I’ve done a lot of food foraging in my time but it’s usually of the domestic variety. You know, my mothers’ freezer or pantry. So I was a little surprised to recently find myself bent over double, holding a knife in … Continue reading
Posted in Experiments with Food, My Mother and Me
Tagged A Year in Provence, anarchist hippie, budget emergency, chicory, dog poo, eat local, free food, good life abroad, harvest, hippie, homemade wine, Italy, living sustainably, local produce, olive oil, parks, peasant food, preserves, psychogeography, rabbit food, rabbits, seasonal food, sel sufficiency, Sicily, sustainability, urban foraging, wet the beds, wild food, wild greens, wild weeds
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The Service Station Vintage
Me: Where do the grapes come from? Mum: The service station. My parents were wine-making Italians but not the squish it between your toes in a concrete bathtub types. We left that level of authenticity to our inner city cousins. … Continue reading
The Spirit of Place 2
Here are five more places that make my city spirit soar. Some of them beautifully juxtapose time and place, others blood and survival; reminding us of the price of civilisation. In all of them, our souls connect to water, trees, … Continue reading
Posted in Spirit of Place, Time
Tagged amphitheatre, Koori, Mckell Park, Moreton Bay figs, Museum of Sydney, Newport Beach, Northern Beaches, NSW Government House, oratory, philosophy, politics, psychogeography, red ladder, religion music festival, sculpture, soapbox, Sydney Harbour, The Domain, The Wharf Theatre
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The Spirit of Place
I love the experience of being in a wild place: the sight of a vast ocean, the smell of a eucalyptus forest, or the feel of lichen under my hand as I sit on a warm boulder at the edge of an … Continue reading
Posted in Spirit of Place
Tagged Canberra, enchanted places, Harbour swimming, Murray Rose Pool, Old Parliament House, psychogeography, Red Leaf Gardens, Red Leaf pool, Royal Botanic Gardens, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney University, The Herb Garden, The Mitchell Library, The Musem of Australian Democracy, The Quadrangle
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