02.05.1955 /
shadows

The cold transparent blue of the ice plateau
has become a softer blue opalescence.
Clefts and hollows in the ice cliffs have lost the glowing almost radiant blueness
and become dark shadows.

COMMENTS

Working with Lisa and Yoris
we responded to this diary entry
by Jack Ward,
Mawson diary
2 April 1955.

Lisa read we moved Yoris read I moved Lisa documented

In response I moved through the words,
imagining the description,
being part of the words,
being part of the vista,
looking at the landscape,
the words, the vista,
flowing in and out.

I began to remember the movement
and thus the words.
My body remembered the movement
and began to pre-empted the words,
began to repeat without thinking.

Then my response in words:

cold stiller
angular inside
yet hollows rounded as voice
draw with body
see far the plateau
sun changes
cold transparent blue
soft opalescence
lost radiance
colder stiller
Dickson

The body has memory as well as the brain.

Christine McMillan
Symmetrical Planting
http://symmetricalplanting.blogspot.com/search/label/Artists
2008-01-20