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74Australia - Overview of Australia + Australians - A glimpse, a taste, a little music with the wine and the first memory
by AuraGem
Once, Australia was a little like a lost child, pushed into the traffic of distant lands and the whims of waters and sea breezes. But Australia now is building a memory. Here is the first wave of that memory, a little foamy, a little salty, but still a wave coming in to shore. published 9 months ago
72Oddities: Weird bra stories (with a dash of poetry)
by AuraGem
2000 bras strung along a barbed wire fence! Pink bras in a pepper tree! Bra art metamorphoses into gallery art! The ultimate - a Bra Ball! And are bras poetry in motion? published 9 months ago
71Australian Plants - Australian Fairy Grass Ain't No Sweet Fairy (with a dash of poetry)
by AuraGem
Beautiful name but don't be deceived. It flies through the air with the greatest of ease. No spot is sacred from its intrusive flight - not even the outback dunny. It looks like wheat, but lighter in weight -... published 9 months ago
69Australian Poetry - Suburbia - Video Reflections on Bruce Dawe - 1 - "homo suburbiensis"
by AuraGem
Suburbia! A gift or a curse? In 2006, Australian Bruce Dawe released "Sometimes Gladness", a collection of poems connecting universal, ordinary man with the poetry of the soul. I felt moved to create a video of his poem, interpretting the images and the illusions. published 10 months ago
68Australian Desert Art - 1 - "Stone Souls and a Big Bench" - Broken Hill, NSW (with a dash of poetry)
by AuraGem
In 1993, a group of sculptors pooled their skills to create art in the desert. The place was outback NSW, Australia at Broken Hill.The artists involved in the 1993 Sculpture Symposium were: 2 from Mexico, 2 from Syria, 3 from Georgia and 5 Australians. published 10 months ago
66Australian Poetry: Remembering to see with Wings - "The seagull who flies high lives high"
by AuraGem
Take the breath Of the wings of morning Lift your eyes To the canyons Of the skies And fly! published 10 months ago
66Australian Poetry: Relationships and Connections - Video Reflections on Bruce Dawe - 2 - "Distances"
by AuraGem
Modern Australian poet Bruce Dawe is conscious that humanity struggles to find a sense of belonging and identity in 20th to 21st century society. I felt moved to create a video of his insights and a poem of my own. There is space But no bridge There is a voice But no one hears... published 10 months ago
65Australian Desert Art - 2 - "Dark shapes are real people" - Lake Ballard, Western Australia (with a dash of poetry)
by AuraGem
In Western Australia, north of Kalgoorlie, near the 1890's goldfields "ghost" town of Menzies, stand 51 black steel figures; eerie silhouettes on the soft glow of desert dawns and blood red sunsets. UK artist, Antony Gormley, created the statues on Lake Ballard in 2003. published 9 months ago
61Australian Poetry - Stop the Clock! Thief at Large!
by AuraGem
If time is man's desperate attempt to harness space and dimension into some decipherable, controlled unit of measurement, does that mean taking time for self could be theft, indeed a crime? Is time a parkland with pockets signed "No Trespassing"? published 10 months ago
59Australian Poetry - Oddities: A Dial-Up Swan Song
by AuraGem
Remember the days when dial-up was young And the world basked in the new internet sun The old raucous schoolyard Became a room Of marble faces And cold screens And communication was as close As 3 hour linking... published 9 months ago
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