{"id":6792,"date":"2015-01-21T08:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T21:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2015-01-21T08:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T21:38:59","slug":"a-moment-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=6792","title":{"rendered":"A moment in time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today there’s a prompt to show and tell:\u00a0 show the last photo I’ve taken, and tell the story behind that moment in time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I was passing the Civic library where I’ve worked casually as a tutor for a couple of years.\u00a0 There’s something in there that I’ve often wanted to photograph, but when I’m working I’m too busy for such an indulgence, though I sit gazing up at it while my student is busy with his writing exercises.\u00a0 Yesterday it wasn’t a work day, I had my camera, and I had time.<\/p>\n

Here it is, my last photo.\u00a0 It’s of an artwork suspended from the library ceiling, a stripped down Vietnamese boat.\u00a0 The oars are long golden arms and hands pushing through the air, while a pair of eyes on the prow watches where the boat is going.\u00a0 The artist, Nerine Martini of Sydney, created the work during an artist residency in Vietnam in 2006 and has exhibited it in Vietnam on a lake (on a stand in the water) and at outdoor sculpture exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne.\u00a0 The design of the Civic library is ideal for hanging a long object in the high-ceilinged space above the ground floor, up there at the mezzanine level where we can lean over the railing and look into the boat.\u00a0 The golden hands, each with a different gesture, reach out to the viewer;\u00a0 it was tempting to reach my own hand out to touch one.\u00a0 I didn’t.<\/p>\n

\"Lifeboat:
Lifeboat: Thuyen Cuu Roi by Nerine Martini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was an odd moment finally seeing the boat up close, as pleasurable as I expected it to be.\u00a0 But up on the mezzanine level where I took an earlier photo (see my header), as I leaned over the rail I was aware of a tutor at a table behind me teaching four students.\u00a0 I knew her.\u00a0 She was enjoying the interaction with her group, so I studied the boat for some moments and then I turned to her and quietly said “Hi, Jenny”.\u00a0 Although I have known her for five years, she looked at me blankly.\u00a0 I most uncomfortably interrupted her class to explain our connection as tutors.\u00a0 “Your face looks vaguely familiar,” she said.<\/p>\n

I left the library feeling fulfilled but forgettable.\u00a0\u00a0 Not so the rugged beauty of the Lifeboat.<\/p>\n

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Today there’s a prompt to show and tell:\u00a0 show the last photo I’ve taken, and tell the story behind that moment in time. Yesterday I was passing the Civic library where I’ve worked casually as a tutor for a couple of years.\u00a0 There’s something in there that I’ve often wanted to photograph, but when I’m … <\/p>\n

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