![Australian author Danielle Celemajer's thought-provoking tour #TalbotRice included readings from her book 'Summertime: Reflections on a vanishing future', which asks us to “look around [and] become present to all beings who are living and dying through the loss of our shared home.” #TheRecent <br /><br />👀 Keep your eyes peeled for future TRG Friday lunch-time tours!<br /><br />💬 "I understand that Katie is seeking to find a way past what we might call ‘the seduction of the image” – to get to us through smell, that most irrational, irreducible of our senses; the sense that has us experience ourselves not only in another place, but sometimes in another time – a childhood memory, a memory of connection, or love, or loss, or all of them. And through smell, not only to be present to loss, but also to love and the attachment that might have us wish to act in solidarity with the threatened." #KatiePaterson #ToBurnForestFire<br /><br />💬 "How humans act now will be laid down in the geological record. To even think time this way [...]– and to do that in ethical terms demands of us a stretching of our imaginations and our sense of self. What is it to experience ourselves at that intersection? We meet ourselves there, perhaps when we stand in front of one of these mirrors." #MikalaDwyer #Diamonds<br /><br />💬 "Looking at this piece of work, I am struck by the apparent paradox between something as light and ephemeral as rain, and the permanence of these impressions across time. This again takes me back to questions I raised earlier about the difficulties of coming to terms with, with grasping changes that can be so momentous, that can in fact change the geological record, but that in other ways, seem so fleeting." #AngelicaMesiti #TheRainThatFellInTheFaintLightOfTheYoungSun <br /><br />#TheRecent<br />#TalbotRice<br />#DanielleCelemajer<br />#FridayTour](/img/aHR0cHM6Ly9zY29udGVudC5jZG5pbnN0YWdyYW0uY29tL3YvdDUxLjI4ODUtMTUvMzY5NzYyNTg2XzM1NDQ3NTYzNzA4NzEyMV84Njk1NjQ2MzM2MTIzNzU2Mjc0X24uanBnP3N0cD1kc3QtanBnX2UzNV9wMTA4MHgxMDgwJl9uY19odD1zY29udGVudC5jZG5pbnN0YWdyYW0uY29tJl9uY19jYXQ9MTA5Jl9uY19vaGM9VXBjQkVBOWRhOElRN2tOdmdFLUQzR18mZWRtPUFQczE3Q1VCQUFBQSZjY2I9Ny01Jm9oPTAwX0FZQTVCTXk2VXpTeUxpZ0JxTzNIV283SHdnWWd2eVdWMlk4OGxrTGNCSUlHU0Emb2U9NjY0QTMwMkQmX25jX3NpZD0xMGQxM2I=.jpg)
Australian author Danielle Celemajer's thought-provoking tour #TalbotRice included readings from her book 'Summertime: Reflections on a vanishing future', which asks us to “look around [and] become present to all beings who are living and dying through the loss of our shared home.” #TheRecent
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for future TRG Friday lunch-time tours!
💬 "I understand that Katie is seeking to find a way past what we might call ‘the seduction of the image” – to get to us through smell, that most irrational, irreducible of our senses; the sense that has us experience ourselves not only in another place, but sometimes in another time – a childhood memory, a memory of connection, or love, or loss, or all of them. And through smell, not only to be present to loss, but also to love and the attachment that might have us wish to act in solidarity with the threatened." #KatiePaterson #ToBurnForestFire
💬 "How humans act now will be laid down in the geological record. To even think time this way [...]– and to do that in ethical terms demands of us a stretching of our imaginations and our sense of self. What is it to experience ourselves at that intersection? We meet ourselves there, perhaps when we stand in front of one of these mirrors." #MikalaDwyer #Diamonds
💬 "Looking at this piece of work, I am struck by the apparent paradox between something as light and ephemeral as rain, and the permanence of these impressions across time. This again takes me back to questions I raised earlier about the difficulties of coming to terms with, with grasping changes that can be so momentous, that can in fact change the geological record, but that in other ways, seem so fleeting." #AngelicaMesiti #TheRainThatFellInTheFaintLightOfTheYoungSun
#TheRecent
#TalbotRice
#DanielleCelemajer
#FridayTour