{"id":6126,"date":"2014-08-10T03:50:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2014-08-10T03:50:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T16:50:43","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-texture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=6126","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge: Texture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judy Watson, an indigenous artist, created this sculpture, Fire and Water<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s textural…<\/p>\n

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Fire and Water, Judy Watson, Reconciliation Place, Canberra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You’ll find it in Reconciliation Place, Canberra, where there are a number of sculptures by Aboriginal artists.\u00a0 Since this particular artwork is called Fire and Water<\/em>, I’d always thought the grey object amid the fiery reeds represented a seal or dugong.\u00a0 But on closer inspection today, I saw it’s not an animal, but a stone.\u00a0 A gathering stone.\u00a0 Muted sounds are constantly playing through small holes all over it, representing bogong moths flying in on their annual migration and people gathering to feast on them.\u00a0 Michael Hewes designed the sound.<\/p>\n

Looking between the two stands of rusty reeds, we see the National Library, one of my favourite haunts.\u00a0 In this wintry season, the reeds echo the hibernating poplars in the library forecourt.\u00a0 At the moment I took this photo, two jets in the fountain were working.\u00a0 That was just luck;\u00a0 the fountain is not always turned on.\u00a0 The elements in the photo are a great example of symmetry in this city of many symmetries.<\/p>\n

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National Library of Australia and “Fire and Water” sculpture by Judy Watson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bogong moths pass through Canberra every year in about September.\u00a0 Last year they were in plague proportions, congregating on many of the national institutions in the parliamentary triangle, and particularly in Parliament House.\u00a0 At night they’re attracted to the powerfully lit flagpole on top of the House.\u00a0 We all had moths flying and dying in our homes, which was annoying for those of us who don’t eat them.<\/p>\n

Since we’re thinking of texture for this week’s photo challenge, take a look at this image from another Canberra photographer, Donald Hobern, of a bogong with its fluffy head and carpet-like wings.\u00a0 When they land on tree bark they’re well camouflaged.\u00a0 But I can tell you, while one individual moth might look beautiful in a close-up, a crowd of brown, fluttering moths resting up in a corner of your room is not attractive.\u00a0 But thanks to Judy Watson’s sculpture, I learnt that they’re edible, and even delicious, and I was reminded once again that nothing is completely ugly or useless.<\/p>\n

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Photo of bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) courtesy of Donald Hobern<\/a>, Canberra, Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Take a look at more textures on the WordPress photo challenge <\/a>page for this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judy Watson, an indigenous artist, created this sculpture, Fire and Water.\u00a0 It’s textural… You’ll find it in Reconciliation Place, Canberra, where there are a number of sculptures by Aboriginal artists.\u00a0 Since this particular artwork is called Fire and Water, I’d always thought the grey object amid the fiery reeds represented a seal or dugong.\u00a0 But … <\/p>\n

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