Glowing

Apr. 15th, 2009 09:18 pm
Cape Otway Lightstation
Cape Otway Lightstation
It was dark to start with as they walked through the forest that night, and they remembered each other, six months ago, looking for caves, looking for brightness. It stayed dark that time and they found nothing.

On Sunday though, they were in Melba Gully, and it was then that things were different: they saw the forest glowing, little dots of light, like stars. They gazed for a while at the glow-worms, surprised at just how bright they really were.
Melbourne was a surreal city. The people moved around the streets in jitters, like they were people that weren't quite whole, like there were a few different realities converging in the streets of Melbourne, and on the trains and roads with cars that shimmered in and out of existence. I knew this before I arrived in Melbourne.

(I had wandered into an art gallery in Christchurch, New Zealand and saw videos of Melbourne in the Daniel Crooks: everywhere instantly exhibition, just before I flew to Melbourne. Soon I should actually begin to explore Melbourne and see if it really is like the videos.

Christchurch's art in public places was a little bit stranger.. In the main square existed a giant purple sperm with a bed inside it, and outside the Arts Centre, a petrol engine memorial park, with cars due to die draped in wreaths of dead leaves.)

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