Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
A dust storm rolled into Sydney and then Brisbane this morning turning it orange--a red dawn This was interpreted as Life on Mars apocalypse along the eastern seaboard.
The dust storm had its origins in South Australia, where extremely dry conditions throughout the interior of the country along with strong winds provided the perfect recipe for the dust storm. It moved east to Broken Hill, where the dust and the 100 km winds caused a blackout:
These levels of natural dust cause eye irritations in many people, and particulate pollution in which the fine particles are hazardous to the health of fit and unfit persons alike.
Tom Coates has curated a Red Dust Gallery on Flickr of the dust storm in Sydney:
So what does all that dust from the topsoil infer about the way that we care for the land? It indicates that there has been both an erosion of the country's farmable soil and a growing desertification of the landscape.
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