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Grey country, 26 May 2020

Two stories today came from university teachers in visual art who are overwhelmed with Zoom meetings and anxious students. The students do not turn on their video so that they appear as a black box on the screen. The intricate dynamics of face to face is lost, and sometimes the sound is blurred. For people used to 'hands on' teaching with materials the Zoom classes bring on a frustrated anger.  The landscape out the window and the Corinthian capital offers a retreat from human dificulty in mist and rain, with a heavy sea rumbling in the distance.The column capital is part of the archive of European forms that was brought here, seen in the porticos of banks and museums. Its stony spirals and curving acanthus leaves remember another kind of country. The archive of the Illawarra is held in earth and landforms, and oral stories; cloudy and diffuse to Anglo eyes. 


 

 

Diana Wood Conroy 'Grey Country', watercolour on Arches paper 15 x 21 cm, 26 May 2020

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