“What are you doing that for?” he said.
“To make people think” J replied, “and make their own meaning.”
He paused for a second, then said “you know in the 30s there was this fellow who used to write the word Eternity in chalk on the pavement. He did it for years all over Sydney, the same word over and over again.”
“That’s one of the ideas behind this work” J said enthusiastically.
“I could think of better things to do with my time” he answered. “But it was nice talking to you” he said as he walked away.
Pacifist tourists, the big new threat
“Under the present expansive and ill-defined terms “terrorist” and “security threat”, ordinary Australians organising or participating in rallies, protests or public meetings could potentially be investigated by ASIO.”
By Brian Walters – The Age – 13th September
The artist reflects on her own practice.
“They never do it in the daytime otherwise they’d get caught” she said. ” Yes” he replied. “You wake up in the morning and the street’s full of rubbish again.”
Found: Robe St, St Kilda
J had just finished taking a photo of the mattress when a guy pulled up in the car.
He had a quizzical look on his face so she decided to ask him, “what do you think it means?”
He replied “I’ve been trying to work that out”. And then added, “yesterday it just said ‘you never think it will happen to you’ and then today somebody else has added ‘Then one day it does'”.
“I reckon it’s a couple splitting up and they have both written different things.”
And then he added, “I’m going to take a photo too”.
