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.
I don't know The Kinks latter albums, such as States of Confusion (1983). But the buoyant nostalgia music hall-tinged pop of 'Come Dancing' reaches back to the post-war world of Arthur and the lament of The Village Green Preservation Society for the passing of old-fashioned English traditions.
The song, which I heard on The Ultimate Collection on the hard drive of my PC is about the effects of urban renewal and losing what was once valued (in this case the Ilford Palais ) in a place we live in. This loss from the forces of progress or development means a part of ourselves dies.
They put a parking lot on a piece of land
Where the supermarket used to stand
Before that they put up a bowling alley
On the site that used to be the local Pally
That's where the big bands used to come and play
My sister went there on a Saturday
The day they knocked down the Pally
My sister stood and cried
The day they knocked down the Pally
Part of my childhood died, just died
